Q & A National political blogging pioneers Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (www.dailykos.com) and Jerome Armstrong (www.mydd.com) were in town last week to promote their new book, Crashing the Gate, which co ... More
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and Jerome Armstrong
WW catches up with two prominent lefty bloggers during their visit to Portland.
Q & A National political blogging pioneers Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (www.dailykos.com) and Jerome Armstrong (www.mydd.com) were in town last week to promote their new book, Crashing the Gate, which co ... More
Lisa Grove
Portland's top pollster tells what's wrong with her fellow Dems and what's up with that tattoo on her left shoulder.
Q & A Ask Portland pollster Lisa Grove to describe her job and she'll tell you it's like being "the head chess player" in a campaign.Extend her simile and it's as if Grove has been playing speed chess for a ... More
Ann Nice
Departing head of Portland teachers' union paints a pretty gloomy picture.
Q & A Ann Nice's 35-year-plus teaching career ramped into overdrive the past four years when she became the public face for the Portland Association of Teachers.During her time as president of the 4,000-per ... More
Bill Hoefel
How this man runs the state's only women's prison.
Q & A Since the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for women opened in Wilsonville in 2002, the population for Oregon's only female prison has nearly doubled to just over 1,000 inmates this year. Correction ... More
Fred Fox
An ex-soldier tells all about being gay in a "don't ask, don't tell" Army.
Q & A Fred Fox is poised to embark on his first piece of activism.Fox, a 33-year-old gay man who left the Army in 2004 as a staff sergeant, has joined a national movement to reignite the debate about the mi ... More
Brenna Bell
Raising questions (instead of chickens) with the president of Try/On Life farm.
Q & A Since 2003, Brenna Bell has lived in a small apartment in a 1940s-era house at the Try/On Life Community Farm in Southwest Portland.More recently, Bell and the other 16 adult residents of the farm, a ... More
Laura Brown
Life in Dignity Village through the eyes of one longtime resident.
Q & A Five years after its informal start under the Fremont Bridge, Dignity Village has transformed into a self-governing community now negotiating a formal lease with the city for space through at least 20 ... More
Robert Greenwald
Into the limelight with the man who made Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
Q & A Despite a four-decade film career, a Peabody Award for the TV movie Sharing the Secret, and 25 Emmys, you might not know about director Robert Greenwald.Greenwald's documentaries—among them, 200 ... More
Jensine Larsen
The founder of a Portland-based mag for oppressed women and kids is PDO (pretty damn optimistic) about the world.
Q & A Jensine Larsen, founder of the Portland-based international women's magazine World Pulse, smiled while talking about the global AIDS crisis, last year's tsunami and Sudan's civil war. In fact, the 31- ... More
Amanda Fritz
The long trip of Portland's first council candidate to get public cash.
Q & A Old-time wisdom says education takes you places and that travel broadens the mind, but those bromides don't quite account for Amanda Fritz's path to Portland politics.Born in Yorkshire, England, Fritz ... More
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The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Richard Lariviere
The UO president talks about a big bond issue, Phil Knight and how sports is like Lady Gaga.
Planned Parenthood’s president on Congress, the HPV vaccine and why men use her group’s clinics. Dwight Holton
Oregon’s top federal prosecutor on the JTTF, Portland City Council and the iPad. Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama. Hotseat: David Fidanque
The head of Oregon’s ACLU calls B.S. On JTTF. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Richard Lariviere
The UO president talks about a big bond issue, Phil Knight and how sports is like Lady Gaga.
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