Winners & Losers WINNERSOregon’s low-income debtors got a fighting chance last week to break free of the vicious payday-loan cycle. The House passed a bill that would cap the interest rate on loans of less than ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Cops, reporters and psychotic spouses won out last week when the state Supreme Court ruled people who pick through your trash aren't violating your privacy (see "Rubbish," WW, Dec. 24, 2002). ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Addition by subtraction last week for U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.). U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio's announcement that he won't run in the 2008 Senate Democratic primary means Smith dodges an Ore ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Congratulations to The Oregonian, which won the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for its coverage of rescue efforts in Southern Oregon last December for the Kim family. The O was ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Oregon's rural-urban divide widened when the Man announced last week, "Screw you, everywhere but Portland." According to U.N. global-warming experts, Eastern Oregon is but a couple degrees fr ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Score one hit for trans fat scolds ("No Fries for You," WW, Oct. 25, 2006). PGE Park's food concessionaires announced they're cutting the much-maligned heart-cloggers out of this season's sna ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surely breathed a deep sigh of relief last week as the Portland City Council voted 4-0 to support diplomatic relations with his nation. With the support ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Portland's antiwar protesters put other left-leaning cities to shame with Sunday's downtown rally drawing an estimated 15,000 people (though falling short of some organizers' earlier projecti ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS • Oregon's lightly burdened corporations dodged a tax increase...again. A legislative compromise on a "rainy-day fund" proceeded last week without changes to the annual corporate tax ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Rose Festival traditionalists scored a royal victory when organizers declared the century-old extravaganza safe for Disney-style stereotypes after all. Beginning this year, teenage "ambassado ...   More