For The Love of Politics
WW’s endorsement page-turner has all the candidates worth falling for this election.
November 18th, 2009
Randyland, Part II | WW examines whether Randy Leonard is using his power to benefit downtown’s largest private property owner.82 comments
November 11th, 2009
Randyland | With the Mayor sidelined, Leonard takes over.98 comments
October 28th, 2009
Natural Selection11 comments
October 21st, 2009
Left Out | Why are two virtually identical eighth-grade girls treated so differently by Portland Public Schools?56 comments
October 14th, 2009
Who Took Our Jobs? | Oregon’s unemployment is at the top of the charts—again. Here’s why.90 comments
October 7th, 2009
Text Appeal | On the eve of the city’s biggest literary blowout, we hounded Wordstock authors with the questions that really matter. And some that don’t.0 comments
September 30th, 2009
Censored | The ten biggest stories ignored by the major media.22 comments
September 23rd, 2009
Meet Dr. Know | Got a question? Ask our new brainiac. 12 comments
September 16th, 2009
Modest Mouseketeers | His band rules the world, so why is Isaac Brock starting from scratch with two obscure Portland bands? 14 comments
September 9th, 2009
It’s Not My Fault | What people will say to get out of a Portland parking ticket.31 comments
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[April 30th, 2008]
Change. Experience. Change. Experience.
We’ve heard these two poll-tested words so often during the past month by candidates from the presidency on down that our hair hurts.
During that time, we’ve hauled political hopefuls into our office, grilled them with questions that were nasty, naughty and necessary (“Where would you cut the budget? What have you ever done to justify such a leadership position? How can you prove your independence? What kind of tattoo would you get?”) That’s all to give you, our dear readers, a clear sense of who deserves your support as you get your ballots this week for the May 20 primary. And while all of the candidates said they represent change, or experience, or both, we tried to delve deeper.
As we survey the current political landscape, we feel an urge to reach for the Maker’s Mark—a White House so venal it makes the Harding administration look like Lincoln’s cabinet, a Congress unfit to stop the war, a state Legislature that’s sat by while Oregon plummeted from its perch as a national innovator, and a city where “visioning” has become a verb.
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Yet our process of meeting these folks did give us an audacious sense of, can we say it? Hope.
Many of the candidates were smart, dedicated, earnest and convinced us they were willing to work hard for largely poor wages.
All in all, this election has been one hell of a novel. Here’s how we’d write the last chapter.
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