Murmurs Tom Chamberlain, a former Portland firefighter and current president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, says he’s strongly considering running for Portland mayor, as first reported by wweek.com. His major op   More

Murmurs It was a bike crash heard around the nation: On Sunday night, July 31, former University of Oregon and NFL quarterback Joey Harrington, 33, was hospitalized with a broken clavicle, broken rib and pun   More

Murmurs Last week the Seattle Weekly published a hard-hitting article that sought to shed a different light on a 2000 Oregon killing. Liysa Northon maintains she shot her husband, Chris, in the head at a Wal   More

Murmurs Jonah Edelman, the chief executive of Stand for Children, a national education reform group based in Portland, has been forced to eat his words after bragging in a June 28 video about outfoxing Illin   More

Murmurs Oregon Ethics Commission Executive Director Ron Bersin has recommended the panel dismiss complaints against the Oregon State Treasury’s chief investment officer, Ron Schmitz, and two senior managers   More

Murmurs Incumbent Portland City Commissioners rarely lose—only two have since 1970. But Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Southwest Portland), who announced Tuesday that she’ll challenge Position 1 incumbent Amanda Frit   More

Murmurs As the Legislature finishes the 2011 session, pols are turning their thoughts toward their own job security. Two of the juiciest rumors circulating in the Portland delegation are that Rep. Tina Kot   More

Murmurs In 2009, no legislators fought harder against proposed Metolius Basin destination resorts than Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland) and Rep. Brian Clem (D-Salem). Now, Banfield Pet Hospital founder Scott C   More

Murmurs Emily Harris, the radio host of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud morning talk show, says she’s been asked to leave the show and the network by OPB management. David Miller, the show†  More

Murmurs Oregonians can now see two very different accounts of what happened in the Oregon Department of Energy investigation, in which four employees were accused of steering state business to Cylvia Hayes, G   More