Letters to the Editor A MATTER OF OPINIONThe Nose [WW, Feb. 5, 2002] asserted that my speech to the Portland Roast Festival and The Oregonian's position on Arianna Huffington are analogous, and that I have crossed a ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) Bloated behemoths can abandon their New Year's resolutions, and puffing paramedics can leave their weight belts at home. American Medical Response, which provides ambulance services to M ...   More

Rogue of the Week We don't envy the folks at the Oregon Employment Department. Dealing with a quarter-million people who've lost their jobs has got to be depressing. And informing some of them that their unemployme ...   More

Letters to the Editor IF WE BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME To bring major-league baseball to Portland, proponents have made the case that a new stadium will be self-financed, using new taxes on player salaries to fund the p ...   More

News Game over. It's history. The fat lady has sung, and the voters of Oregon have rendered their verdict on Measure 28, the temporary tax hike that will raise $313 million this year. Unfortunately, th ...   More

News * Last week, City Commish Jim Francesconi shot down a City Council resolution opposing a pre-emptive strike on Iraq, saying he couldn't support a vote on "issues we can't control." That logic didn ...   More

Music Stories PROFILE Personal Best The Joggers leave the competition gasping.A lot of bands come 'round knocking on doors in this town, looking to off-load some merchandise scarcely distinguishable from that o ...   More

Letters to the Editor BOB CUT As a baseball fan, I would love to see a major-league team in Portland ["Field of Dreams...or Field of Schemes?," WW, Jan. 15, 2003]. As a taxpayer, I would like to see an equitable fundi ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) Phone customers furious about "cramming" and "slamming" may find relief in proposed legislation in Salem that would penalize phone companies for adding services or switching phone provid ...   More

Rogue of the Week Whenever we grow weary of the hurly-burly of the newsroom, there's nothing we like better than to load up on popcorn, slip a flask of bourbon into our briefcases and head over to the Portland Buil ...   More