Last week, WW introduced Portland to the Bond family, who now have a Douglas fir where their second-story bathroom used to be. The story quickly became a sensation, in no small part because the city’s Urban Forestry division had denied the Bonds a permit to cut down the tree before it fell, and then demanded the family obtain a permit to remove the stump (“Schrödinger’s Cat,” Jan. 24). By the weekend, most local news outlets had discovered the Bonds, or similar tales, and on Jan. 30, City Commissioner Dan Ryan waived all tree removal and replanting fees stemming from the storm. Here’s what our readers had to say: