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Cash Crop

Oregonians seek fun and fortune in the marijuana fields of Mendocino County.


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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
 
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 AP KRYZA

G!G Raises $1,588,689

To our readers:


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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
 
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 RICHARD H. MEEKER

Green For Acres

Oregon’s small farmers want subsidies, too.


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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
 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 CARRIE STURROCK

Sugar Fee Soda

A proposed tax on sweetened drinks could raise $35 million for Multnomah County.


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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
 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 HANNAH HOFFMAN

Making Food Deserts Bloom

Tax dollars bring healthy foods to neighborhoods without supermarkets. But can it reduce obesity?


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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
 
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 HANNAH HOFFMAN

Home Away From Home

Records raise doubts that Metro candidate Helen Ying lives in the right district.


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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
 
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 COREY PEIN

Crash Course

In his first full season with the Blazers, Gerald Wallace has emerged as the team’s heart.


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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
 
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

We Know What You're Reading

The most popular stories on wweek.com in 2011.


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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
 
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 RUTH BROWN

A Glowing Opportunity

An Australian company wants to reopen uranium mining in Oregon.


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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
 
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 COREY PEIN

Burying a Tax Idea

Realtors are bankrolling a measure to ban transfer taxes—and further tie the hands of local government.


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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
 
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 NIGEL JAQUISS
 

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