News After more than a decade and $160 million spent on planners, consultants and lobbyists, the proposed $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing’s moment has finally arrived. When lawmakers c More
Pay Up or Shut Up
Lawmakers’ first order of business: Find $450 million for a rebranded CRC project.
News After more than a decade and $160 million spent on planners, consultants and lobbyists, the proposed $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing’s moment has finally arrived. When lawmakers c More
Give!Guide 2012 Results
To our readers:
News You are simply amazing. In November and December, 5,450 of you gave $1,967,423 to local nonprofits through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide. That’s nearly 100 times the amount you donated through More
Committed to Junction City
The state’s new mental hospital is drawing fire—and it hasn’t even been built yet.
News The road for the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City stretches across an open field, waiting to lead people to the state’s newest mental health facility. State officials have spent $61.8 More
Drawn to Craziness
The artist who brought millionaire fugitive John McAfee to Portland admits he’s getting a bit wigged out himself.
News The trail of John McAfee has run from Belize to Guatemala to Miami in recent months as the software millionaire fled questioning in a murder case and was deported to the U.S. Along the way, Mc More
A Recipe For Safer Eating
Lawmakers want government-run restaurants to undergo health inspections.
News Two Portland legislators say they want to close the loophole in state law that allows government-run restaurants to escape health inspections. The proposal comes after 135 people got sick from e More
Insuring Inefficiency
Kitzhaber nixes universities’ hopes of cutting health costs.
News Oregon’s seven state universities have been clamoring for years for more independence from bureaucratic state regulations. As taxpayer support for them has waned, Oregon University System offici More
A Fork in the Road
A yet-to-be-released audit slams the city’s transportation spending—and gives Hales an opening for reform.
News Mayor Charlie Hales has promised to shake up the city bureau that is supposed to maintain Portland’s streets—and the More
Overtime Busts
Budget-breaking practices allow some sheriff’s deputies to double their pay.
News Sgt. Diana Olsen has occasionally been the face of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. She heads up the sheriff’s search and rescue team, and when a 7-year-old Skyline Elementary School stu More
Voices 2013: Lainie Block Wilker
A parent activist becomes a powerful schools critic—and a force PPS can't ignore.
News If you Google the name Lainie Block Wilker, you get a photograph of Bobbie Regan instead. In the photo, Regan, the longest-serving member of Portland Public Schools’ Board of Education, is wee More
Voices 2013: Charlie Hales
A decade away made the new mayor a different kind of (political) barnyard animal.
News Once again, Charlie’s in charge. Ten years ago, Charlie Hales quit his job as city commissioner to start selling streetcars. On Jan. 2, the downtown... 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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