News At Beaverton-based global evangelist Luis Palau's suggestion, conservative Christian pastors at rapidly growing suburban mega-churches may join with liberal Portland Mayor Tom Potter and Commissioner ... More
Holy Alliance!
Conservative churches may make common cause with liberal Portland pols.
News At Beaverton-based global evangelist Luis Palau's suggestion, conservative Christian pastors at rapidly growing suburban mega-churches may join with liberal Portland Mayor Tom Potter and Commissioner ... More
All That Fusion Jazz
Backers of fusion voting race the legislative clock.
News A proposal aimed at unlocking a 100-year Democratic-Republican duopoly in Oregon politics hangs in the balance as the 2007 Legislature wraps up this month. Two minor parties—the Libertarian Par ... More
Paper or Plastic?
Sam Adams is becoming Portland's bag man.
News The ever-fertile mind of Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams has turned to solving one of life's vexing dilemmas: "Paper or plastic?" Two weeks after San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban ... More
Kerry On
From the 2004 presidential campaign to Portland's Bagdad Theater for John and Teresa.
News John Kerry couldn't have been much further from the White House on Monday night. The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate appeared at the Bagdad Theater with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, to pitch ... More
Other March Madness
What the antiwar movement has learned as it gears up for its big Portland rally Sunday.
News Organizers of Portland's antiwar movement think they're finally about to translate their street strength into political results almost four years after U.S. soldiers invaded Iraq. They expect a tur ... More
Chain Reaction
Wal-Mart isn't the only grocery giant eyeing Portland.
News A non-native species of grocery has sprung up in the Portland area.Save-A-Lot, an "extreme value" grocer that began about 30 years ago in suburban St. Louis, is a fast-growing chain of small stores wi ... More
Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr.
Q & A From his base in an outer Northeast Portland union hall, Tom Leedham is campaigning one more time to head the Teamsters, America's largest private-sector union.His opponent: incumbent Jimmy Hoffa Jr., ... More
Party On
The new Working Families Party promises to shake up Oregon's elections.
News Think the bumper crop of third-party candidates for Oregon governor is making this year's election interesting?Just wait 'til 2008, when a new union-backed third party, the Oregon Working Families Par ... More
Learning How To Get Along
Odd alliance of school-voucher advocates tries to gain ground in Portland.
News Politics makes strange bedfellows, and school politics is certainly no exception.Last week, Portland glimpsed the growing national alliance between free-market whites and traditionally liberal African ... More
Academy Makeover
The latest attempt to solve the Jefferson High School puzzle angers some parents, students and teachers.
News With only three weeks until finals wrap up this school year, confusion reigns again at Jefferson High School over what its latest new look will be come September.Portland Public Schools was planning t ... More
Top Articles from Don Mcintosh
Not A Pretty Picture
A big developer crosses brushes with with 68-year-old decorator. Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr. Driving is Lazy
It’s International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 3. So why ARE SO MANY portland PARENTS still driving? Sitting Ducks
Employee safety complaints mount against an ATM service company. Paper or Plastic?
Sam Adams is becoming Portland's bag man. Pillow Fight
Portland Hilton’s union workers push a boycott of their own hotel. Holy Alliance!
Conservative churches may make common cause with liberal Portland pols. Laboring To Birth A New Party
Oregon union leaders working to create a third political party. Take Me to the River
Bring your own Bible: Party in Portland this weekend with evangelicals. Party On
The new Working Families Party promises to shake up Oregon's elections.
A big developer crosses brushes with with 68-year-old decorator. Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr. Driving is Lazy
It’s International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 3. So why ARE SO MANY portland PARENTS still driving? Sitting Ducks
Employee safety complaints mount against an ATM service company. Paper or Plastic?
Sam Adams is becoming Portland's bag man. Pillow Fight
Portland Hilton’s union workers push a boycott of their own hotel. Holy Alliance!
Conservative churches may make common cause with liberal Portland pols. Laboring To Birth A New Party
Oregon union leaders working to create a third political party. Take Me to the River
Bring your own Bible: Party in Portland this weekend with evangelicals. Party On
The new Working Families Party promises to shake up Oregon's elections.
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