News It's a chilly Wednesday afternoon, and I'm standing on a traffic median near the intersection of Northeast Sandy Boulevard and Burnside Street, sporting filthy jeans, work boots, a sweatshirt, a yello ... More
Panhandlers, Inc.
Inside Portland's million-dollar begging business.
News It's a chilly Wednesday afternoon, and I'm standing on a traffic median near the intersection of Northeast Sandy Boulevard and Burnside Street, sporting filthy jeans, work boots, a sweatshirt, a yello ... More
Skategoat?
Ex-Portland skater charged with murdering his son.
News From the pages of Thrasher to the unforgiving concrete below the Burnside Bridge, Neil Heddings is revered as one of Portland's original skaters. He was part of the guerrilla crew that built the Burns ... More
Hitler, Unplugged
A computer glitch derails Nazi/activist confrontation.
News About 300 Portlanders braved lashing rain and pelting hail Saturday to protest the presence of Adolf Hitler's ideological armies in Southwest Portland's Gabriel Park. The Nazis, however, never showed ... More
Dreaming of a White New Year
"Ghost skins" plan to descend on Southwest Portland in the next month.
News On the surface, Jim Ramm seems like a typical blue-collar Portlander. The 40-year-old industrial manufacturer believes in his First Amendment rights, has some problems with President Bush and question ... More
If the Shoe Fits
An ex-Nike designer has plans for a better sneaker.
News Something's afoot in Aloha. Literally. Following in the footsteps of Nike founder Bill Bowerman, a 49-year-old inventor is taking the Oregon tradition of homebrewed sneaker science one big step furthe ... More
Tonya: Boxing on Ice
News Looks like next year's grudge match between Tonya Harding and the U.S. Figure Skating Association won't happen after all.Last week, WW reported that Harding's boxing manager and trainer, Paul Brown, w ... More
TONYA'S MOB
Special Section Say Tonya Harding and see what happens. Everyone has an opinion about America's favorite scapegoat. Over the past 12 years, she's been pigeonholed as a figure skater, actor, singer, racecar driver, bo ... More
THE METEOR
Billy Ray Bates, Trail Blazer guard
Special Section Once, Billy Ray Bates held the world in his hands as surely as he held a basketball.After signing a 10-day contract with the Trail Blazers in 1980, the high-flying 6-foot-4, 210-pound guard slam-dunke ... More
THE BROKEN HALO
Homeless advocate Michael Stoops
Special Section Thanks in part to the trickle-down policies of the Reagan era, homelessness blighted the mid-'80s socioeconomic landscape. In Portland, destitute men, women and children took shelter where they could: ... More
FIRED UP OVER NOTHING
Gunslingers and cops say Kerry's shooting blanks on assault weapons.
News Last Thursday, Jarrad Stanton climbed out of a mud-spattered Nissan Pathfinder at an old rock quarry in the Tillamook State Forest. The 27-year-old Portland contractor strolled to the quarry's edge an ... More
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TONYA'S MOB
THE METEOR
Billy Ray Bates, Trail Blazer guard Panhandlers, Inc.
Inside Portland's million-dollar begging business. THE BROKEN HALO
Homeless advocate Michael Stoops HYDRO HOGS IV
Portland still has water wasters, but check out our suburban hosers. Skategoat?
Ex-Portland skater charged with murdering his son. Dreaming of a White New Year
"Ghost skins" plan to descend on Southwest Portland in the next month. If the Shoe Fits
An ex-Nike designer has plans for a better sneaker. Mount Scott Middle School
Multnomah County Animal Services
THE METEOR
Billy Ray Bates, Trail Blazer guard Panhandlers, Inc.
Inside Portland's million-dollar begging business. THE BROKEN HALO
Homeless advocate Michael Stoops HYDRO HOGS IV
Portland still has water wasters, but check out our suburban hosers. Skategoat?
Ex-Portland skater charged with murdering his son. Dreaming of a White New Year
"Ghost skins" plan to descend on Southwest Portland in the next month. If the Shoe Fits
An ex-Nike designer has plans for a better sneaker. Mount Scott Middle School
Multnomah County Animal Services
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