Q & A Life is full of choices that will just drive you insane.For instance: Do you finish your full-ride scholarship at a respected—but very, very low-key—Catholic university in North Portland, ... More
Alejandro Salazar
From North Portland's bluff to Down Under's bikini zone—amazing how far you can get just kicking a ball.
Q & A Life is full of choices that will just drive you insane.For instance: Do you finish your full-ride scholarship at a respected—but very, very low-key—Catholic university in North Portland, ... More
Wilma Mankiller
Ex-Cherokee Chief, and current UO law professor, sounds off about how U.S. society judges tribes.
Q & A Wilma Mankiller muses that perhaps her last name is why she gets so much attention.But it's more than a name that earned Mankiller a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 and a Woman of the Year award ... More
Nate McMillan
New Trail Blazers coach learning just how hard rebuilding this team and its reputation will be.
Q & A With the Trail Blazers off to a 2-3 start heading into tonight's home game against Chicago and attendance hitting rock-bottom at the Rose Garden, it certainly looks as if the Blazers are on their way ... More
Barry Lynn
Where the dividing lines lie for a national advocate of church-state separation.
Q & A Barry Lynn, head of a national organization fighting to keep the separation between church and state, is no God-hater. In fact, the 57-year-old executive director of Americans United is an ordained mi ... More
Heywood Sanders
Convention Center critic dumps on Portland's plans for a $140 million convention hotel.
Q & A The Portland Development Commission is scheduled to select a developer today for the long-discussed $140 million Convention Center headquarters hotel in inner Northeast.But while PDC executive directo ... More
Marie Wachlin
Portland prof instructs public-school teachers how to teach the Bible in class.
Q & A For Marie Wachlin, it's clear that knowing the Bible gives public-school students an edge in class.Wachlin, a 63-year-old adjunct professor at Concordia University's College of Education, bases her be ... More
Joseph Wilson
Ex-ambassador turned Bush critic says the debate over Iraq has been lost in the back-and-forth over him.
Q & A On July 6, 2003, Joseph Wilson transformed himself from low-profile Beltway insider to leading critic of President George W. Bush's foreign policy.That was the day Wilson, a retired former ambassador ... More
Pamela Freedman
Portland renter frustrated but wiser after two condo conversions in the past decade.
Q & A Pamela Freedman is a transplanted 36-year-old Portlander who's rented in Northwest for the past decade. Since moving here from Arizona, where she completed her MBA, Freedman has been evicted twice-thi ... More
Jonathan Kozol
Noted education author riffing on "apartheid" education in U.S.
Q & A For 40 years, Jonathan Kozol has written passionately about inner-city schools and students. In Kozol's latest book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, he blas ... More
Jim Riswold
Nike ad designer finds success, gets leukemia, turns to Hitler dolls. Huh?
Q & A Let's say you're one of the most successful advertising guys alive. You paired Michael Jordan with Spike Lee. You made Tiger Woods juggle golf balls. And now you've got cancer. What do you do?For 47-y ... More
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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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