The Nose The Nose loves his steak medium rare, his steelhead drowned in butter. And he usually cares about Oregon's rivers only on the Fourth of July, when he floats an inner tube on the Clackamas with a sixer ...   More

The Nose The Fleet came and went. The lawn chairs popped up faster than teenage meth dealers on downtown sidewalks. The sweet smell of elephant ears still lingers in the air. It's time for the Nose to come out ...   More

The Nose At last! The ultra-boring Era of Good Feelings at City Hall is over, and the Nose couldn't be happier.Ever since Tom "The Silver Fox" Potter took over this year as mayor, Southwest 4th has been way to ...   More

The Nose Few things excite the Nose like hearing "Republican" and "gay sex scandal" in the same breath. So the Proboscis is loving the news that the FBI is investigating Spokane Mayor Jim West for trying to st ...   More

The Nose The Nose felt sorta bad for jumping on Oregon Democrats and PacifiCorp last week. To refresh, PacifiCorp collected an extra $70 million from electric ratepayers for the purpose of paying taxes. But sh ...   More

The Nose Enough!As if we needed any more evidence that the end is nigh and that time has stopped, consider the paradox blowing the Nose's mind right now.1) Kevin Mannix is making sense!2) The Democrats in Oreg ...   More

The Nose The Nose can't imagine anyone more profoundly unelectable than himself. The Schnozz's past (particularly the "Lost Year" in El Salvador) is way too colorful. His track record of accomplishment amounts ...   More

The Nose The Nose is just back from a long weekend in Eastern Oregon. Specifically, Wallowa County, a spectacular place which, the Nose fears, many of his fey urbanite readers couldn't find on a map. (Fortunat ...   More

The Nose The Nose's extended sabbatical was bliss. He studiously ignored the so-called "news." The start of PopeQuest 2005, the latest tape from Tom DeLay's mountain hideout, Phil Busse's exciting vow to catch ...   More

The Nose The Nose has been feeling a bit queasy. And it had nothing to do with the big-ass man-fest called Super Bowl Sunday.Something else was making the Nose out of sorts. First he thought it was the half-an ...   More