News No question, it's bold: a hyper-modernistic aerial tram sweeping down Marquam Hill, vaulting over I-5, connecting the city's largest employer with its most ambitious urban development. Fittingly, cont ... More
The Lady and the Tram
Sarah Graham has designs on connecting Pill Hill with the city's south shoreline.
News No question, it's bold: a hyper-modernistic aerial tram sweeping down Marquam Hill, vaulting over I-5, connecting the city's largest employer with its most ambitious urban development. Fittingly, cont ... More
The Day the Air Turned Pink
Air America launches its "liberal radio" crusade in Portland--but not without problems.
News Less than 72 hours after Air America, the national, New York-based "progressive talk" radio network, debuted in Portland and five other cities last week, Lars Larson's manhood came up. A Portland call ... More
Questioning the Inquest
The public forum on the most recent fatal police shooting may not provide what the public, or officers, want.
News What if you held a public inquest into a controversial police shooting--and nobody came?That's the prospect faced by District Attorney Mike Schrunk, who will spearhead a public review of the actions o ... More
MISSISSIPPI (High) RISING
High-density development may mark the next chapter of a North Portland renaissance.
News The former home of Chappell Trucking doesn't look like much. Gray, dirty industrial buildings slumber next to Boise-Eliot Elementary, on Fremont just east of North Mississippi Avenue. If a local devel ... More
Clear Connection
A cafe's free Internet phone offers a glimpse of the future. Sorry, Qwest.
News A little after 8 am last Thursday, Tom Fitzgerald stood in the rain at Northeast 22nd Avenue and Oregon Street. I stood inside Urban Grind, the spacious cafe at this sleepy corner just off Sandy Boule ... More
Newark? Newark?
A look behind the biz-mag rankings that shellacked Portland.
News You could practically hear the decaf lattes snorted through upturned noses all over town. Inc. magazine released its list of best and worst cities for business last month, and Portland's elite was agh ... More
The Campaign Busse
A mayoral hopeful goes for the youth vote.
News Phil Busse walks out of the Fresh Pot on North Mississippi Avenue late one afternoon, and a young woman stops him. She doesn't want to talk about police accountability. Or biodiesel buses. Or any of t ... More
PSU's New Look
Hot-shot teachers, gobs of research money, a building spree and an angry union. What's going on?
News Jun Jiao works among ridges and buttes, alien obelisks and tangled deltas, all spooky neon-gray and ashen black. An icy distant planet? Guess again. Jiao, a buoyant nanophysicist born southeast of Bei ... More
The Earl of Trolleys
Rep. Blumenauer fights to move streetcars to the head of the federal gravy train.
News The Portland Streetcar has its detractors. Some are those incurably car-happy types who view all mass transit as a Bolshevik plot. Others think the 4.8-mile loop linking Northwest and Portland State i ... More
Last Stand with Sacajawea
News When workers broke ground on Portland's long-awaited official Holocaust Memorial early this month, the backhoes and hard hats seemed to signal an end to torturous legal battles over the Washington Par ... More
Top Articles from Zach Dundas
HOBBITS GONE WRONG
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
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