News An army of canvassers hit the streets in April and May to rescue state Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) from defeat. Many of the workers knocking on doors for Schaufler in the May 15 primary w   More

News Politicians are now in the fallow period between the recently-completed May primary and Labor Day—the end-of-summer holiday that will mark the beginning of the dash toward the Nov. 6 general election.But Nike Chairman Phil Knight's $25,000 contribution over the weekend to co-House Speaker Bruce Hanna gives the Roseburg Republican a helpful boost.
Hanna, who owns a safe seat, is focused on tr...   More

News Gov. John Kitzhaber has snagged a big name to carry out his education reforms.
WW has learned Kitzhaber plans to announce that Rudy Crew is his choice for the new position of "chief education officer." The reforms Kitzhaber pushed through the 2011 Legislature included creating the position while eliminating the elected office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction.The job, according to ...   More

News In another sign of the difficult financial realities for print newspapers, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a sister paper of The Oregonian, will publish a hard-copy edition only three days a week starting this fall, the paper announced. The paper will publish Wednesday, Friday and Sun...   More

News Fresh off his May 15 primary victory, mayoral candidate Charlie Hales fired most of his staff last week. As a gesture of...   More

News Becky Corkill got laid off May 15.  Corkill, 53, works for the Oregon Education Association, the state’s biggest teachers union. She drove from her Klamath Falls home to the OEA’s Portl   More

News We're not going to record every donation to the new political action committee called Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence, but it's not often that such a concentration of powerful people piles into the same PAC at the same time.Yesterday, Nike Chairman Phil Knight joi...   More

News The beloved children's author Beverly Cleary contributed $10,000 to the Libraries Yes! Committee over the weekend. That group helped renew the levy that mostly funds the Multnomah County Library in last Tuesday's primary election. Voters approved the measure, which continues—but does not increase—the existing property tax levy.
Cleary's contribution will certainly help the group's future p...   More

News Expect to see a new crew around mayoral candidate Charlie Hales as he moves toward a November face-off with State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) in the general election. 
Today Hales asked for and received the resignations of half a dozen paid staff, letting go everyone with the exception of his consultant, Liz Kaufman.
Hales finished first in Tuesday's primary, narrowly outpointing ...   More

News If insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result, the people behind a proposal to develop a private casino in Wood Village might seem a little crazy.  After all,    More