Winners & Losers WINNERSAugust partyhoppers in Portland enjoyed a festive buffet over the weekend. The 10th Annual Providence BridgePedal cycled in more than 20,000 riders, and the Bite of Oregon didn't bite, either, ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSPortland's rival shoe titans both logged big weeks. Adidas, the German athletic empire with its North American headquarters in NoPo, took over up-and-coming Reebok. No one can predict how the m ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSBig Brother and his G-men haven't heard the last from Portland-area lawyer Brandon Mayfield. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled last week that Mayfield's challenge to the Patriot Act may go fo ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSBeaverton-based Nike rejoiced as one of its premier standard-bearers, cycling icon Lance Armstrong, won his seventh Tour de France. Nor does it appear Armstrong's retirement will take him out o ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSFans of Potter (Harry, not Mayor Tom) ended their two-year wait for fresh material outta Hogwarts when the latest J.K. Rowling tome landed with an earth-shattering thud. No spoilers here, but l ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSGays and lesbians won a symbolic victory when the state Senate passed a civil-unions bill. The plan to sanction same-sex unions is likely to die in the Republican-dominated house. Nonetheless, ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSGay couples with a taste for the Great White North now have the option of getting hitched anywhere in Canada. The Canadian Parliament's approval of same-sex marriages makes Oregon lawmakers' in ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSLike two estranged, transgendered partners making up, gay rights and civil unions are now reunited in the Legislature. Sponsors of a bill to create civil unions revived an anti-discrimination ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSThe Downing Street memo is finally moving from mainstream newspapers' inside pages to the front pages. Now people don't have to go to left-wing blogs to learn about the prescient British warnin ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSFish advocates cheered when federal Judge James Redden stuck it to the Bushies again last week, ordering that dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers release large amounts of water this summer to ...   More