News A piece in today's print edition of WW provides a preview of a big single-payer conference coming to Portland this weekend and the uphill battle ahead for single-payer advocates in Oregon trying to get their bill passed in the state Legislature.

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News While supporters of same-sex marriage in Oregon tell their stories in hopes of getting a future measure on the state ballot, their counterparts elsewhere are fighting their own battles to achieve the same goal of marriage rights.There's a    More

Q & A The point man for those urging Portland to rejoin the Joint Terrorism Task Force is Dwight Holton. The 45-year-old interim U.S. attorney for Oregon,    More

News Keith Olbermann's recent departure from MSNBC left one prominent ex-Portlander giddy last night. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who worked in Portland in the mid-1980s at KATU as a reporter and anchor, was often criticized by Olbermann on Olbermann's show.

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A Multnomah County grand jury has concluded that the fatal Portland police shooting of a homeless man on Jan. 2 in an abandoned car wash in southeast Portland was justified.

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Today's withering front-page piece in The Oregonian about the mass staff defections from the office of Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.)—and the congressman's run of bizarre behavior—apparently isn't a disqualifier from getting the nod to an invite to a state dinner at the White House.

The guest list for tonight's state dinner (PDF) for Chinese President Hu Jintao includes Wu, a long-time critic of China's human rights policies. Here's the rest of the list:    More

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For a five-term state representative who we expect most Oregonians couldn't have picked out of a lineup before this month, Democrat Mitch Greenlick has certainly vaulted into prominence with the 2011 Legislature barely one week old.

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This time it's 36-year-old center Marcus Camby, who injured his left knee in Monday night's win over Minnesota.

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Oregon Attorney General John Kroger jumped into the discussion today over whether Portland should rejoin the federal   More

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Here's a conversation starter: A pair of Oregon State University public health researchers have concluded after looking at data dealing with heterosexual couples between the ages of 18 to 25 that the partners in those relationships    More