News Ten percent of Americans—children, teens and adults—take antidepressants. Whether it’s Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro, Effexor or Cymbalta, 30 million of us take a pill daily in hopes it wil ... More
Bitter Pill
A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.”
News Ten percent of Americans—children, teens and adults—take antidepressants. Whether it’s Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro, Effexor or Cymbalta, 30 million of us take a pill daily in hopes it wil ... More
More Monkey Business
News Two years after a whistleblower revealed unsettling news about conditions at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (see "The Spy Who Loved Monkeys," WW, Feb. 7, 2001), another former employ ... More
Losing Patients
A Portland surgeon's troubles raise questions
about who's watching the docs.
News Kim Wayson is one of approximately three dozen neurosurgeons in Portland. These are the men and women who are paid several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to do everything from brain surge ... More
The Final Chapter
News A year and a half after Jon Beckel's mysterious death, a civil trial began Monday alleging that Legacy-Good Samaritan Hospital contributed to his demise.Beckel, the co-founder of the eclectic dining ... More
RAGE against the Gene
News Sporting biohazard suits and hefting papier-m‰ché corn cobs, activists with Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering may look like a cartoon army, but after two years of protests at ... More
Jailhouse Walk
News Will the streets of Multnomah County soon be crawling with crooks? That's the question Sheriff Dan Noelle wants you to ponder as he grapples with $6 million in budget cuts for fiscal 2002-2003.To ... More
The ACORN that imploded
Squeezed between a union drive and a financial crisis, an activist group cracks.
News Hollie Hefferman is no armchair activist. She spent last fall working for ACORN, a fire-breathing social-justice group that mixes community organizing with in-your-face theatrics. As an organizer ... More
CITY HALL SMACK DOWN
WHY DO SO MANY CRITICS WANT TO REARRANGE PORTLAND'S FACE?
News On Friday, Mayor Vera Katz will deliver her State of the City address. While she wouldn't make a copy of her speech available before press time, it's a safe assumption she'll focus a lot of attent ... More
Big Dog Goes for the Ball
News The godfather of Portland politics has come out against a measure aimed at changing the commission form of government.Former Mayor Neil Goldschmidt last week joined former Mayor Bud Clark in blastin ... More
A Fine Mess at City Hall
News For a city with a $14 million hole in its budget, Portland seems awfully nonchalant about collecting past-due bills. While the Water Bureau's billing woes are well known, most people don't realize ... More
Top Articles from Philip Dawdy
Bitter Pill
A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” Dog. Gone.
The strange case of the missing boxer, the accused celebs and the underground animal-rescue railroad. The ACORN that imploded
Squeezed between a union drive and a financial crisis, an activist group cracks. Secrets & Lies
How well do you really know Portland? The Flickering Torch of Racism
Losing Patients
A Portland surgeon's troubles raise questions
about who's watching the docs. A Close Shave
HYDRO HOGS
Which Portlanders use the most water? The Final Chapter
A Fine Mess at City Hall
A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” Dog. Gone.
The strange case of the missing boxer, the accused celebs and the underground animal-rescue railroad. The ACORN that imploded
Squeezed between a union drive and a financial crisis, an activist group cracks. Secrets & Lies
How well do you really know Portland? The Flickering Torch of Racism
Losing Patients
A Portland surgeon's troubles raise questions
about who's watching the docs. A Close Shave
HYDRO HOGS
Which Portlanders use the most water? The Final Chapter
A Fine Mess at City Hall
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