Rogue of the Week Jonathan Magnus, owner of 16-year-old Pdx Pedicab, figures city regulation of his eight pedicabs and the rest of his industry is inevitable. But Magnus would like to have had some say in that regulati ...   More

Rogue of the Week A rally April 5 against a 12-lane Columbia River Crossing featured many articulate speakers among those who showed up at Waterfront Park on a Sunday at noon. They conveyed the myriad Roguish reasons w ...   More

Rogue of the Week Writing a news story about suicide is one of many difficult tasks journalists face. Experts say media coverage can provoke “suicide contagion,” if the coverage glamorizes the death or offe ...   More

Rogue of the Week You might say Oregon lawmakers are addicted to secrecy. The state Legislature passed one of the nation’s most progressive public records laws in 1973. Since then, our elected officials have ...   More

Rogue of the Week When President Obama speaks, people listen—except for this week’s Rogue, the Oregon Education Association. On March 10, Obama laid out his vision for education. He promoted teacher merit ...   More

Rogue of the Week Kara Garland, who works at the Powell’s Books outlet at Portland International Airport, doesn’t think her appearance is extreme. Not by Portland standards, anyway. She used Manic Panic to ...   More

Rogue of the Week Make no mistake—we love our Oregon beers. If there’s one reliable friend to keep our mood up during this crappy recession, it’s a tall glass of Amnesia or Hair of the Dog. But when t ...   More

Rogue of the Week Every once in a while kids must teach parents a lesson, and right now class is in session in Lake Oswego. As originally reported last week by the Lake Oswego Review, the Waluga Junior High School Pare ...   More

Rogue of the Week With 27 complaints filed with Oregon’s attorney general since 2002 against Wholesale Merchant Processing, the company that sells and leases credit- and debit-card machines makes for a slam-dunk ...   More

Rogue of the Week This week’s Rogue, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, seems to have forgotten he represents Oregonians—550,000 of whom are PacifiCorp customers—rather than PacifiCorp. At issue is Senate Bill 76, ...   More