News The national We the People Constitution competition concluded Monday, and Grant High School placed seventh in the nation. As reported yesterday,  Grant students made it into the finals over the weekend, demonst...   More

News The juggernaut that is the Grant High Constitution Team learned today that they are in the top 10 of the National Constitution Finals. The squad of high-school students competed with the best in the country in the D.C. area over the weekend, facing varied questions about executive power; immigration reform; the role of media as watchdog; and what, if any, Constitutional protections Facebook users ...   More

News Money from the $548 million bond measure that is on the ballot for voters who live in the Portland School District would go toward rebuilding nine schools and upgrading all 76 others. 
How were the nine picked? 
It turns out it wasn't entirely based on which schools were in the worst shape or which schools served the largest number of students. Instead, the decision was informed ...   More

Ask the Editor Got a question about the future of journalism or how Willamette Week covered something, or didn’t cover it? Ask away. WW Editor Mark Zusman—that's his friendly mug in the picture—will respon   More

Ask the Editor Got a question about the future of journalism or how Willamette Week covered something, or didn’t cover it? Ask away. WW Editor Mark Zusman—that's his friendly mug in the picture—will respon   More

Ask the Editor Got a question about the future of journalism or how Willamette Week covered something, or didn’t cover it? Ask away. WW Editor Mark Zusman—that's his friendly mug in the picture—will respon   More

News Vanity Fair Magazine is out with an excerpt of Paul Allen's memoir and it promises to be a best-seller, perhaps less because of what it reveals about the author than what Allen has to say about Bill Gates. The book, with the rather blustery title Idea Man, isn't due out for another month, but the VF    More

Ask the Editor Got a question about the future of journalism or how Willamette Week covered something, or didn’t cover it? Ask away. WW Editor Mark Zusman—that's his friendly mug in the picture—will respon   More

News In news that's noteworthy but hardly surprising, Harry & David filed today for bankruptcy. 

The Medford-based seller of food and fruits—one of the larger employers in southern Oregon with 1,950 workers—says a number of its lenders have agreed to write off much of its debt, allowing it to continue operating with a bit of breathing room.
 
If so, that would be a welc...   More

News Was the pressure placed on Craigslist to shut its adult section last year based, in part, on crap science?   Journalist Nick Pinto, writing for the City Pages, published a piece this week that kneecaps the "study" used by the Women's Funding Network in its...   More