Murmurs Some powerful interests want to light a fire under lawmakers who are considering giving the seven campuses of the Oregon University System more autonomy. As first reported at wweek.com, five men, incl More
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Big names—and money—behind university reform.
Murmurs Some powerful interests want to light a fire under lawmakers who are considering giving the seven campuses of the Oregon University System more autonomy. As first reported at wweek.com, five men, incl More
Murmurs: Foodie Fisticuffs—The Lawsuit
A pig fight in court, and a watchdog ascends.
Murmurs What began two years ago as a passion-fueled street brawl involving two foodies and a foreign pig has moved to an only slightly more civilized venue: the county courthouse. WW first reported the por More
Murmurs: Earl the Tariff Cutter
Unexpected pickets at Planned Parenthood.
Murmurs A federal grand jury in San Diego last week indicted Yonas Fikre and two others for attempting to conceal the transfer of $75,000 from the United States to the United Arab Emirates in 2010. Fikre is t More
Murmurs: Gambling on a New Lottery Boss.
Murmurs The Oregon Lottery generates more than $500 million a year, most of it from video gambling machines in bars and taverns. Longtime Lottery Commission Chairman Steve Ungar is stepping down and Gov. More
Murmurs: Somthing Rotten in Tomatogate
Have you been snared in an illegal speed trap?
Murmurs Former State Sen. Charlie Ringo (D-Beaverton) filed a class-action lawsuit April 3 in Multnomah County against the City of Portland, alleging the city has been improperly enforcing a temporary 35- More
Murmurs: Extra Mayoral With a Side of Pulitzer
Charlie Hales faces election complaint.
Murmurs An elections-law complaint against former City Commissioner Charlie Hales threatens his campaign for mayor. Portlander Seth Woolley, a Green Party activist, filed complaints late Tuesday with the More
Murmurs: DIY Taxidermist Winged by Feds
You’d think the Feds have bigger game to chase.
Murmurs DIY taxidermist Emily Humphries, whom we featured last fall (see “The Right Stuffing,” WW, Sept. 21, 2011), says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating her under the Migratory Bird Tr More
Murmurs: Lowballing the Willamette Cleanup
We never add sugar to our product.
Murmurs The coalition of property owners potentially on the hook for a Portland Harbor cleanup (see “What the Muck?,” WW, March 28, 2012) are pushing bargain-basement proposals. The companies say the More
Murmurs: Shannon’s Missed Putt
There’s a hole in the middle of his big plans.
Murmurs Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon for months now has been talking up his brainstorm for a nightlife project, a putt-putt golf and pool room called the Portland P Palace (see “Voodoo Child,” W More
Murmurs: Brown Shifts Election
Kate could move her election to another state.
Murmurs Secretary of State Kate Brown has made a decision critics say is nothing more than partisanship that’s inappropriate of the state’s elections officer. As first reported on wweek.com, Brown, More
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