Q & A When Ted Wheeler took on incumbent Diane Linn for Multnomah County chair last year, WW branded him a political dilettante. But Wheeler's first big move less than four months into his job was a strong ... More
Ted Wheeler
Multnomah County's supremo talks budget cuts and defunding the drunk tank.
Q & A When Ted Wheeler took on incumbent Diane Linn for Multnomah County chair last year, WW branded him a political dilettante. But Wheeler's first big move less than four months into his job was a strong ... More
Sam Adams
Sam is silent no more on charter reform, Mayor Potter and much more.
Q & A Forgive us if we've been confused by City Commissioner Sam Adams' positions on charter reform. Five years ago, Adams backed a charter reform effort when he was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz. ... More
David Rogers
A Measure 11 critic thinks the time's ripe for a second look at mandatory sentencing for juveniles.
Q & A Fourteen years after Oregon voters approved Measure 11, David Rogers believes they're ready to revisit the idea. Rogers, director of the Portland-based nonprofit Partnership for Safety and Justice, w ... More
John Perkins
An evangelical civil-rights activist brings his message of community and conservative family values to our liberal city.
Q & A John Perkins believes social change is possible, but he knows it doesn't come easy. A sharecropper's son with a third-grade education, Perkins began ministering about reconciliation between blacks an ... More
Logan Kleier
Frustrated with the city's free wireless? Portland's wi-fi man explains why you should be patient.
Q & A Logan Kleier is Portland's official wi-fi guy. Kleier manages the ambitious "Unwire Portland" project, which aims to offer free wireless Internet access to 95 percent of the city by mid-2008. The ne ... More
Lisa Shannon
How can a Portland woman help women and kids in war-torn Congo?
Q & A Three years ago, Northeast Portland resident Lisa Shannon says she couldn't even "pick out Congo on a map." Then, while home sick one afternoon, Shannon (pictured, right) watched an Oprah episode foc ... More
Raed Jarrar
This speaker at the downtown antiwar rally this Sunday knows more than most about Iraq. He lived there, so listen up.
Q & A Like everyone you know, Raed Jarrar has an opinion on Iraq. Unlike most everyone else, he grew up there. Jarrar—an outspoken antiwar activist who will address the antiwar rally in Portland on ... More
RON PAUL
The Portland Public Market's biggest fan tells his fellow foodies not to give up their dream project after seven years and counting.
Q & A As you read this, Portland's Ron Paul is 8,000 miles away in Indiatouting a local project that's yet to leave the ground in his hometown.The 57-year-old restaurateur-turned-bureaucrat's proposed Portl ... More
Ishmael Beah
An ex-child soldier's trip from Sierra Leone's war to a Starbucks bookshelf.
Q & A Growing up in a fishing village in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah passed the time dancing to Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Heavy D and the Boyz, memorizing the lyrics to compete in local talent shows.That all e ... More
Ralph Nader
He's been a consumer-advocate legend and a political pariah. And now for something completely different— a book on parenting.
Q & A Mentioning Ralph Nader's name to some Portlanders is like sprinkling salt on a wound.The recoil his name sometimes provokes in liberal circles is a recent development after a 35-year hero's run that b ... More
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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. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. 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. Hotseat: Mikey Kampmann
Portland drops at the South Pole.
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