News Emily Humphries removes a frozen crow from her kitchen freezer, places it on a metal workbench in her garage and lights a scented candle.
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The Right Stuffing
For do-it-yourself taxidermists, hope is a thing with feathers—or fur and sometimes horns.
News Emily Humphries removes a frozen crow from her kitchen freezer, places it on a metal workbench in her garage and lights a scented candle.
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Public Paydays
City and county workers aren’t getting rich—but they’re doing better than their neighbors.
News Mayor Sam Adams and other local leaders want to attract renewed attention to growing economic disparities across the city (“Equally Confused,” WW, Aug. 31, 2011). There’s one gap they may pr More
Never Remember
A decade of Truther movies, considered.
News The letter feels like tidings from 10 years ago: handwritten, packed in bubble wrap, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. But it arrived at WW a month ago from Paul S. Szymanski of Southwest Portl More
Light During Wartime
Oregon missed the 9/11-industrial train, but one local defense contractor has thrived.
News Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent $8 trillion on defense and homeland security, but that largesse has resulted in few local jobs. Oregon receives roughly one-fifth the national average in More
Irony Lives
The new normal turned out to be a lot like the old normal.
News A decade ago, pundits around the country heralded a new America. Optimists said we’d see Americans more interested and engaged in world affairs. We would all be more serious: Vanity Fair magazine e More
The Defender
A Guantanamo lawyer says conservatives have given the state powers they always feared.
News No Portlander is more involved with the aftermath of 9/11 on a national—or global—scale, than Steven Wax. As the federal public defender for Oregon since 1983, leading the office that provides More
9/11: 10 Years On and 2,500 Miles Away
An introduction.
News Portland was safely removed from the 9/11 attacks, but the national response to those now-historical events affected this place as much as any other. From eroded civil liberties to the stubborn persis More
Heavy Metals
Hard times and record prices have Portlanders mining their drawers for silver and gold.
News Renee Buckley and Sherri Dominic, a pair of self-described suburban housewives, shook down their jewelry boxes before coming to Silver Lining Jewelry and Loan. They spilled out their trinkets—inc More
Déjà Vu Voodoo
While recycling news about “savings,” the I-5 bridge project has hidden costs we’ll all have to pay.
News The people running the Columbia River Crossing project veered into Orwellian territory last week when they announced they had found $100 million in savings More
Equally Confused
Mayor Adams has let his plans for an office of equity become a shambles. Commissioner Fritz may pay the price.
News It should’ve been a gimme: a city of Portland office devoted to making sure “everyone has access to opportunities necessary to satisfy essential needs, advance their well-being, and achieve thei More
Top Articles from News
The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! 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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