News While Portland Public Schools loudly debates closing some schools and reconfiguring others, teachers and parents are worried about a much quieter but significant long-term development for local educat ... More
Schools' "broad" Agenda
L.A. foundation's role in Portland schools alarms teachers, some parents.
News While Portland Public Schools loudly debates closing some schools and reconfiguring others, teachers and parents are worried about a much quieter but significant long-term development for local educat ... More
Save Our School
Portland school district budget problems leave parents at one elementary school fighting over the crumbs.
News Hell hath no fury like parents who think Portland Public Schools will close their child's school.Recent emails to superintendent Vicki Phillips from parents at Northeast Portland's Hollyrood Elementar ... More
Dialing For Dollars
A proposed cell-phone tax is reborn as City Hall scrambles to fill the financial hole for Portland Public Schools.
News With Portland's leaders seemingly astonished that legislators left them to solve another school-funding crisis, the idea of a local tax on cell phones to raise money is resurfacing at City Hall.At a h ... More
Revving The Engine
The Bus Project wants to incubate the next power elite.
News Like an ailing operating system, American democracy has crashed, according to the young progressives who make up the Oregon Bus Project.And rebooting that democracy this election year in Oregon was th ... More
Laboring To Birth A New Party
Oregon union leaders working to create a third political party.
News Some of Oregon's biggest union heavyweights are working to create a third party that would make state Democrats less certain of labor support.In December, labor biggies like former state AFL-CIO presi ... More
The Accidental Anti-Semite
Internet holy war erupts over PSU student's column.
News Caelan MacTavish swears he never imagined his name would go for a ride that's still rolling on the Internet, getting blasted by Jews and praised by anti-Semites.MacTavish, a 28-year-old undergrad in h ... More
Not A Pretty Picture
A big developer crosses brushes with with 68-year-old decorator.
News Sharon Friedle wishes she'd never heard of Roger Pollock.Pollock, a big-time real-estate developer and sometime Republican fundraiser, hired the 68-year-old Friedle in June to do specialized painting ... More
Labor Unrest 101
PSU profs are grumbling about pay well beneath their counterparts'.
News When the Oregon Board of Higher Education holds its monthly meeting at Portland State University this Friday, expect a previously quiet insurgency among PSU professors to blow sky-high.What has about ... More
WATT'S UP WITH CONDEMNATION
Why the City of Portland isn't rushing to condemn PGE.
News Don't expect the City of Portland to make the ultimate power play and use its ability to acquire Portland General Electric forcibly from Enron.Since Enron called Portland's underlying condemnation blu ... 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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