Cover Story Last week, Mayor Sam Adams provided reporters a peek at his proposed city budget, which is set for a City Council vote on June 16. The mayor points with pride More
Dirt Roads, Dead Ends
Portland has 59 miles of unpaved streets. Guess who promised to fix them.
Cover Story Last week, Mayor Sam Adams provided reporters a peek at his proposed city budget, which is set for a City Council vote on June 16. The mayor points with pride More
Best New Band 2011
The 10 local acts Portland’s music insiders are talking about (and listening to).
Cover Story Quick! Name your 350 favorite Portland bands. Yeah, it’s kind of a tough one. But that number represents the shared wisdom of the 161 local music experts More
Schools Of Salmon Got Your Money. Why Not Schools For Kids?
Our election picks for school boards and the money measures.
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9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
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Drip City
Everything old is new again in Portland’s coffee scene.
Cover Story Why is Portland, of all places, the capital of American coffee culture? There’s no overt explanation why a city celebrated for its slacker attitude also devotes so much energy to the roasting and More
The Truth Has Set Her Free
What Oregon’s “Resident Contrarian” says about politics, race and battling depression: An excerpt from Avel Gordly’s memoir.
Cover Story As the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon Senate, Avel Gordly has a unique perspective on politics More
Your Teacher Is F’d
The Oregon Education Association gave Kitzhaber more than a million bucks, and now he’s giving it pay cuts and pink slips.
Cover Story Someday soon, Gov. John Kitzhaber will sit across a conference table from Richard Sanders, the little-known man More
Plastic Crusader
Can Stiv Wilson ban the bag in Oregon?
Cover Story The most significant Oregon environmentalist of the moment was once arrested on more than 100 counts of petty theft. When Stiv Wilson was a sophomore at the University of Montana, he and his friend More
Children Of A Higher God
The members of the Santo Daime church fought for the right to drink hallucinogenic tea. And they’re serving it to kids.
Cover Story Three times a month, the 39 members of the Church of the Divine Rose gather in a Portland VFW Hall at Southeast 9th More
Strange Wu
Why did Congressman David Wu think staffers “threatened to shut down his campaign”?
Cover Story Rep. David Wu says spasms of severe neck pain caused him to seek painkillers from a donor in a pre-election episode one week before he won re-election Nov. 2. The Oregon Democrat now acknowledges t More
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