Food Reviews & Stories While this Hawthorne eatery isn't dirt-cheap, there are still tasty bargains to be found here, ranging from the lunchtime Blue Plate special (a half-sandwich with salad and soup, $8) to quesadillas (black bean and cheddar $6, chicken verde $7) and caprese pizza ($10). The yuppified, sterile decorati More
Cheap Eats 2005
Food Reviews & Stories While this Hawthorne eatery isn't dirt-cheap, there are still tasty bargains to be found here, ranging from the lunchtime Blue Plate special (a half-sandwich with salad and soup, $8) to quesadillas (black bean and cheddar $6, chicken verde $7) and caprese pizza ($10). The yuppified, sterile decorati More
Cheap Eats 2005
Food Reviews & Stories Whether you're a health nut or a freak for french fries, Dots is ready to serve, with offerings ranging from humongous home-cut servings (jalape�o-cheddar fries $4.50) to burgers and vegan offerings to compromised veggie-head heaven in the garden border melt ($6.50). A hipster hangout since 1992 t More
Bad Blood
How a lawyer once suspected of sexual abuse gets taxpayer money.
News Two years ago, when one of the state's top death-penalty lawyers left Oregon for Las Vegas, people thought he'd never come back. Criminal-defense lawyer Griff Healy was under investigation by the Oreg ... More
Tainted Goods
Did Uncle Sam boost Portland's stolen-goods trade?
News The Portland Police Bureau has faced a monthlong local media siege for allowing a "brazen black market" in which thieves traveled to 10 states to steal goods, then returned here to sell them to second ... More
Gunning For Grubbs
Untimely lawsuit spells bad news for assistant chief and Police Bureau.
News A long legal battle in which a top male cop allegedly called a female detective "that fucking bitch" and said her "career is over" is about to hit the Portland Police Bureau—at precisely the wro ... More
Leif's Auto Body Experience
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business.
News From the posters of surfers and racing yachts hanging on his office walls to the two gleaming white stretch limousines outside to his neatly coiffed hair and power suit, it's hard not to conclude that ... More
News At 11...
Salem cops say KATU reporter may become part of Wirth investigation.
News If you thought the saga of state Rep. Kelley Wirth couldn't get any more bizarre, you're wrong.In September, a Capitol janitor's girlfriend allegedly ran down the 40-year-old Democratic lawmaker from ... More
One Fine Mess
Portland schools face a financial hole, ticked-off teachers and an end to the local income tax. Now what?
News When Ann Nice says, "I don't think it's going to be a pretty spring," the Portland Association of Teachers president isn't referring to the weather.At Portland Public Schools, budget and morale issues ... More
Oregon's Supreme Questions
Assisted-suicide, abortion defenders concerned by latest Supreme Court nomination.
News Defenders of Oregon's assisted-suicide law are worried about the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming decision on the law, because court nominee Harriet Miers could have a vote on it.In recent years, the cou ... More
The 10-year Solution
Backers of a local tax for schools want a 10-year income levy.
News When school officials from Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties meet this Friday, they'll be seeking an agreement to ask voters for approval of a 10-year income tax that spans three counties.T ... More
Top Articles from Nick Budnick
Leif's Auto Body Experience
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
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