News Not all lost, stray or unwanted pets end up at Multnomah County Animal Services, but when they do, its shelter is often the end of the line. “Private shelters can choose,” says Mike Oswa More
The Portland Index: Dead Pets Walking
Multnomah County’s animal shelter has cut its kill rate, but activists say it could do more.
News Not all lost, stray or unwanted pets end up at Multnomah County Animal Services, but when they do, its shelter is often the end of the line. “Private shelters can choose,” says Mike Oswa More
Tusk, But Verify
The Oregon Zoo told voters it needed $125 million to make more room for elephants. It’s also making more elephants.
News In August 2008, Oregon Zoo elephant Rose-Tu gave birth to her first calf, Samudra—as if right on cue for the zoo to make a big request... More
A Sales Tax, Anybody?
Lawmakers are about to start debating a shakeup of the state’s tax system—and an unpopular idea leads the list.
News In the history of Oregon politics, there are few things voters have hated more than a sales tax. But when voters... More
Hold the Phone
Dwindling calls lead the state to propose ending its HIV/AIDS hotline.
News The dial tone on Oregon’s long-running HIV/AIDS hotline may soon go dead. Since 1987, the hotline has connected thousands of callers with testing and HIV/AIDS services—key to the early detec More
Hotseat: Jenna Burrell
A Portlander researches African internet scams—by actually going to interview the scammers in Ghana.
News Few with email haven’t had the privilege of a Nigerian “official” requesting their assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00... More
Bridge Builder
The next speaker of the Oregon House—Portland Democrat Tina Kotek—will face immediate tests of her leadership.
News Hundreds of raucous Democrats, crowded into the cavernous downtown Hilton Hotel ballroom for their election-night victory bash, roared...
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A Charlie Hales Christmas
The Mayor-elect is charging donors up to $2,500 to attend a pre-inaugural party.
News The invitation to the Dec. 4 reception at the Gilt Club makes it clear this would be a fundraiser for a winner: The red “Charlie Hales for Mayor” logo is amended with... More
Crossing the Bar
Two giants of Portland’s legal community stand trial on ethics charges.
News Barnes Ellis spent nearly 50 years at the pinnacle of Oregon’s corporate legal world. A magna cum laude graduate of both Yale University and Harvard Law School, Ellis occupied rarefied territo More
Unwelcome Mat
Housing discrimination based on sexual identity or orientation is against Oregon law. Who knew?
News When Mari Orr and her partner, Jennifer Vales, went looking for a new apartment last fall, Orr says, “We got a lot of odd looks.” Vales is a transgender woman, and she still had a ma More
Hogan’s Hero
A Eugene law firm plans a spendy party for a retiring federal judge.
News A party has got to be really swank to raise the eyebrows of the state’s lawyers. Yet a proposed retirement bash for U.S. District Court Judge Michael Hogan has many Oregon lawyers’ brows firmly More
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The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! 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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