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City Hall Politicians don’t usually gain support by making budget cuts.But the startling thing about Mayor Charlie Hales’ first budget, released April 30, is how the mayor’s cutting of $21.5 million has b ... More

City Hall Janet Wojcik grew up in the shadow of Rocky Butte, the Northeast Portland bluff once known for its jail but that now features a park with a commanding view of the city. This year... More

City Hall Twenty years ago, Portland Fire & Rescue employed only four female firefighters.  Last week, City Commissioner Randy Leonard stunned... More

City Hall The City of Portland is moving to break the longtime hold a business group has on providing security patrols in downtown parks, setting up a potential struggle over public safety and big-money m ... More

City Hall Public records offer clues about what politicians are really like. Do they pay their bills, vote or license their dogs? And what about parking tickets? All the major City Hall candidates have them an ... More

City Hall Jefferson Smith wants to loom large in the mayor’s race, and not just because he’s the tallest candidate so far (6 feet 4 inches), but because he sees himself as an alternative to former City C ... More

City Hall Four years ago, Eileen Brady considered at launching her political career by challenging a two-term U.S. senator, Gordon Smith. At the time, some—including this newspaper—suggested she run for m ... More

City Hall Many tough things have been said about Sam Adams over the years ... More

City Hall Love him or hate him, Portland will be a more boring place without City Commissioner Randy Leonard. Leonard’s face would turn scarlet at the comparison, but in his nine-plus years on the City Cou ... More

City Hall Too early for 2012 election coverage, you say? Well, the people campaigning to unseat Portland Mayor Sam Adams are already busy raising money and sending out junk mail. It’s widely assumed Adams ... More

Cops and Courts A former vice cop is making new allegations of retaliation, lying and backbiting in the highest ranks of the Portland Police Bureau—after he gave a series of interviews about the city’s fail ... More

Cops and Courts The state of Oregon has a long history of bungled computer and high-tech projects: DMV, the State Data Center and OWIN ... More

Cops and Courts When police raided William Traverso’s house last fall, it wasn’t the first time cops had come knocking. Traverso was caught up in a 2008 FBI ... More

Cops and Courts Last week, Mayor Sam Adams canceled for the third time a hearing on whether Portland should rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.  And so far, Commissioner Randy Leonard is the only p ... More

Cops and Courts A year and a half after police found Max Chamberlin fatally shot in the back seat of a car in Ecuador, his parents in east Multnomah County are still awaiting justice. The trial of the man accused ... More

Cops and Courts The Portland Police Bureau’s former point man on the issue of human trafficking has put the city on notice that he intends to sue his former supervisor for gender harassment. ... More

Cops and Courts The Albina Ministerial Alliance wants an outside investigation into Portland’s Police Bureau and the City Attorney’s Office in the wake of recent revelations about a police captain and his ... More

Cover Story Reader, beware: What follows is mostly gossip and opinion. As we have done near the end of every legislative session since 1977, WW surveyed Salem lobbyists, legislative staffers and journalists to ... More

Cover Story Novice Sister Donna Vanewday sways to the pounding dubstep in Old Town’s CC Slaughters nightclub, cooling himself with a black fan. It’s hot as hell inside a nun’s habit. He’s a towering ... More

Cover Story From the Editor In this Market Guide, we’re making a few assumptions. We figure you know where you get your daily bread and your weekly milk (or rice milk, as the case may be). The decision to do ... More

Cover Story Anne Peterson is a problem solver. She may not look like one—her dyed maroon hair and gold-rimmed sunglasses hint at her second life as a “Burner” (one who regularly attends Burning Man)�� ... More

Cover Story It’s an April evening at Dishman Community Center in Northeast Portland, and people are pissed. The occasion is a public debate between Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the local campaign that� ... More

Cover Story Close your eyes and think of a typical Portland band. You’re imagining a group of sensitive lumberjacks playing sad-sack folk tunes on old-timey instruments, aren’t you? Ask those truly in ... More

Cover Story Misfortune is Daniel N. Gordon’s best friend. No Oregon lawyer files more lawsuits—or wins more—than Gordon. He doesn’t do divorces, car accidents or medical malpractice. Instead, he is th ... More

Cover Story Portland is hell on four wheels. Our roads are clogged with a noxious blend of light-footed Prius drivers, manic transplants in Volvos and frustrated guys in F-150s who seem convinced their ball ... More

Cover Story Devon is hauled into the Central City Concern Sobering Station, a Portland cop on each arm. He has a dazed, faraway look that, as he puts it, “a whole lot of Hennessy” provides. He’s quickly ... More

Cover Story The Exploding Hearts are the biggest “what if” in the history of Portland music. Ten years ago next week, the band released its first and only album, Guitar Romantic, a record brimming with sh ... More

Dr. Know I drive the Marquam Bridge daily, and on the east end by Southeast Water Avenue is a pile of rock and broken cement that neither grows nor gets smaller, even though giant backhoes are active the ... More

Dr. Know Why in the name of the Almighty Monkey do we still have to suffer through trains blowing their horns as they crawl through town? I mean, this is 2013—can’t they figure out some better option t ... More

Dr. Know What is this Union Cab company, with its splashy periwinkle and orange sherbet-colored cars? Can Union be trusted? And who gave it permission to operate here? —Night Cabbie in SE Your signatur ... More

Dr. Know I always hear that Portland has the most strip clubs of any city in the U.S.—or at least the most per capita. Are either of these claims even slightly true? —Statistically Curious I don’t ... More

Dr. Know U.S. President Herbert Hoover was from Oregon. How come nothing here is named after him? —Tequila Wilhelmina I admire your penchant for brevity, Willi. You should be on Twitter—and while you’r ... More

Dr. Know I voted for the arts tax, but assumed it would be included in the “regular” tax. Why is it separate? It feels like a punishment: “You voted for it, here it is, in your face.” If I don’t ... More

Dr. Know Has there always been a wealth of fat chicks in Portland? I used to brag about how cute (cute, not gorgeous) our women are, but lately I’ve seen a lot of boombalattys. What gives? —Free Willy ... More

Dr. Know Why are boner pills so damn expensive? Even with my Kaiser insurance, it’s $135 for eight of the little bastards. Can’t our local meth cooks make this stuff? —Going Broke in Camas One of t ... More

Dr. Know I’ve submitted some great questions to Dr. Know, and have read only lame questions answered lately. I conclude that the column is a clever ruse, like letters to a famous porn magazine of past. ... More

Dr. Know The folks planning the Columbia River Crossing bridge made it too low for big cargo carriers. Would legalized pot in Oregon fix this? Imagine: The bridge absorbs enough second-hand smoke to actu ... More

Elections Many election battles vow an eye for an eye. But this spring’s fight is something even fiercer: a tooth for a tooth. This off-year election—held in a season when voters might be understandably ... More

Elections The news last week that a temporary Clackamas County elections worker got caught filling in votes for Republican candidates has put a cloud over the voting results in Oregon’s third-largest co ... More

Elections Observers of the Portland mayor’s race have whined about campaign tactics this year. But running for City Hall is like sipping high tea... More

Elections Portland voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to impose an annual $35-per-adult tax on city residents (with exemptions for those living in poverty) to help fund more arts teachers in Portland Publi ... More

Elections NATIONAL President: Barack Obama (D)  CONGRESS U.S. House, 1st District: Suzanne Bonamici (D) U.S. House, 3rd District: Earl Blumenauer (D) U.S. House, 5th District: Kurt Schrader ... More

Elections The City of Portland has been a minor player in the proposed $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing—with its wide freeway bridges and light rail to Vancouver, Wash. But the mega-project will pro ... More

Elections Last month, the Portland Development Commission resumed negotiations on two long-debated projects requiring millions in public subsidies: an office tower in Southwest Portland without a carbon f ... More

Elections The city’s labor contract with police allows officers involved in a shooting or in-custody death to decline to talk to bureau investigators for 48 hours while they confer with union lawyers. O ... More

Elections The Portland City Council voted unanimously Sept. 12 to fluoridate Portland’s water by mid-2014. Foes, seeking to refer the question... More

Elections In 2009, Tom Moyer abandoned work on a new 33-story office and condominium tower in the center of Portland’s downtown retail district. The development mogul’s company has left us with a gaping ... More

Hot Seat Greg Palast guarantees one thing to people who read his book or hear him talk: “If I don’t make you laugh, then I’ll give you your money back.” A progressive journalist famous for taki ... More

Hot Seat Occupy Portland has commanded media attention by camping in two city parks for 39 days, staging marches downtown and, last week, taking their protest inside local bank branches. Both the U.S. and Oreg ... More

Hot Seat Go ahead, keep on thinking the world’s big cities are dangerous and unhealthy, that they increase alienation and poverty. Edward Glaeser wants you to know the truth. Glaeser, a Harvard economist, ... More

Hot Seat Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams wasn’t always so anti-authoritarian and outspoken.  Williams, who is speaking in Portland this week, says she worried about getting in trouble growing ... More

Hot Seat Van Jones says he isn’t bitter that he’s no longer President Obama’s environmental adviser and green-jobs guru. Jones, who will be speaking in Portland on Jan. 25, has certainly mov ... More

Housing City Commissioner Nick Fish has been in crisis management for more than a month
... More

Housing After a North Portland rental home owned by Dawn Lind went into foreclosure last fall, she jumped into a nationwide legal fight that could affect millions of residential properties. Lind, who learn ... More

Housing In a city with an estimated shortage of 20,000 affordable housing units, every new project in Portland helps, even if it’s only a few units. “Affordable ... More

Immigration Advocates for undocumented immigrants accuse U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) of trying to drive illegal workers further underground with a new bill that would require employers to check applicants ... More

Letters to the Editor In your recent interview with anti-fluoride activist Kim Kaminski [“Hotseat,” WW, May 29, 2013], she mentioned Carl Sagan as her inspiration to become an environmentalist. What she fails to me ... More

Letters to the Editor We need to be sympathetic to all people, but I think that tolerant Portlanders, while their hearts are in the right place, may not understand the scope of this problem [“Change Is Hard,” WW, M ... More

Letters to the Editor It’s important to keep in perspective the goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: to help families experiencing food insecurity make ends meet [“Counting Cards,” WW, May 15, 2 ... More

Letters to the Editor An anti-fluoride ad that appeared in the May 8, 2013, edition of your paper mentions my name and House Bill 3162, which I co-sponsored. I’m writing to clarify that this legislation does not in ... More

Letters to the Editor This endorsement [“Chew on This,” WW, May 1, 2013] simply reiterates all the tired old clichéd notions about the supposed benefits of adding fluoride to drinking water. There is a lot of ... More

Letters to the Editor Despite your efforts to influence Portland’s fluoride vote by painting a picture of fluoride opponents as a small group of radical, unscientific loonies [“Molar Majority,” WW, April 24, 20 ... More

Letters to the Editor Scalping is the free market at work [“Ticket Masters,” WW, April 17, 2013]. If you have something of value and someone is willing to pay for it, there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is ... More

Letters to the Editor Look, I commute by bike, I occasionally go grocery shopping on my bike, and I love riding to the bar for a few beers. But can we please get over this holier-than-thou crap? [“Spoke Addicts,” W ... More

Letters to the Editor As a Southeast Stumptown homeowner, I notice that folks in single-family dwellings tend to assume “rights” to the street—aka the commons—in front of their homes [“Paranoid Parking,” WW ... More

Letters to the Editor Well, the current laws only seek to pad the pockets of wind producers who get enormous subsidies and forced legislated demand [“A Big Dam Fight Ahead,” WW, March 27, 2011]. All of this at the ... More

Multnomah County More than 17,500 people in Portland don’t have easy access to supermarkets or full-service grocery stores—a problem city officials say they want to fix.     Many of their neighborho ... More

Multnomah County Multnomah County’s drive to sell some prime downtown Portland real estate has pitted two of the city’s wealthiest and most influential families in competition to ... More

Multnomah County Word that Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk is considering retirement (see Murmurs, WW, Feb. 2, 2011)
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Multnomah County Gregg Abbott is perched over his Samsung Android at a wooden picnic table outside his Whiffies Fried Pies truck, parked in a vacant Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard lot called Cartopia. It’s a Monday morning—his day off—and Abbott is anxious to move under the heating lamps of nearby Tiny’s Coffee. He’s had his fill of sitting out in the cold.
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Multnomah County A site controlled by one of Portland’s largest property owners is the source of a fight between a powerful state senator and one of her longtime political allies. Over the past two decades, Sen. Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) has deployed considerable financial and political  ... More

Murmurs Companies on the hook for a Superfund cleanup of Portland Harbor are paying millions to study the toxicity of Willamette River fish. But that doesn’t include $920 for new metal signs, designed by ... More

Murmurs Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is mulling the idea of turning in his badge for a run at a seat on the county commission. Staton, sheriff since 2010, confirmed to WW that he has met with Multn ... More

Murmurs City Commissioner Steve Novick is ready to flush Portland’s toilet-sales department. The newest member of the City Council says the efforts to market the patent sidewalk commode known as the P ... More

Murmurs Just as Mayor Charlie Hales moves to bust the Portland police commanders union, a bill to expand the rights of police brass to unionize is working its way through the Legislature. House Bill 2418 ex ... More

Murmurs Intel now wants what Nike got. Emails obtained by WW under a public records request show that, in late March, Intel met with Gov. John Kitzhaber’s team “for a follow-on conversation to the Decembe ... More

Murmurs Members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are leaning on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a $125,500 penalty levied against companies on the hook for cleaning up contaminated sed ... More

Murmurs At least 315 cars have been towed from the Old Town Entertainment District since December, when the city started closing down six blocks in Northwest on weekends (and certain drinking holidays) ... More

Murmurs While Oregon education czar Rudy Crew is pushing a reform agenda in Salem, he’s hoping to moonlight so he can add to his $280,000-a-year state salary (see “Wrecking Crew,” WW, Jan. 16, 2013). ... More

Murmurs The Bureau of Development Services has suspended four commercial electrical inspectors and fired one after an investigation found they were loafing at a Northwest Industrial District diner. Sources fa ... More

Murmurs The fluoride battle this week produced a phone-book-sized collection of voters pamphlet statements, with 46 pages of arguments for fluoridation and a whopping 85 against. Most supporting arguments ... More

News In the final weeks of writing his first budget, Mayor Charlie Hales restored money to dozens of city programs he had suggested cutting: the Police Bureau’s Mounted Patrol Unit, a county-run ment ... More

News Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is about to see his runaway overtime spending put into lockdown. Staton routinely spends nearly twice the money he budgets for overtime, and he’s on pace to ... More

News Nick Fish looked shaken. Amanda Fritz was horrified. Steve Novick told bicycle jokes in the lobby. And Dan Saltzman left early, pleased as punch. Portland’s city commissioners had just learn ... More

News When the cops arrested 46-year-old Weston Miner Rogers for robbing three local banks, Portland police crowed in a press release about the capture of the “Hammer Pants Bandit.” Why the nickna ... More

News The corpses line 82nd and 122nd avenues, Northeast Sandy Boulevard and other roads of despair: not bodies, but defunct payday-loan shops. It seems like only yesterday a Portlander could find a ... More

News Kim Kaminski just got done burying the Portland power machine in the May 21 election, so excuse her if she’s a bit direct. Kaminski led Clean Water Portland, the campaign against fluoridating Po ... More

News Portland voters gave their blessing to a $35-a-person tax last fall on the promise the money would be used to restore arts and music to the city’s public schools. So imagine the surprise of ... More

News CenturyLink, the biggest provider of landline telephone and Internet service in Oregon, has made an extraordinary request of state regulators: Let us put off repair of utility poles for 10 years ... More

News No matter where he travels, the street kid known as Kidd always knows where he wants to end up. With a ragged goatee and barely as tall as a sidewalk mailbox, Kidd, who is in his early 20s, says ... More

News Victor Viets and Mayor Charlie Hales have a lot in common. Both used to work for large engineering firms in Portland and both are boating enthusiasts who have lived in Columbia River condos near w ... More

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NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East Reference ID: 03AMMAN7292Created: 2003-11-06 15:57Released: 2011-08-30 01:44Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOrigin: Embassy AmmanUNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 AMMAN 007292  SIPDIS &n ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East Reference ID: 06BAGHDAD1570Created: 2006-05-12 13:57Released: 2011-08-30 01:44Classification: CONFIDENTIALOrigin: Embassy BaghdadVZCZCXRO2726PP RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHKUK RUEHMOSDE RUEHGB #1570/01 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East Reference ID: 09AMMAN392Created: 2009-02-11 12:40Released: 2011-08-30 01:44Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOrigin: Embassy AmmanVZCZCXRO8577RR RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHKUK RUEHROVDE RUEHAM ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East Reference ID: 10KUWAIT165Created: 2010-02-24 11:01Released: 2011-08-30 01:44Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOrigin: Embassy KuwaitUNCLAS KUWAIT 000165SENSITIVE, SIPDISSTATE FOR NEA/ ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East  SUBJECT: GOK AND CORPORATIONS HOST FIRST-EVER TRAINING
SESSIONS TO COMBAT COUNTERFEITING ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East CORRECTED MAURITIUS: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East  GENUINE EFFORTS TO CURB COUNTERFEIT IN MOROCCO? ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East  MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East  Summary: In a very friendly June 2 meeting with
Moroccan Minister of Commerce and Industry Mezouar, CODEL
Smith ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Africa and Middle East  Beginning July 31, two prominent
conservative websites posted articles calling for a boycott
on U.S. consumer goods and services ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia ID: 09DHAKA469 SUBJECT: NOBEL LAUREATE REQUESTS USG HELP ON GRAMEEN BANK DATE: 2009-05-11 00:00:00 CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL ORIGIN: Embassy Dhaka TEXT: C O N F I D E N T I A ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 10PHNOMPENH29 Created: 2010-01-19 00:41 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO8739 PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 09PHNOMPENH71 Created: 2009-01-28 10:02 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO6699 PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 09PHNOMPENH525 Created: 2009-07-28 09:58 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO8027 PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHH ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 08PHNOMPENH318 Created: 2008-04-10 01:07 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO8106 PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHH ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 07PHNOMPENH1463 Created: 2007-12-03 08:46 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO1820 P ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 06PHNOMPENH1124
Created: 2006-06-15 10:38
Released: 2011-08-30 01:44
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 06PHNOMPENH1199 Created: 2006-06-28 13:30 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: CONFIDENTIAL Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO3267 PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEH ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 06PHNOMPENH2240 Created: 2006-12-28 05:25 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Phnom Penh VZCZCXRO5057 P ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Asia Reference ID: 10CHENGDU28 Created: 2010-02-04 02:54 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Consulate Chengdu VZCZCXRO5762 OO RUE ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 06MINSK866 Created: 2006-08-10 13:03 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: CONFIDENTIAL Origin: Embassy Minsk VZCZCXRO6916 PP RUEHDBU RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RU ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 09BRUSSELS1056 Created: 2009-07-31 15:26 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Brussels VZCZCXYZ0000 RR ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 07BRUSSELS982 Created: 2007-03-23 17:10 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Brussels VZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHBS #0 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 06BRUSSELS3748 Created: 2006-11-07 15:47 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Brussels VZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHBS #37 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 09SARAJEVO281 Created: 2009-03-09 10:07 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Sarajevo VZCZCXYZ0000 RR ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID:09SARAJEVO42 Created: 2009-01-13 10:20 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Sarajevo VZCZCXRO5468 RR RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDA RUE ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 10SARAJEVO73 Created: 2010-01-25 13:42 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Sarajevo VZCZCXYZ0001 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHVJ #00 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 05SOFIA1916 Created: 2005-11-10 14:16 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Sofia This record is a parti ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe Reference ID: 06ROME506Created: 2006-02-20 10:24Released: 2011-08-30 01:44Classification: SECRET//NOFORNOrigin: Embassy RomeThis record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: Europe CHILD LABOR IS ILLEGAL IN THE NETHERLANDS. ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America ID: 09BUENOSAIRES366 SUBJECT: Argentina: License For Nil - GoA Imposes New Import DATE 2009-03-30 00:00:00 CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ORIGIN: Embassy Buenos ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America ID: 07BUENOSAIRES1877 SUBJECT: ARGENTINE AMCHAM'S ANNUAL IPR CONFERENCE MAKES A SPLASH DATE: 2007-09-20 00:00:00 CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ORIGIN: Embassy ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID: 07BRASILIA249 Created: 2007-02-13 13:02 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Brasilia VZCZCXRO6015 PP ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID:07BRASILIA1431 Created: 2007-07-26 19:08 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Brasilia VZCZCXRO3569 PP RUEHRG DE RUEHBR #1431 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID: 07BRASILIA1105 Created: 2007-06-15 11:15 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Brasilia VZCZCXRO6491 PP RUEHRG DE RUEHBR #1105/01 166 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID: 06BRASILIA993 Created: 2006-05-22 17:22 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Brasilia VZCZCXRO3178 RR ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID: 04BRASILIA281 Created: 2004-02-06 17:47 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Brasilia This record is a partial extract of the ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID:09SANTIAGO88 Created: 2009-01-28 15:25 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Origin: Embassy Santiago VZCZCXYZ0007 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHSG #0 ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America Reference ID: 09SANTIAGO690 Created: 2009-07-23 13:25 Released: 2011-08-30 01:44 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Origin: Embassy Santiago VZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUE ... More

NikeLeaks Cables: North and South America RECENT IPR ENFORCEMENT SUCCESSES IN MEXICO ... More

Politics State Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro) has cause to be irate. Starr is running for state labor commissioner, a nonpartisan race that suddenly appears partisan. ... More

Politics State Sen. Brian Boquist (R-Dallas) may be the most adventurous lawmaker in Salem. He’s described his best-known business, International Charter Inc. of Oregon, as a humanitarian organization, ... More

Politics The biggest bet Gov. John Kitzhaber has placed in his third term is that he can save Oregon billions by shaking up the way the state pays for medical care. Right now, Oregon pays the medical bill ... More

Politics Maybe money can’t buy you love—legally, anyway—but it helps when trying to sway voters. For much of the past decade, Oregon House Democrats have out-raised
... More

Politics Eight years ago, Eileen Brady ignored a police officer’s order to walk her bike through Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
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Politics State Rep. Jefferson Smith’s campaign for mayor isn’t off to an awe-inspiring start.
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Politics In the past few weeks, Peter Geiger has played host in his backyard to two people who want to win a seat in the Oregon Legislature.
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Politics Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian may be the toughest candidate to beat... More

Politics Even the joyless, pitiful souls who spent this summer paying attention to a City Hall election... More

Politics The timing was fitting: One week after the far right wing of the Republican Party held the economy hostage... More

Q & A Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).  Who watches Wyden? Zeke Johnson. Johnson is the director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights ... More

Q & A In 1970, Michael Kazin wanted to get to Portland so badly, he hitchhiked his way across the USA. It took Kazin, then in his early 20s, a week to thumb it from New York to Portland, where he wrot ... More

Q & A Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence director Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money.  ... More

Q & A Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner has a framed cartoon drawing in his office of him pulling the pants off a surprised Sam Adams.
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Q & A A lot of people in City Hall have interacted with police, but Baruti Artharee may be the only one who can say he’s had the business end of a cop’s gun pressed against his head. That was a lo ... More

Q & A Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president, isn’t going to win in November. But were... More

Q & A Leal Sundet says it’s bad enough that the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union is getting a raw deal at the Port of Portland. He thinks also it’s getting a bum rap. For more than a ... More

Q & A U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio has held his Oregon seat in Congress for more than 25 years. The 4th District Democrat has been... More

Q & A In South Africa, F.W. de Klerk was an unlikely reformer. He had risen in that country’s white-minority power politics... More

Q & A In late October, Mikey Kampmann left Southeast Portland’s Clinton Street neighborhood for a summer vacation of sorts. Kampmann, a 25-year-old comic and occasional Portlandia cast member, is sp ... More

Rogue of the Week Ben Stein has gotten a lot of traction out of his turn as a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”). He’s since... More

Rogue of the Week Stephen Vass was driving back to work after lunch through Beaverton on the morning of Feb. 14 when he turned left off of Southwest Cedar Hills Boulevard onto Southwest Canyon Road. Like many of us ... More

Rogue of the Week Oregon legislators convene Feb. 1 in Salem for a one-month session. They’ll deal with education reform, the budget and fundamentally changing the way the state pays for health care. On that la ... More

Rogue of the Week It’s nice that the giant corporations that provide our cell-phone service say they’re dedicated to giving us the best possible coverage. T-Mobile, for example. It says it wants to provide the ve ... More

Rogue of the Week Democracy Connection, a new website based in Medford, poses this question: “Have something you want to tell your local Paper,
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Rogue of the Week Neighborhood Notes is a different kind of online news source. The website features “hyperlocal” news from around Portland. What’s really different, however, is that Neighborhood Notes also ch ... More

Rogue of the Week Here at the Rogue desk, we understand the practice of law is a stressful profession. But for threatening a fellow lawyer and his client, Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Jim David lands square in the ... More

Rogue of the Week It’s an old scam: Set up a bogus charity and a boiler-room call center. Tell people you’re raising money for cops, vets or firefighters...
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Rogue of the Week In Oregon and across the country, research shows... More

Rogue of the Week On May 10, a gunman shot a clerk at Cigarettes Plus on North Lombard Street. The clerk survived but the gunman fled, leading Portland police to lock down ... More

Rogue of the Year Portlanders hear constantly that their regional public transportation system is one of the nation’s best. “If it were a fighter, we’d say it punches above its weight,” U.S. Rep ... More

Schools David Douglas School District, the low-key Southeast Portland educational agency best known for its drama-free governance, will experience something of a historic milestone May 17. For the first t ... More

Schools The School Board on Monday night hailed Portland Public Schools’ new labor contract with teachers as collaborative ... More

Sports Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t ... More

Sports Portland Timbers striker Ryan Johnson’s second of three goals against the San Jose Earthquakes on Feb. 17 probably won’t show up on any highlight reels. But the buildup to Johnson’s scor ... More

Sports Troy Perkins was tired of getting shelled. At the Portland Timbers’ practice July 16, the team ran a succession of Bugatti-quick six-on-six scrimmages. Perkins, the Timbers’ goalkeeper, trie ... More

Sports The chants rose from Jeld-Wen Field’s Section 107 like steam.  On the field, an amateur soccer team from California had come to town and was in the process of beating a Major League Socce ... More

Sports After an optimistic start this season, the news is grim: The Portland Timbers have staked undisputed claim to Major League... More

Sports Let’s get the niceties out of the way: The Portland Timbers’ first season in Major League Soccer was a qualified success.  The Timbers missed the playoffs and turned in the 12th-best reco ... More

Sports Technically, there shouldn’t be a team of “Mavericks” because the dictionary defines a maverick as “an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party.” Which sounds aw ... More

Sports Portland’s initiation into Major League Soccer played to sellout crowds last week and produced the Timbers’ first wins of the season. For those who weren’t among the 18,600-plus fans to pack ... More

Sports As the Trail Blazers prepare this week for their third consecutive playoff appearance, Portland seems poised to make a push for postseason success thanks to the midseason addition of Gerald Wallace. ... More

Sports At 2:30 am, most late-night establishments release the drunks and lock the doors. But on Saturday, April 2, last call was when the party really started for one Portland business. Swagat, an Indian ... More

The Nose The Nose turned to the paper of record last Thursday and learned something valuable beyond the meltdowns of Tom DeLay, polar ice caps and Iraq.He learned that Portland isn't the City that Works, it's ... More

The Nose What a shame. Washington-Monroe High School, the long-closed ghost ship in Southeast Portland, got spit-and-polished by the Red Cross for Katrina survivors who never came en masse. And Hurricane Rita' ... More

The Nose The Nose is amazed, and he doesn't say that lightly.No, he's not surprised that Jehovah dished out a whuppin' to New Orleans the likes of which was last seen by either Sodom or Gomorrah, can't remembe ... More

The Nose When The Nose heard about the 620 large that Portland's school district must shell out to make former HR chief Steve Goldschmidt go away, he was tempted to change jobs.If all it takes to score a six-f ... More

The Nose The Nose loves it when the cold frost of racism foams and sputters with the energy of a dropped can of Hamm's.Saves him a lot of trouble when volk like Rami Makboul, the manager of the Vue nightclub, ... More

The Nose The Nose returned from a week of vacation-if that's what you want to call it. A week visiting the in-laws in John Day ain't exactly Shangri-La, particularly when your mother-in-law's idea of cuisine i ... More

The Nose The Nose woke up mad Friday morning. That's not too different from most days, except this time, he had a reason for kicking the dog and screaming in the shower. Namely, Enron's big F- YOU to the City ... More

The Nose The Nose was drinking Abbot Ales the other night (to express solidarity with Londoners) when his bleary mind turned from terrorism to something almost as bad: Salem. Specifically, the increasingly gho ... More

The Nose Did Commander Schnozz and the Nostril Brigade celebrate Independence Day? Oh, you bet they did.On Saturday, the Nose piled the ball and chain, the rugrats, and his buddy Irv into the van and set a cou ... More

The Nose After the millionth time that Tom Potter described himself as a "change agent" in last year's mayoral campaign, the Nose tuned out.For someone whose English is Olde and best served cold, that Potteris ... More

Winners & Losers Winners Our Oregon and the consumer activists who led the 2007 Legislature to crack down on predatory lenders have cast a big money-changer from our temple. Legislation capping interest rates for pay ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERSDon’t call him Ralph Nader, but independent John Frohnmayer (right) gave a boost to U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) by announcing he’ll run for Smith’s seat. A former head of ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Score a victory for sports traditionalists , who beat back the Portland Beavers’ misguided push to change the team’s nickname to something that wouldn’t be confused with Oreg ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERSCockroaches scampered away from the light of victory after some North Portland apartment-dwellers refused to have their units fumigated, figuring the only thing worse than the insects are the ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS How does an illegal immigrant avoid deportation in lefty Portland? Become a labor-union organizer. Just ask José Alfredo Cobián of Molalla , whom a federal judge let return to Me ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Portland is poised to have the most fabulous election ever. The city could become a haven for gay politicians in 2008 if Mayor Tom Potter decides next month not to seek re-election. It&rsquo ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Score one for pervy 13-year-old boys—actually, all 13-year-old boys . Last Friday, a Yamhill County judge dismissed most charges against repentant ass-slappers Ryan Cornelison and Cory M ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Sellwood Bridge worrywarts had their fears validated last Wednesday, when a younger, stronger bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. Inspectors have rated the cracked 82-year-old Southeast Portland ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Willie Nelson loves his Oregon green—energy, that is! What'd you think, Cheech? Nelson's stake in Portland-based SeQuential Biofuels could pay dividends since SeQuential became the city ... More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Gushing copy, photos galore—and maps! You can't buy coverage like that, but Swedish furniture giant IKEA gets it fo' free. The Oregonian dispatched a reporter all the way to Cali to cas ... More