Rogue of the Week For all its concern about city workers’ welfare—like $103,000 in this year’s budget to promote employee health—you’d think the City of Portland would cooperate with the s ...   More

Rogue of the Week As the school year ends, the Rogue Desk recognizes another less celebratory transition: the passage of University of Oregon education professor Ed Kame’enui into Rogue-dom for profiting on the b ...   More

Rogue of the Week Spinning a basketball on your finger is an art. Try printing that art on paper, however, and the Roguish wrath of the Harlem Globetrotters will land on you like a bucket of water from the traveling ho ...   More

Rogue of the Week This week’s Rogue employs a variation on a time-honored election strategy, creating a political action group that tries to mislead voters, in part by pretending to be an aggrieved grass-roots mo ...   More

Rogue of the Week In the days before Oregon’s May 20 primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton made a dubious claim while barnstorming Kentucky, which held its primary the same day as the Beaver State. “I am leading in ...   More

Rogue of the Week Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that aims to register single women to vote across the country. So Portlander Jennifer Elder and her husband of 11 years, ...   More

Rogue of the Week For a big-league political consultant, this week’s Rogue, Elaine Franklin, made a rookie mistake in the current election cycle. Franklin is best known for zealously protecting her former boss a ...   More

Rogue of the Week Just six months ago, the Rogue Desk slammed a giant “reject” stamp on the Oregon Employment Department (WW, Oct. 10, 2007) for going after Mississippi Studios, a small concert venue and re ...   More

Rogue of the Week Before he became the University of Oregon’s president, Dave Frohnmayer spearheaded an effort as a legislator to revamp Oregon’s public-records law in 1979. As attorney general in the 1980s ...   More

Rogue of the Week State Sen. Kate Brown, running in the Democratic primary for secretary of state, has won our endorsement in every election since 1992. But Brown wins our Rogue this week for showing two faces in the ...   More