Rogue of the Week It’s bad enough subprime lenders have run the entire U.S. securities market aground. But when they’re accused of picking on an ailing 72-year-old grandma from Portland, that lands them in ...   More

Rogue of the Week The 2008 election is more than a year away, and already the machine is picking targets. Its first victim: Steve Novick, the underdog Democratic candidate who hopes to win the May primary and face Oreg ...   More

Rogue of the Week Forget Social Security being the third rail of American politics. The Defense Department budget has supplanted it, since the House of Representatives voted this month in the middle of a failed war wit ...   More

Rogue of the Week Obscure government bodies thinking you can escape the Rogue ’s notice, think again. Peninsula Drainage District No. 2 makes this week’s cut because it’s in a hell of a hurry to cut ...   More

Rogue of the Week Small-business owners have enough headaches without other entrepreneurs preying on their fear of government regulation. And that's just what this week's Rogue is guilty of doing. Compliance Documents ...   More

Rogue of the Week The polite people at Hoyt Arboretum don't want to point fingers. But the curmudgeons at the Rogue Desk are more than willing to do so. Portland Parks and Recreation? The Rogue Desk wants you! Here's ...   More

Rogue of the Week This week's Rogue showcase features Portland's own two-part Axis of Evil, complete with missing teeth and anonymous evildoers. Here's our local intelligence report: Sometime after midnight July 17, P ...   More

Rogue of the Week We interrupt our regularly scheduled roster of villainy with the following Rogue update. We've learned Portland divorce lawyer Allan Knappenberger—a former WW coverboy (see "S.O.B., Esq.," WW, ...   More

Rogue of the Week Unlike much of the public, Rogue Central respects and admires Oregon's legislators. So we groaned in the 11th hour of the 2007 session when lawmakers, led by Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) ...   More

Rogue of the Week As revealed last week in a four-part Washington Post series detailing the veep's power, Cheney's bureaucratic meddling led directly to the West Coast's largest-ever fish kill when 77,000 Coho salmon p ...   More