News Portlanders have voted down fluoridation three times, but now the state Legislature may force it down our throats-literally.A bill that would pressure Portland and most of Oregon to put fluoride in dr ... More
Something in the Water
Environmentalists, others oppose statewide fluoride bill.
News Portlanders have voted down fluoridation three times, but now the state Legislature may force it down our throats-literally.A bill that would pressure Portland and most of Oregon to put fluoride in dr ... More
School Knife Fight
Activists fume over cuts to minority-school funding.
News Sitting with a handful of parents and Portland School Board members in a small room last Friday, Superintendent Vicki Phillips spelled out dramatic budget cuts that will fall most heavily on the city' ... More
Charles McGee
Teenager says he's ready for the Portland School Board.
Q & A With Portland public-school politics roiling over school closures, school-board candidates have until Thursday to file for the May 17 election. Perhaps the most intriguing entry so far is 19-year-old ... More
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt.
News Several years ago in Northeast Portland, Officer Todd Wyatt responded to a report of squatters at a vacant apartment. He arrived and found himself grappling with a man he recalls being a "mountain."An ... More
Gay Marriage for Dummies
News The gay-marriage issue is not going away. On Monday a dozen queer couples, including WW columnist Byron Beck and his partner, filed a lawsuit arguing that Measure 36 should be tossed out. It gets conf ... More
Hey, Hey! Yawn, Yawn!
Where's the radical fringe gone?
News In a city where tension between cops and protesters climbs up and down like a biorhythm, last Thursday's Bush inauguration was like a hit of Valium.Sure, police arrested 15 adults and two kids in an e ... More
Sid Vicious
Judge Sid Galton, the biggest bully on Portland's bench, is now on the other side of the gavel.
News Walk into Judge Sid Galton's fourth-floor downtown courtroom and you see the usual: benches, tables, watercolors hanging on wood-paneled walls. Then you notice a blue lava lamp that swirls on his podi ... More
Blue Battle Brewing
Police union picks fight over post-shooting time off.
News If you're a Portland cop involved in a fatal shooting and want a few extra days off to clear your head, you can now expect your boss to say, "Not on our dime."Killing someone is a traumatic event, eve ... More
Goldschmidt's Grip
News Ever since May, when Neil Goldschmidt was forced to admit having sexually abused a 14-year-old girl during his term as Portland mayor, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and his aides have been downplaying their tie ... More
On the Taser Trail
Portland cops are getting more of the shock-inducing weapons as national concerns grow.
News At a time when other law-enforcement agencies, including the federal Department of Justice, are having second thoughts about tasers, the Portland Police Bureau plans to distribute 300 of the latest-mo ... 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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