News Portland smokers, hold on to your butts: Multnomah County wants the right to tax your cigarettes, and now the state of Oregon might be looking to increase the price of a pack as well. Thanks to More
Smoke Brakes
Cigarettes will stay cheap in Oregon—whether or not Multnomah County gets to levy its own tobacco tax.
News Portland smokers, hold on to your butts: Multnomah County wants the right to tax your cigarettes, and now the state of Oregon might be looking to increase the price of a pack as well. Thanks to More
Diamonds in the Rough
A man suspected of pimping in Spokane is behind a new Laurelhurst strip club.
News The residents of the Laurelhurst neighborhood aren’t happy about the new neighbor moving in from Spokane, Wash. Not that they liked the old neighbors much. The new resident since last Novemb More
Pork and Ride
The CRC includes a $17 million museum.
News The $3.4 billion Columbia River Crossing keeps getting more expensive for taxpayers, even before it gets built—in part because the price of a pet project of the National Park Service is going up More
Punch Drunk
A video of a cop punching a suspect surfaces as lawyers in the case seek to rewrite state law on excessive force.
News Jason Cox says he was beaten by cops. But he has what a lot of people who allege police brutality don’t: a video. On June 18, 2011, Portland cops arrested Cox, then 37, in the parking lot of an More
RACC ’Em Up
City Hall must reduce services but it lacks the nerve to cut its budget for the arts.
News Last December, the Regional Arts & Culture Council threw Mayor Sam Adams a huge going-away gala. The tribute, “pARTy in the Name of Art,” included a “Sammania” show with Bodyvox da More
Very Healthy Paychecks
Top executives at Providence, after talking up health-care cost controls, see big raises as they leave.
News Greg Van Pelt wants to cut your health-care costs. As the retiring CEO for Providence Oregon, he’s talked about working to find solutions for ballooning medical expenses and creating community More
Floating Away
Targeted for elimination, the Office of Healthy Working Rivers may be you-know-where without a paddle.
News When it comes to government agencies with endearing names, none comes close to the city’s Office of Healthy Working Rivers. It’s not just the hopeful adjectives in its title—it’s the tiny More
Statue of Limitations
Who deserves a pedestal more, Jason Lee or Mark Hatfield?
News The Oregon Legislature wants to send the late Mark O. Hatfield back to Washington. A bill with 36 sponsors would mount a full-size bronze of the debonair and determined Republican statesman in t More
Paranoid Parking
Mayor Charlie Hales’ plan to change rules on big apartments has everyone fired up.
News When smoke drifted out of the halted construction site on Southeast Division Street early March 29, the owner of nearby Victory Bar called the cops. It wasn’t his first call about the unfinish More
A Big Dam Fight Ahead
Opponents of Oregon’s Green Energy Law are seeking a major change.
News In 2007, Oregon lawmakers decided to address global warming by moving the state aggressively away from burning coal and natural gas to produce electricity. They required big utilities to gener 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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