News Here's an update to the analysis that Casey Jarman wrote in today's WW of potential Portland Trail Blazers playoff opponents in the first round: the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant may be a ...   More

News After reading some of the commentary on the upcoming end of Glenn Beck's TV hootenanny on Fox, I uncovered a copy of Common Nonsense on my desk to re-read parts of Alexander Zaitchik's entertaining 2010 takedown of Beck and his shtick.There are many worthwhile summaries of Beck at different stages o...   More

News If you're a believer in the existence of a conspiracy that is using marriage rights for same-sex couples to advance an "insidious" agenda, you'd better spend the next 90 seconds watching this new video from Freedom to Marry. The video from an organization devoted to marriage rights...   More

News Former Portland Wrestling icon Jesse Ventura resurfaced a couple years back with a TV show focused on conspiracies as his next move after a post-grappling career as Minnes...   More

News  Former Portland Trail Blazers center Arvydas Sabonis will be enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame this summer.The announcement today of Sabonis' entry into the Hall of Fame as part of a class that includes Dennis Rodman, Chris Mullin and Artis Gilmore make...   More

News The latest step in Basic Rights Oregon's effort to bring marriage rights to same-sex couples in Oregon will become visible next week with a statewide TV ad campaign and a direct mailing to households in the Portland metro area.BRO executive director Jeana Frazzini told WW in an interview earlier this week tha...   More

News  Add U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) to the list of liberal Democrats raising serious questions about President Obama's decision to have U.S. forces be part of an international offensive against th...   More

News  Next weekend there will be a "Politics of Love"  celebration in Portland to mark the seventh anniversary of when same-sex marriages enjoyed a brief window of legal approval in Multnomah County.And people attending the March 25-27 events presented by the First Unitarian Church will have some f...   More

News Here's a mini-update to a piece in this week's WW about the prospects of public campaign finance returning to the 2012 ballot for Portland voters to consider.
One of the biggest supporters of the effort last fall to retain public financing as an option in city races was New Seasons co-founder Brian Rohter.   More

News  I'm usually a big fan of when ESPN goes the documentary route and was intrigued by what I saw of the network's March Madness-timed film the other night on the "Fab Five."For no...   More