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BY CASEY JARMAN, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER, ROBERT HAM, WHITNEY HAWKE, MATTHEW GRAHAM AND TONY PIFF
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NEWS 9/03/2008
WWIRE: NEWS
[September 5th 4:53pm]
Lunch & Munch With PPS Supernintendo Carole Smith

Portland Public Schools superintendent Carole Smith closed the first week of the school year with a speech at the weekly Portland City Club...

[September 5th 8:50am]
“Cocaine" For Sale in Southeast Portland

Located in Southeast Portland on 50th and Foster, The Smoke Shack’s storefront sign has attracted the attention of our always attentive WW...

[September 5th 8:37am]
Portland Medics Arrested Outside Republican National Convention

It turns out some of the medical workers I wrote about here (in the photo above, they were helping activists who had been sprayed with...

[September 4th 3:26pm]
P:ear unveils new art center for homeless youth tonight.

On an afternoon last week, before the Old Town reopening of local nonprofit p:ear, local musician and volunteer Sarah Dougher sat in a...

[September 1st 11:15pm]
STREETS OF ST. PAUL: Minnesota Mayhem, pt. 1

Some new numbers are in. According to local media, 10,000 people were at the Capitol in St. Paul to protest against the War in Iraq during the...

[August 29th 4:44pm]
Merkley: Rhymes With Barkley?

Following Jeff Merkley's condemnation of robocalls and subsequent embrace of them, we have this tangentially related...

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FEATURES
[Congress]
Congressional Cribs
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[Education]
Back To Fool
BY BETH SLOVIC | For dozens of Portland students, going back to school means shopping for books and clothes … And P.E. credits?
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[Election '08] [Politics]
Losing Faith
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | A young Marine finds his candidate in Denver.
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[Bicycling] [Courts]
DIY Justice
BY COREY PEIN | In Oregon, The Man lets you be The Man, too. Here’s how to play traffic cop.
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[Consumer]
The Coffee Files
BY ANNA DUKEHART | That daily cup of joe is burning a hole in your gut. What about your wallet?
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[Election '08]
The Party Is in the Lobby
BY NIGEL JAQUISS | Oregon Democrats descend on Denver looking for change they can believe in—with help from corporate friends.
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[Neighborhoods]
Bar Fight
BY COREY PEIN | The restaurant lobby butts heads with Portland neighborhoods.
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Skipper’s Castaways
BY JAMES PITKIN | New county sheriff keeps the crew from Giusto’s three-hour tour.
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[Healthcare]
Life and Death in Washington
BY PAULA L. STEPANKOWSKY | Call it “death with dignity” or “assisted suicide,” Washington preps for Initiative 1000 — with Oregon’s help.
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[Dead Presidents]
Incorrect Change
BY HANNAH HULTINE | A new coin buys anger instead of bus fare.
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COLUMNS
Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
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The Score
Elephants Suffer, On All Fronts.
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
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Murmurs
News That’s Pregnant When Teenagers Are, Too.
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Rogue of the Week
Mayor Tom Potter
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Fool me twice.
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SCOOP
Gossip should have no friends
WW EDITORIAL STAFF
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Letters to the Editor
Inbox
BY WW'S BELOVED READERS
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The Score
Taking Your Share and Then Some
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Murmurs
Hope. Change. Capitalism. Barbed Wire.
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Rogue of the Week
Sue Castner
WW EDITORIAL STAFF | Serious Party Foul.
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