Dr. Know City Council just gave the Rose Festival big discounts on city fees as Portland’s “official” festival. To justify that, Randy Leonard’s blog claims the Rose Festival generate ...   More

Dr. Know How do I get my question used in Dr. Know? Why do I have to sign myself with a name and an initial? Are these questions even real? —Joe the BummerWell, this one isn’t. But for an imag ...   More

Dr. Know Does PDX have full-body scanners like the ones the Dutch are required to use for passengers to the U.S.? More importantly, can they see us naked?—Jaymee C., PortlandIf you’d been through ...   More

Dr. Know All the abandoned cars during last week’s snowstorm got me thinking: How long after a snowstorm ends do people have to retrieve their cars? Is there an unwritten rule among local police?&mdash ...   More

Dr. Know So, bird poop was responsible for the E. coli contamination in the Washington Park reservoir. Birds poop in there all the time; why doesn’t this happen more often?—Kat H., Portland This ...   More

Dr. Know How much does it cost to mount a search-and-rescue operation on Mount Hood, and who pays for it? And how many of these things do they do every year, anyway?—Mitch F.There’s something abo ...   More

Dr. Know All the Copenhagen coverage reminded me: Didn’t someone try to build a wave-power plant off the Oregon coast recently, only to have the whole multi-jillion-dollar structure sink like a rock? W ...   More

Dr. Know I moved to Portland from a big city a few years ago. Since then I’ve been having trouble finding fun places for people under 21 to have a good time. I’m all for improvising, but it would ...   More

Dr. Know Why is the fast-food restaurant at the corner of West Burnside and Broadway still empty? Shouldn’t the coming Burnside/Couch couplet make it a hot property? —Alan M., PortlandIf you thin ...   More

Dr. Know Oregon Lottery billboards proclaim “222 millionaires and counting.” Yet the actual “million dollar” payout is 50 grand for 20 years. Is the State of Oregon playing fast and l ...   More