Murmurs Sandy Rowe, editor of The Oregonian since 1993, told her newsroom Monday she’s retiring Dec. 31 in what she described as a voluntary cost-cutting move to preserve other jobs at the financially a ... More
Let Us Bowl You Over.
Murmurs Sandy Rowe, editor of The Oregonian since 1993, told her newsroom Monday she’s retiring Dec. 31 in what she described as a voluntary cost-cutting move to preserve other jobs at the financially a ... More
Boiled For Your Safe Consumption.
Murmurs Although John Minnis is no Tiger Woods, the secrecy around why Gov. Ted Kulongoski demanded Minnis’ immediate resignation last week as director of the Department of Public Safety Standards and T ... More
Our Reporting, Our Words.
Murmurs Five days after Portland Police Officers Aaron Dauchy and Christopher Humphreys created a furor (see “Reasonable Doubts,”) over their arrest of a 12-year-old girl on the MAX line, a lawsui ... More
Going Rogue Each Week
Murmurs Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. When Dan Staton was sworn in as interim Multnomah County Sheriff on Nov. 5, we hoped he would reverse former Sheriff Bob Skipper’s refusal to hand over ... More
You Don’t Need 60 Votes To Consider This Column.
Murmurs City Commissioner Dan Saltzman has said he will announce in January whether he’ll run for a fourth term in 2010. But Murmurs has learned Saltzman has already hired Emerald Bogue to be his ... More
Lists. A Great Way To Organize The News You Follow.
Murmurs Oregon gets its first cannabis cafe on Friday, Nov. 13—at 4:20 pm, naturally—thanks to the pro-legalization group Oregon NORML. Only people who are members both of the Oregon Medical Mari ... More
Landing On The Right Runway Every Week.
Murmurs Add the names of two more business leaders to the second effort to recall Mayor Sam Adams: As first reported on wweek.com, a fundraising email sent this week by chief petitioner Avel Gordly went out o ... More
News That Soars Even Without A Balloon.
Murmurs The chief petitioner and spokeswoman for the second attempt to recall Mayor Sam Adams will be former State Sen. Avel Gordly, who retired from the Legislature last year after 17 years representing Nort ... More
A Column Worthy Of A Nobel Peace Prize.
Murmurs Some Portland cops are crying nanny state after the Police Bureau recently “clarified” rules to cut sick-leave abuse. Cops must now call their sergeant to ask for sick leave rather than le ... More
A “Human Being” Column Chip Kelly Would Appreciate.
Murmurs A Multnomah County jury has found Del Monte Fresh Produce liable for unpaid wages to hundreds of employees who worked at the North Portland food-processing plant before a federal immigration raid in 2 ... More
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