News Big Head Buck’s story is a familiar one in this economy: A 27-year-old special-education teacher for Portland Public Schools, Buck—who declined to give his real name and provided his own alias More
Cash Crop
Oregonians seek fun and fortune in the marijuana fields of Mendocino County.
G!G Raises $1,588,689
To our readers:
News Wow! Between Nov. 9 and Dec. 31, more than 5,000 of you gave nearly $1.6 million to 100 local nonprofits and two statewide organizations through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide. That’s a 27 More
Green For Acres
Oregon’s small farmers want subsidies, too.
News Four years ago, Florence Jessup spent a small fortune to start her Hillsboro farm, Artisan Organics: more than $70,000 from an inheritance and her retirement accounts. Since then, Jessup, farm More
Sugar Fee Soda
A proposed tax on sweetened drinks could raise $35 million for Multnomah County.
News Soda pop, energy drinks and even some juice mixes will get more expensive in Multnomah County if voters approve a new tax proposal bound for the November ballot. As first reported Jan. 9 at ww More
Making Food Deserts Bloom
Tax dollars bring healthy foods to neighborhoods without supermarkets. But can it reduce obesity?
News Muktar Abdow is terribly proud of the refrigerator and freezer at his African Mini Market on North Killingsworth Street. He shows them off with a smile and a wave of his hand that’s appropriate More
Home Away From Home
Records raise doubts that Metro candidate Helen Ying lives in the right district.
News Helen Ying, an educational consultant and former vice principal at Parkrose High School, has a lot going for her in her campaign to join the Metro Council. She has friends, for starters. Counc More
Crash Course
In his first full season with the Blazers, Gerald Wallace has emerged as the team’s heart.
News Gerald Wallace is a quiet guy. So it was something to note when, in the closing seconds of the first half of the Trail Blazers’ game against Sacramento on Dec. 27, he dumped his exhausted, sweat More
We Know What You're Reading
The most popular stories on wweek.com in 2011.
News Among its many other crimes against journalism, the Internet has shown writers and editors what people really want to read when no one is looking. We now know that a slide show called “10 Reason More
A Glowing Opportunity
An Australian company wants to reopen uranium mining in Oregon.
News In Malheur County, the poorest in Oregon, there is wealth buried in the ground. It’s uranium—and the county has what may be the biggest sources in the U.S. For the first time in More
Burying a Tax Idea
Realtors are bankrolling a measure to ban transfer taxes—and further tie the hands of local government.
News It’s not every day a special-interest group raises nearly $800,000 to wage a campaign to ban something that’s already illegal. But that’s the situation with a proposed 2012 initiative ca More
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The 30-Year Secret
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The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! 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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