News Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Congressman Paul Ryan campaigns in Portland today at a downtown fundraising luncheon. The fundraiser will be held at the Governor Hotel, at 614 SW 11th Ave.

This will be a private event, with tickets starting at $1,000 say campaign officials.

We sent intern Olga Kozinskiy down to report. Stay tuned for live updates:
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News President Barack Obama is visiting Portland for a fundraising dinner today. What will he wear? Who will attend? How bad will traffic be? So many important questions. We'll have news interns Fiona Noonan and Sam Stites live on the ground to bring you answers. And we'll be watching the wires (Twitter) for the latest.

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News When the top three mayoral candidates came for their endorsement interview at WW, we asked them what candidate in the race they would vote for — if they couldn't vote for themselves. Charlie Hales and Eileen Brady gave us direct and surprising answers. Jefferson Smith.... well, you'll have to watch for yourself and see if you can figure out what his answer is.

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News Without question, memories of 9/11 really belong to the survivors and witnesses of the attack, who are a relatively small group of people. What the other 290 million Americans who were not residents of New York City or Washington D.C. have are, by and large, memories of news reports. The WW staff is fairly typical in that way. We gathered our individual recollections. Some of us are old enough to ...   More

Rogue of the Week Over the past 16 months, legitimate concerns about national security have all too often masked insulting assumptions about the motives of foreign citizens. The most recent example was evident last wee ...   More