News You don't have to be a painter, sculptor or graphic designer to know that Portland is bursting with creative types. In the past few years, this city has attracted thousands of the young, the hip and t ... More
CREATIVE BIND
Artists want it. Developers want to build it. So why is cheap live/work space hard to find?
News You don't have to be a painter, sculptor or graphic designer to know that Portland is bursting with creative types. In the past few years, this city has attracted thousands of the young, the hip and t ... More
CUTTING CAMPAIGN CHECKS
How Portland's new campaign-money rules have worked elsewhere.
News Barring a last-minute petition frenzy in the next couple of weeks, Portland will become the first city in America to offer full public campaign funding to give taxpayer money to qualifying City Hall c ... More
In Deep S**t?
City Council may dive into $400 million Big Pipe sewer fight.
News Portland's City Council will decide this Thursday whether to plunge into the battle between two contractors over $400 million worth of sewer tunneling under the east side.The project is colossal. So a ... More
Hurtin' IRNE
Legal warfare besieges city phone system.
News Major telecom companies are trying to kick the City of Portland out of a business most citizens don't know it's in: telephone, Internet and wireless service.Federal lawsuits filed by TimeWarner and Va ... More
Glowing in the Wind
News The city of Portland is launching a power project more low-profile than a proposed purchase of Portland General Electric, but just as bold in its own way.Portland wants to become the first major city ... More
And Another Thing!
Mayor Potter asked city workers to sound off. They did. WW examines some bureau-kvetches.
News When Tom Potter became mayor this year, he vowed to make the city's bureaus more efficient, friendly and diverse. Step one: He solicited anonymous suggestions, observations and complaints from city em ... More
One Woman's Qwest
How Jennifer Palmquist brought down the Roaming Empire.
News One sunny spring day in 2001, Jennifer Palmquist stepped out of the downtown Borders and whipped out her cell phone.Palmquist, a lawyer, dialed her secretary on the 11th floor of a granite-and-glass o ... More
WEB EXTRA - Beam Files Bridgehead Appeal
Developer will fight controversial PDC vote.
News Brad Malsin, the losing developer in last week's Portland Development Commission vote on the quarter-billion-dollar Burnside Bridgehead project, filed an appeal of that decision Wednesday afternoon.Th ... More
Glasnost for Others
Auktyon-just maybe the greatest Russian band ever-tries to conquer America.
Music Stories Of all the things a person could do in 1983-get heavy into legwarmers, write a bestseller about coke-snorting stockbrokers, whatever-forming an avant-garde Russian rock band ranked very, very low on t ... More
Garden-Variety Schools
News In Oregon-a state both overweight and underfed-fat kids are a hot political topic, as Salem legislators weigh (yes, Pun Hell awaits) bills banning junk food and requiring Phys Ed. But in Portland, the ... 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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