News Two weeks after The Oregonian's Sunday edition ran a front-page profile of math whiz Mark Provo, the paper corrected five factual errors.But Provo says those fixes don't address what he calls other er ... More
Fact Check
News Two weeks after The Oregonian's Sunday edition ran a front-page profile of math whiz Mark Provo, the paper corrected five factual errors.But Provo says those fixes don't address what he calls other er ... More
Starving Art
Everclear's Art Alexakis is trying to lower his payments to his ex-wives.
News Claiming his finances are in dire straits, Everclear frontman Art Alexakis wants to reduce support payments he makes to his two ex-wives.Alexakis—once Portland's most celebrated and reviled post ... More
Jailhouse Crock
Bruce Samuelson may have been a thief, a forger, an abusive husband and a snitch. But did he wrongly send a California man to his death?
News Convicted killer Michael Morales sits in a 5-by-8-foot cell in California's San Quentin prison waiting to die.Six hundred and thirty-five miles north, in Vancouver, Wash., lives a man who some believe ... More
Lying For Linn?
A former senior adviser to the county chair says Diane Linn told her to falsify public records and run personal errands on county time. A former Linn chief of staff confirms the account.
News With ballots hitting the mailbox this weekend, Laura Bridges has decided to go public with charges that she falsified public records at the direction of her former boss, Multnomah County Chair Diane L ... More
Linn Fallout
Multnomah County DA wants state to investigate charges made in WW story by ex-aide to Diane Linn.
News Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk asked the state on Thursday to open an investigation into allegations against County Chair Diane Linn by a former Linn aide who said the chair directed ... More
In Bed With Big Wood
Emails show OSU and timber sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
News Recently released emails show just how actively Oregon State University's forestry dean helped Big Timber do "damage control" over a grad student's research that found logging after fires hurts forest ... More
Whistle While You Shirk?
Some Multnomah County commissioners might be happier working in France, according to a WW records analysis.
News Three of Multnomah County's five commissioners appear to be working closer to a four-day work week than five, according to WW's analysis of appointment calendars and parking records that gave commissi ... More
Lesbians And Gays Going Courting
A Portland couple's fight for same-sex parental rights is the opening salvo in a statewide legal campaign.
News Two-year-old Emmett is a blond streak tearing through his North Portland living room. He drives toward a plastic basketball hoop before being denied by the quick reflexes of the mother he calls Meema, ... More
One Soldier's Story
As the conflict in Iraq enters its fourth year, wounded Oregon vet Sean Davis opens up his war journal and thoughts.
News On the third anniversary of the war in Iraq, about 10,000 people marched though Portland bearing the slogans and standards of protest.At the same time, 200 miles away, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Oregon's ... More
Cheap Eats 2006
Food Reviews & Stories Industrial chic meets sandwich style. Whether you're looking for a steel-and-wood fix or just to fill your belly, Industrial Cafe serves up American faves under $10. Lunch standards include a patty melt on dark rye slathered with flavorful grilled onions ($8) or five-cheese mac swimming in melted go More
Top Articles from Ian Demsky
Quickie Crack Pipes
Some Portland convenience stores are all too willing to sell everything you need to smoke crack—and it's perfectly legal. Why Did James Chasse Jr. Die?
Two Crimes, Two Punishments
Who should get more prison time: an accomplice in a robbery or a drunken driver in a fatal crash? Suicide Defense
How a punk-porn empire is trying to protect its piece of the pie. The Conned Artist?
Airbrush artist sues famous sculptor's son for millions. "My Name Is Randy, And I'm Addicted To Oil."
It's the end of the world as he knows it and Randy White feels fine (sort of). Hydro Hogs
Our annual list of the biggest hosers in Portland. Buff Daddy Redux
Is Columbia Gorge inn owner Geoff "Buff Daddy" Thompson playing by the rules? Red Light District
Portland seeks to double its cameras at traffic lights, but the company holding the city's no-bid contract has some legal troubles of its own. Starving Art
Everclear's Art Alexakis is trying to lower his payments to his ex-wives.
Some Portland convenience stores are all too willing to sell everything you need to smoke crack—and it's perfectly legal. Why Did James Chasse Jr. Die?
Two Crimes, Two Punishments
Who should get more prison time: an accomplice in a robbery or a drunken driver in a fatal crash? Suicide Defense
How a punk-porn empire is trying to protect its piece of the pie. The Conned Artist?
Airbrush artist sues famous sculptor's son for millions. "My Name Is Randy, And I'm Addicted To Oil."
It's the end of the world as he knows it and Randy White feels fine (sort of). Hydro Hogs
Our annual list of the biggest hosers in Portland. Buff Daddy Redux
Is Columbia Gorge inn owner Geoff "Buff Daddy" Thompson playing by the rules? Red Light District
Portland seeks to double its cameras at traffic lights, but the company holding the city's no-bid contract has some legal troubles of its own. Starving Art
Everclear's Art Alexakis is trying to lower his payments to his ex-wives.
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