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You are simply amazing.
In November and December, 5,450 of you gave $1,967,423 to local nonprofits through Willamette Week’s
Give!Guide. That’s nearly 100 times the amount you donated through
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The greatest test facing WW
today comes not from the challenge of surviving in a digital world or
from the effects of a lingering recession—though neither can be
underestimated.
Our real tes
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Ron Abell died on Saturday.
Though never formally employed by Willamette Week, Ron could lay claim to being a member of the original gang. By the time WW published its first issue in November of 1974, he’d been involved in Oregon politics in just about every way imaginable—as newspaper and television reporter, as staffer in Salem, as campaign worker for Wayne Morse and Neil Goldschmid...
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Wow!
Between Nov. 9 and Dec. 31, more than 5,000 of you gave
nearly $1.6 million to 100 local nonprofits and two statewide
organizations through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide.
That’s a 27
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Willamette Week was founded 37 years ago this week,
and it’s been 28 years since editor Mark Zusman and I bought what’s
grown into a fully formed news media business. Because you are the most
i
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One of Oregon’s most redeeming qualities is this: One person can make a difference here. In the case of Betty Roberts, that difference is huge; and when the history is written of Oregon in th ...
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Wow! You made so many donations to our annual Give!Guide that we’re just now finishing the tallies and making final deliveries of incentives. Altogether, WW’ s 2007 Give!Guide produced m ...
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This week, Willamette Week turns 33. We graduated some time ago from the school of hard knocks, stuck with our first job and, after years of renting, settled down in a starter home in Northwest. We&r ...
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But for Dennis Lindsay, Willamette Week might not exist. In the early ’70s Lindsay became this newspaper’s first investor. His $6,000—and his introduction to Elizabeth Ducey—g ...
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To our readers:The name Sid Lezak may not mean much to those of you younger than 35.But for many of us who knew and loved Sid over the years, time stopped for a painful moment last Monday, when he die ...
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