News State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) says the change he drives is more important than how he drives his car. As... More
Cracked Rearview
Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith’s legislative accomplishments aren’t as large as he makes them appear.
News State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) says the change he drives is more important than how he drives his car. As... More
Bike-Share Snare
Why Portland’s long-awaited bicycle-rental program still doesn’t have a contractor.
News Software problems have delayed a Portland company’s bike-sharing programs in two of the nation’s largest cities and may threaten a... More
Value Shopping
Sam Adams tried to keep Walmart from expanding here. He failed.
News The company moving into an 8,500-square-foot office above Rock Bottom Brewing in downtown Portland on Sept. 7 is the sort of tech-sector success... More
The Tooth of the Matter
A new call to put fluoride in the city’s water raises old fears.
News After 54 years of opposition, the City of Portland is moving to put fluoride in your drinking water. Upstream Public Health, the group behind the fluoridation move, launched what amounted to a p More
Slow Ride
The Portland streetcar is coming to the east side, but records show it’s too broke to provide the service boosters promised.
News Last week, Mayor Sam Adams and about two dozen planners, consultants and other civic leaders took their first ride on the new eastside... More
Running For Covers
Commissioner Amanda Fritz now wants to protect the city’s reservoirs with plastic.
News City Commissioner Amanda Fritz is shopping for pool covers. Fritz has been making the rounds at City Hall pushing a plan to install plastic floating “membrane” covers to protect Portla More
Where Eagles Won’t Dare
Some Eagle Scouts protest the Boy Scouts’ gay ban by returning their badges. Not these Oregon leaders.
News A Boy Scout must be trustworthy, loyal, helpful and the like. But to obtain the highest honor, the rank of Eagle Scout, a Scout must also prove his service has had an impact on his community. Th More
Metro À Go-Go
Metro Council President Tom Hughes’ job has allowed him to see the world.
News At the rate he’s going, Metro Council President Tom Hughes will need to add new pages to his passport faster than you can say “Oregon-Japan Friendship Week.” Since taking office in Janua More
Stop the Presses
The Oregonian may not be a daily newspaper much longer.
News The Oregonian as a daily newspaper is facing a final deadline. The 162-year-old newspaper—once considered one of the nation’s best—is losing readers and advertisers in a state where it dom More
The Scarlet Letter
A prominent lawyer blasts the founders and board of a bankrupt biotech pioneer.
News HemCon Medical Technologies was once one of Oregon’s rare biotech successes. The Portland-based company won worldwide fame for its innovative bandages that use a substance found in shrim More
Top Articles from News
The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
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