News HemCon Medical Technologies was once one of Oregon’s rare biotech successes. The Portland-based company won worldwide fame for its innovative bandages that use a substance found in shrim More
The Scarlet Letter
A prominent lawyer blasts the founders and board of a bankrupt biotech pioneer.
News HemCon Medical Technologies was once one of Oregon’s rare biotech successes. The Portland-based company won worldwide fame for its innovative bandages that use a substance found in shrim More
Mr. Smith Runs From Salem
Jefferson Smith wants to be a “progressive” mayor. His legislative record isn’t helping.
News Gunshots were fired at least 11 times in the last two months in the outer-eastside neighborhoods currently represented by state... More
Hales Pocketed Big Checks Just Before Limiting Contributions
News Back on June 21, mayoral candidate Charlie Hales announced he'd limit contributions for the Nov. 6 general election to $600 and would not take any out of state money. Turns out he was grabbing as many big checks as he could—right up until the time he promised he wouldn't.Currently, candidates are in a 30-day reporting window, which means under elections law they don't have to report contri... More
University of Oregon Counsel Slams Oregon DOJ
Says Kroger's Agency Retaliated and Blackballed Law Firm
News Earlier this week, WW reported that lawyers for Mark Long, the former director of the Oregon Department of Energy, are seeking $432,000 in legal fees for their representation of Long in a case against the Oregon Department of Justice.
Marion County Judge Thomas Hart previously awarded Long's lawyers at the Harrang Long Gary Rudnick firm fees in the case, Long v. Kroger, which centered around t... More
Knute Buehler Reports Big Checks
Takes cash-on-hand lead from Kate Brown
News Dr. Knute Buehler, the GOP nominee for Secretary of State, will need lots of money for his challenge to incumbent Kate Brown.Buehler, an orthopedic surgeon from Bend, lacks the kind of name recognition that Brown got by serving in the Legislature from 1991 to 2008, finishing as Senate Democratic majority leader. He got off to a fast fundraising start last year but slowed this year.
Buehler cam... More
New Report Says Canadian Ports Not an Option for U.S. Coal
News A new report from Seattle's Sightline Institute says that one of the arguments for building coal export terminals in Oregon and Washington does not hold water.Supporters of plans to build new U.S. export terminals for sending Powder River coal from Wyoming to Asia have argued that if we d... More
Troutdale Energy Project Woos Kitzhaber
News As The Oregonian reported this morning, a New York investment firm calling itself Troutdale Energy Center LLC is proposing to build a $680 million gas-fired electricity generating plant at the site of a defunct aluminum plant in east Multnomah County.Whether the plant gets built or w... More
The Muck, Raked
What really happens to the food scraps you leave out on the curb.
Cover Story Stacy Jones rolls a green composting cart up to the Cloudburst Recycling truck he’s parked at Southeast 21st Avenue and Pine Street. Jones latches the metal bar on the front of the bi More
Chief Petitioner Throws in Towel on Anti-Abortion Measure
News Tomorrow is the deadline for turning in signatures for measures aimed at the November 6 general election ballot. Although it promises to be a busy day at the Secretary of State's elections division, neither of the abortion-related measures circulating will make the ballot.One measure Initiative Petition 22, defined life as beginning at fertilization and said "no person shall be denied the right to... More
Red Card
Jefferson Smith says he regrets acts of unsportsmanlike conduct that have gotten him banned from the court and field.
News Politics is a rough business—but it’s light duty compared to lining up against Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) on the basketball court or... More
Top Articles from NIGEL JAQUISS
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More Than a Victim. The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. The Crucifixion of Geoff Thompson
One man’s obsession with the Viewpoint Inn left smoking ruins, stiffed creditors and angry brides. Your Teacher Is F’d
The Oregon Education Association gave Kitzhaber more than a million bucks, and now he’s giving it pay cuts and pink slips. A Bridge Too False
Turns out most of the case for the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing Isn’t true. Bad Neighbor
One wealthy Portlander’s tool kit for conflict resolution: tasers, chain saws and “coffee bombs.” WHO KNEW
Long before Neil Goldschmidt's secret became public, many influential Oregonians knew something about it. Chief Looks Like A Lady
Commissioner Leonard takes a fire ax to the glass ceiling in choosing a chief for a troubled fire bureau. Brown’s Labored Credibility
A legal opinion shows the Secretary of State mishandled the labor commissioner’s race. Bus Boy
Jefferson Smith built a political machine. Now he’s trying to drive it to City Hall.
More Than a Victim. The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. The Crucifixion of Geoff Thompson
One man’s obsession with the Viewpoint Inn left smoking ruins, stiffed creditors and angry brides. Your Teacher Is F’d
The Oregon Education Association gave Kitzhaber more than a million bucks, and now he’s giving it pay cuts and pink slips. A Bridge Too False
Turns out most of the case for the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing Isn’t true. Bad Neighbor
One wealthy Portlander’s tool kit for conflict resolution: tasers, chain saws and “coffee bombs.” WHO KNEW
Long before Neil Goldschmidt's secret became public, many influential Oregonians knew something about it. Chief Looks Like A Lady
Commissioner Leonard takes a fire ax to the glass ceiling in choosing a chief for a troubled fire bureau. Brown’s Labored Credibility
A legal opinion shows the Secretary of State mishandled the labor commissioner’s race. Bus Boy
Jefferson Smith built a political machine. Now he’s trying to drive it to City Hall.
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