News Portland Police Officer Gina Hoesly has dated her share of high-profile guys, ranging from Assistant Chief Andrew Kirkland to former Portland Trail Blazer Jerome Kersey to Robbie Merrill, bass gui ... More
Cop 'n' an Attitude
News Portland Police Officer Gina Hoesly has dated her share of high-profile guys, ranging from Assistant Chief Andrew Kirkland to former Portland Trail Blazer Jerome Kersey to Robbie Merrill, bass gui ... More
BURNING QUESTIONS
Arson investigators think they know who torched the Burlingame Grocery. Only the owner of the Northwest's most celebrated beer store
knows whether they're right.
News It took Tom Calkins more than a decade to turn a former convenience store into one of Portland's most celebrated specialty markets and the Northwest's leading purveyor of beer. It took only one ni ... More
Chief Concerns
Who'll head the Police Bureau? One candidate has a questionable past.
News Following Police Chief Mark Kroeker's announcement that he was applying for a job in Los Angeles, Mayor Vera Katz said she would look in-house for Portland's next top cop.A quick review of the pot ... More
The Race for Top Cop
News Someday, perhaps sooner than we think, Portland Police Chief Mark Kroeker will load up his belongings in a U-Haul and head on home to La-La Land. He's applied to head the police department in Los ... More
"Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges.
News For the past decade, Loren Parks, the Daddy Warbucks of Oregon conservative causes who has spent heavily to shape this year's Republican gubernatorial primary, has successfully guarded his persona ... More
Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime.
News Last week, a county grand jury indicted Joshua Robert Brown, a 21-year-old white ex-con, on charges of killing Anthony Cleo Wilson, a 47-year-old African-American convicted felon, in a downtown ho ... More
The Young and the Shafted
A new study shows why candidates--the smart ones--are dissing young voters.
News On Monday, May 6, at 8 pm, what promises to be the least conventional and most youthful gubernatorial debate of the year--complete with beer--will take place inside the 600-seat Aladdin Theater.Bu ... More
Monroe's Money
News On Dec. 13, 2001, the elected council of Metro, Portland's regional planning agency, was debating where to direct new growth--deciding, in essence, which parcels of land would eventually sprout co ... More
Portland Cops Could Face Measure 11 charges
News A county grand jury is poised to determine whether two Portland police officers will face felony assault charges and the prospect of nearly six years behind bars for their role in an alleged beating d ... More
California Dreaming
News Last week the news was filled with images of police Chief Mark Kroeker, who supposedly could be Los Angeles' next chief of police.Don't bet on it.On paper, Kroeker looks like a logical choice for L. ... 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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