Rogue of the Week Following President Obama’s inauguration Tuesday, the nation’s focus will return to his promise of closing the achievement gap among public-school students. It’s an important task. A ...   More

Rogue of the Week Nothing attracts the Rogue Desk’s attention like a whiff of hypocrisy. In 2007, the Legislature passed a sweeping ethics measure, Senate Bill 10, aimed at limiting lobbyists’ influence in ...   More

Rogue of the Week Plenty of us little people in Portland wish we could make it to Washington, D.C., for Barack Obama’s inauguration. This is the guy Oregon put over the top in the Democratic primaries and in the ...   More

Rogue of the Week Here’s how bad it got for the Oregon GOP in 2008: The “Republican” candidate running for the state’s top law enforcement post in November was a former aide to President Clinton ...   More

Rogue of the Week When WW makes a factual error, we run a correction. When we make an error of judgment? A lump of coal in our stocking. So why are we the Rogue? Because WW’s marketing and promotions department r ...   More

Rogue of the Week With 12,998 Americans killed in alcohol-related traffic wrecks in 2007—including 150 in Oregon and 195 in Washington state—drunken drivers should get no breaks. And since that goes double ...   More

Rogue of the Week The Oregon Pacific Railroad and Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation earned Rogue infamy Sunday evening for kicking a woman off their Holiday Express train—all because she’s in a wheelchair. Ar ...   More

Rogue of the Week It’s one thing to be late with your rent and evicted the next day. But the late-rent tale takes a Roguish twist when you’re evicted while in the hospital after getting your landlord’ ...   More

Rogue of the Week Families of troops in Iraq have enough fear and stress this holiday season without debt collectors adding illegal scare tactics. For allegedly harassing a soldier’s family over unpaid bills, we& ...   More

Rogue of the Week Just because Portland’s Private-for-Hire Transportation Board of Review is an obscure body doesn’t mean it lacks a Rogue. In fact, board member Butch Miller goes into our driver’s se ...   More