Q & A When Jeff Merkley began his rookie session last year in the Senate, all looked bright for his fellow Democrats. The Democrats had huge majorities in the 111th Congress and were riding Barack Obama&rsq ... More
Jeff Merkley
The Democratic Senator sounds off on dysfunction (the Senate’s), Obama, Afghanistan and his party’s prospects.
Q & A When Jeff Merkley began his rookie session last year in the Senate, all looked bright for his fellow Democrats. The Democrats had huge majorities in the 111th Congress and were riding Barack Obama&rsq ... More
Daryl Turner
The new police union president talks about stalled contract negotiations, James Chasse and public trust.
Q & A Officer Daryl Turner took office July 23 as president of the Portland Police Association at a crucial time for the powerful, 900-member union. Last November’s protest rally by cops in front of C ... More
Richard Lariviere
The UO president talks about a big bond issue, Phil Knight and how sports is like Lady Gaga.
Q & A For a guy with a doctorate in Sanskrit, Richard Lariviere is pretty plain-spoken. The 60-year-old president of the University of Oregon was in Portland last week touting a new funding and governance c ... More
Tim Boyle
The money man behind the Adams recall says “I don’t have a vendetta against the mayor.”
Q & A The second campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams announced Tuesday it failed to gather enough signatures to force an election. Former state Sen. Avel Gordly served as that campaign’s public face. B ... More
Brendan Phillips
What this advocate for homeless people thinks about Mayor Sam Adams’ sidewalk proposal.
Q & A City sidewalks may seem pretty mundane components of urban infrastructure—just a bunch of concrete slabs. But they’re more than just places to walk, shop and rest. They’re public fo ... More
Fred Hansen
Some questions for the man who’s been responsible at TriMet.
Q & A TriMet general manager Fred Hansen’s announcement last week that he would leave after 11 1/2 years comes at a very busy time for the agency. Months after killing free bus service in Fareless Squ ... More
Dan Saltzman
The city commissioner talks about overseeing the police bureau in “dark” times.
Q & A The past three months have not been kind to City Commissioner Dan Saltzman. Since Mayor Sam Adams took the unusual step of not keeping the Police Bureau and put Saltzman in charge of it, Saltzman has ... More
Gov. Ted Kulongoski
Why the governor wants to deal with your kicker check in his last session.
Q & A The successful campaign for Measures 66 and 67 had barely ended last week before Gov. Ted Kulongoski began arguing that Oregon should reform the state’s “kicker” law. Kulongoski hope ... More
Max Rameau
Why this man goes to foreclosed homes.
Q & A Long before the housing crisis smashed into the country, Max Rameau founded an organization to aggressively find housing for the homeless. How aggressive? In 2006, Rameau’s Take Back the Land se ... More
Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama.
Q & A (L) THEN: Weddington was 26 when she argued Rose v. Wade before the Supreme Court. (R) NOW: Weddington, now 64, still worries about women’s access to all reproductive options. When Sarah Weddin ... More
Top Articles from Q & A
Hotseat: Cecile Richards
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.
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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