Featured Stories In the past decade, Jim Parsons moved to Portland from Southern Oregon, lost his job as a travel agent and went back to school at PSU to study linguistics, where he’s currently a part-time student   More

News When Eva Golinger—the American lawyer, journalist and vocal supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez—got up to speak at First Unitarian Church on Friday, May 6, I wondered what I was in for. Fliers for the event, sponsored by the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), summed up the activist's West Coast tour as “Eva Golinger on WikiLeaks and the Empire’s Web.” And a...   More

News Five Portland State University students held a protest this week in President Wim Wiewel's office to demand more support for the university's Latino students and hold Wiewel accountable for his own promises.
Last October, Wiewel introduced a new initiative called    More

News After months of negotiations, some residents around Central Catholic High School in the Buckman neighborhood are still unhappy about the school's plan to expand its campus. The threat of increased traffic and a perceived lack o...   More

News On Saturday night, family and friends of Jene...   More

News Last July, Mike Rosen led a 22-member expedition from Portland to document the aftermath of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, on the anniversary of the April 20, 2010, spill, the group i   More

News Today's story in WW about a transgender woman who alleges she got fired after asking to dress as a woman on the job is not unusual, says Mike Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.
"Forty-sev...   More

News When Tea Gillis started work last August as a senior designer at Northwest Natural Products in Vancouver, Gillis went by Todd Gillis and wore slacks and men’s shirts. But Gillis, who has two chi   More

News Several dozen people identifying themselves as members of the Timbers Army engaged in a mass bout of "cyber-bullying" against three fellow fans earlier this week. Officials with the Portland Timbers, who are days away from the franchise's Major League Soccer home opener April 14 after starting...   More

News At a town hall meeting Saturday, city Commissioner Amanda Fritz introduced Friends of Last Thursday, an organization 15 months in the making that will assume the task of overseeing the monthly street festival on Northeast Alberta Street.
Reaction was mixed as Fritz unveiled the steering committee-a long-awaited answer to Last T...   More