For the City Hall throne and other races, we reveal our picks for the 2012 primary.
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Candidate Photography by Kenton Waltz
This local election season has had all the intrigue of Game of Thrones, with scheming, betrayals...
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Kurt Thomas can’t compete with Blaze. The NBA’s oldest
player and his team’s mascot are representing the Trail Blazers at
Russell Academy’s rundown elementary school gymnasium in Northeast
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So, you’re broke. Again.
There’s nothing left
in the liquor cabinet but orange bitters and banana schnapps, you’ve
smoked down all the butts in the ashtray, and your car is still par
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The Portland Harbor is a toxic embarrassment. And there’s plenty of blame to go around.
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In any good monster movie, the initial terror comes from
knowing there’s something awful out there—even though you don’t get a
good look at it.
It lurks in the
shadows or just bene
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Jefferson Smith built a political machine. Now he’s trying to drive it to City Hall.
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On a recent Saturday morning, a
sleepy-eyed retired auto-parts worker named Gavin Griffin opened the
door of his Sabin-neighborhood home to find a blond giant on his
doorstep.
The strang
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Illustrations by Hawk Krall
The scummiest election season, like, ever, is in full
swing and the level of American civil discourse is at an all-time low
(slut-shaming, anyone?). It seems like it
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From co-op to corporate boardroom, the making of a mayoral candidate.
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It’s dawn on a Tuesday, and 30 women have gathered in a
15th-floor conference room in the Standard Plaza at a sold-out breakfast
of coffee, melon and bagels. They’ve come to hear Portland’s
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A practical guide to riding through Portland’s damp seasons.
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The rain will stop. When it does, thousands of smiling
noobs will pedal shiny candy-colored cruisers and used mountain bikes
with fake suspension forks along our streets. They’ll ride to work a
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