Winners

1.The Portland Fellowship, a group claiming that God can help homosexuals go straight, got some divine intervention last week when a front-page Oregonian story about Portland's gay-rights ordinance jumped to an inside page opposite the group's full-page ad.

2.Oregon Steel strikers at the company's Pueblo, Colo., plant organized a march at its home base in downtown Portland this week, bringing out 300 people from sympathetic local unions like AFSCME and OPEU. Non-union Oregon Steel locals also marched, to show solidarity with strikers at the Pueblo plant who are angry about mandatory overtime, pension issues and Oregon Steel's use of strike replacement workers.

3. Readers of TheSeattle Times continue to benefit from the northbound exodus from The Oregonian. Last week former Oregonian arts writer Melanie McFarland set up shop at the Times as a columnist and writer for the paper's new weekly entertainment section.

Losers

1. Just weeks after radio ads lauded Sen.Ron Wyden for his vote to cut federal subsidies for logging roads, the Portland Democrat is being criticized by OSPIRG and the Sierra Club for his endorsement of a weaker version of the Endangered Species Act, now poised for a vote in Congress. An OSPIRG press release issued this week says, "This is the most significant attack on the Endangered Species Act in years."

2.Business Week reports this week that Intel may end up paying a pretty penny to settle the patent lawsuit filed against it by Digital Equipment Co. earlier this year. Intel reportedly is negotiating to pay $650 million for Digital's chip plant, where it will make chips under contract to Digital. Intel may also pay Digital up to $200 million for the right to certain contested Digital patents. Meanwhile, Digital would get discounts on Intel processors.

3. Long under fire for providing patrons too much video poker and not enough food, Dotty's Delis may have lost an important ally. "What happens to Dotty's is not really my concern," says Bill Perry, a lobbyist for the Oregon Restaurant Association. "I'm concerned about the industry as a whole." It might help if Dotty's paid the ORA's special lottery assessment that's supposed to go on top of its regular dues.