News In January, The Washington Post declared that Portland had jumped the shark and that Pittsburgh was now the "hottest" city in America.
Not so fast. 
Here are two pieces of evidence that Portland hasn't lost its mojo. First, the news reported last week that Portland will be featu...   More

News Republican Rob Cornilles and Democrat Suzanne Bonamici are running against each other in the Jan. 31 special election to replace Congressman David Wu, who resigned last year. Both candidates were in our office this week.We thought this section of the interview, about the chase for money and what it does to elected officials, was especially interesting—and candid.
Check out Cornilles' and Bon...   More

News The worst kept secret in Oregon education circles is now fact: Dr. Robert Berdahl, 74, has been appointed to be the interim president of the University of Oregon by the state Board of Higher Ed, a group that Berdahl    More

News A number of sources say the top choice for the position of interim president of the University of Oregon is Robert Berdahl, an administrator at the University, who taught history in Eugene for two decades before leaving to take a variety of posts elsewhere, including the chancellor's job at the University of California at Berkeley, and the top job at the  Association of American Universities....   More

News For years, Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has been the primary sponsor of a bill that would impose a tax on certain stock transactions in excess of $100,000 a year as a way of balancing the budget and targeting speculators.  The current version of the bill, HR 3313, or "The Wall Stree...   More

News Over this sleepy Thanksgiving weekend, dissenting views continue to surface over the decision by Gov. John Kitzhaber and the State Board of Higher Education to oust Richard Lariviere as president of the University of Oregon. As WW reported earlier in the week, Lariviere was i...   More

News A question WW always asks Republican candidates for Congress is whether there are any tax loopholes they would like to close, or any taxes they would consider raising. It's a way of getting them to show how they think (or if they think) or if they are simply reflexive anti-government candidates.
Similarly, we always ask Democratic candidates for Congress what cuts they would consider making in ...   More

News No Portlander is more involved with the aftermath of 9/11 on a national—or global—scale, than Steven Wax. As the federal public defender for Oregon since 1983, leading the office that provides    More

Politics The timing was fitting: One week after the far right wing of the Republican Party held the economy hostage...   More

News  Mark Hatfield, former U.S. Senator, Governor, Secretary of State and the class act of Oregon politics for more than 40 years, died today after a long illness. He was 89 and had returned to Oregon after several months of hospitalization at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

The dean of moderate Republicans, Hatfield fused deep Baptist beliefs with a knack for reta...   More