News Julie Parrish knows she’s a political misfit. As she puts it, she’s an immigrant’s kid, a first-generation American from a Lebanese father. She’s an under-40 suburban mom with kids in pu More
Voices 2013: Julie Parrish
A brash Republican survivor talks about how her party needs to change.
News Julie Parrish knows she’s a political misfit. As she puts it, she’s an immigrant’s kid, a first-generation American from a Lebanese father. She’s an under-40 suburban mom with kids in pu More
Timbers Army Members Invest to Save Spanish Soccer Team
News Portland's most intense soccer fans are seeing their impact go international. The New York Times reports that Timbers Army members have gotten behind an effort to save a once-storied Spanish team, Real Oviedo, that has fallen ... More
Backers and Hackers: U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader Holds a $5,000-Per-Person Golf Fundraiser After Easy Win
News U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore) didn't waste any time trying to squeeze more money of lobbyists and special interest grous following his easy re-election win Nov. 6. According to the Huffington Post, Schrader, who represents Oregon's 5th District, held... More
Pollution In Paradise
The moment Oregon began to go green.
Movie Reviews & Stories Oregon was born 50 years ago this week. Not the museum diorama of covered wagons and white missionaries, but the Oregon of modernity, a place that became a global model for protecting the enviro More
One Question: Do You Support the “Arts Tax” to Fund Schools and Cultural Organizations?
Elections Portland voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to impose an annual $35-per-adult tax on city residents (with exemptions for those living in poverty) to help fund more arts teachers in Portland Publi More
Pulp Nonfiction
Writer Phil Stanford turns to Dark Horse Comics to get at the truth of Portland’s secrets.
News Phil Stanford made his name in Portland by needling the pompous and powerful with his columns for The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune. But... More
Richard Ford, Canada
One boy, two lives, and an uneven landscape.
Books Dell Parsons, the narrator of Richard Ford’s conflicted new novel, Canada (Ecco, 432 pages, $27.99), tells us right off about the story’s major event. His parents became unlikely bank robbers. More
Michael Orr, The 1975 Portland Timbers
Ouch, my groin.
Books It seems like no one played soccer in Portland before 1975. The next year, kids crowded parks and fields to try this undiscovered sport. My middle school was unprepared for the onslaught. “We More
Whiffs of Trouble
A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks.
News The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal investigation into a large leak of ammonia from a Columbia County fertilizer plant in 2010 that went undetected for five days. Re More
Police Chief Mike Reese Apologizes for Issuing False Info About Occupy Portland's Impact on a Rape Case
News Police Chief Mike Reese, who's getting close to a bid for mayor, apologized this weekend for claiming that his officers are so busy dealing with Occupy Portland protesters that they had to leave a rape victim sitting unassisted for three hours. More
Top Articles from BRENT WALTH
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The Oregon Courts have so far spent $23 million on a new computer system with little to show for it. An Unreliable Housing Audit
A city-funded housing audit misrepresented evidence, making discrimination in Portland look worse than it really is. Not So Black & White
Why is the Fair Housing Council keeping details of its recent discrimination study secret? Homeless, Not Faceless
Occupy Portland forced the city to face its persistent problems with homelessness. Hotseat: Edward Glaeser
A Harvard economist says what we think about urban life may be wrong. Whiffs of Trouble
A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks. All Aboard!
The CRC’s backers want to use an obscure law for light rail to win approval for the freeway. Not Yet Over And Out
The state’s emergency radio project is dead, but its costs keep going up. Voices 2013: Julie Parrish
A brash Republican survivor talks about how her party needs to change. Richard Ford, Canada
One boy, two lives, and an uneven landscape.
The Oregon Courts have so far spent $23 million on a new computer system with little to show for it. An Unreliable Housing Audit
A city-funded housing audit misrepresented evidence, making discrimination in Portland look worse than it really is. Not So Black & White
Why is the Fair Housing Council keeping details of its recent discrimination study secret? Homeless, Not Faceless
Occupy Portland forced the city to face its persistent problems with homelessness. Hotseat: Edward Glaeser
A Harvard economist says what we think about urban life may be wrong. Whiffs of Trouble
A fertilizer plant comes under criminal investigation after repeated ammonia leaks. All Aboard!
The CRC’s backers want to use an obscure law for light rail to win approval for the freeway. Not Yet Over And Out
The state’s emergency radio project is dead, but its costs keep going up. Voices 2013: Julie Parrish
A brash Republican survivor talks about how her party needs to change. Richard Ford, Canada
One boy, two lives, and an uneven landscape.
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