News It’s safe to say most Oregonians are neither terrorists, criminals nor illegal immigrants. But the 500,000 people who get their pictures taken for their driver’s license each year are having the More
To Spite Your Face
A little-known state database has a picture of you. Critics fear how the government might use it.
News It’s safe to say most Oregonians are neither terrorists, criminals nor illegal immigrants. But the 500,000 people who get their pictures taken for their driver’s license each year are having the More
Smashing Pumpkins
A Sauvie Island feud over Halloween profits.
News For decades, cars filled with parents and children in search of Halloween pumpkins have streamed out U.S. 30 to Sauvie Island. And one island farm has dominated the business: the Pumpkin Patch, run More
In Unsafe Hands
After sex abuse charges, a Lake Oswego au pair agency denies placing a woman in harm’s way.
News She was 18 when she came to Oregon from Germany as an au pair and moved in with an Intel manager and his family in September 2010. She agreed to provide live-in child care so she could go to school More
The Runaway Bridge Budget
State transportation officials stood by as planning costs for the Interstate 5 Columbia River Crossing ballooned.
News The freeway project Oregon and Washington want to build across the Columbia River has already cost taxpayers $136 million. More
Our Primary Picks to Replace David Wu
Our endorsements in Oregon's 1st Congressional District special election.
News When U.S. Rep David Wu resigned his seat in August, he did something pretty unusual in Oregon these days... More
The Puzzle At Justice
John Kroger, Oregon’s most ambitious politician, won’t run for re-election due to an illness he won’t disclose.
Sins of Omission
BlueOregon says it treats all Democratic candidates fairly. But having its editor on the campaign payroll doesn’t hurt.
Dye Job
Dosha, a popular salon and spa, is divided over a union vote and how pro-labor workers are treated.
News Before she went to work at Dosha Salon Spa on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard in August, Mary Christ had heard about... More
Outgreened and Uncounted
Oregon spent hundreds of millions to create “green” jobs, but it can’t say how many it got.
News It was supposed to be the New Deal of our time: billions in federal spending to create “green jobs” that would...
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Out of Pocket
Real estate agents who don’t want to pay a city business license tax score a big victory in court.
News Three years ago, the City of Portland decided that real estate agents shouldn’t be exempt from paying city business taxes, as they had been for years.
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Top Articles from News
The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! 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. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. 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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