Winners & Losers WINNERS* Nuke haters are glowing with glee over plans this spring to raze the 500-foot Trojan cooling tower 40 miles north of Portland. One activist described the nuclear plant, which closed in 1993 a ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSThese tail pipes smell like California. Enviros cashed in last week with news that Oregon is on its way to adopting California's tough emissions standards for new vehicles. The move would be We ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSTV weathermen and women got to regale us "Storm Team" style with all the vagaries among snow, sleet and freezing rain. Conclusions from hours of coverage: Stay inside when it's cold, living eas ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSHigh-school kids and teachers can breathe easier after winning a reprieve from the curriculum-killing Certificate of Initial Mastery. State schools Superintendent Susan Castillo pulled the plug ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSNext party for the champion University of Portland women's soccer team: at noon Friday in Pioneer Courthouse Square.Nostalgic Dems got a whiff of imagined past glories when ex-Gov. John Kitzhab ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSIt's official: The class act of Oregon athletics can be found in NoPo. The University of Portland women's soccer team macerated Notre Dame and heads to the NCAA semifinals in Texas this week. T ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSJohn and Lucy Buchanan's departure from the Portland Art Museum leaves a new wing and big expense accounts to fill. But shed no tears for rank-and-file museum employees, who have been getting b ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSEconomic indicators for downtown Portland headed upward with word of plans for the area's first new high-rise office building in five years. The 15-story building, slated for construction at So ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSPortland Public Schools got some good financial news for a change. Two large foundations are giving them nearly $11 million, over half of which will go to teacher training in middle and high sc ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSOregon's hunger rate isn't worst in the nation any more. Thanks to a harder push on getting food stamps to folks, Oregon has improved since 2001 to become the 17th-hungriest state. Improvement? ...   More