News Vision. Schmizion."I don't mean this to be trite," says Michelle Winningham, a marketing consultant and neighborhood activist who lives in outer Southeast Portland. "We should stop spending so much ti ... More
Re-Visioning - The City That Wonks
Tired of waiting on the mayor's "visioning" process? Read about WW's efforts to learn what would make Portland a better place.
News Vision. Schmizion."I don't mean this to be trite," says Michelle Winningham, a marketing consultant and neighborhood activist who lives in outer Southeast Portland. "We should stop spending so much ti ... More
Cleaning Up With The PBA
Does the city's most powerful business group have the inside track on Portland's public potties and parks?
News The Portland Business Alliance has long provided security patrols at downtown parks and the cleaning of several public-park restrooms.In many ways, those services it performs for the city dovetail wit ... More
Myspace Invaders
Multnomah County steps up efforts to catch sex offenders who are using MySpace.com to find new victims.
News In the exploding cyberworld of MySpace.com, Jason is a moderately popular dude. He's got more than a hundred online "friends," mostly young and shirtless men.Jason advertises himself on the networking ... More
Sweetheart Deal?
County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey is accused of using her position to help her husband's company.
News Multnomah County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey faces a complaint before the state ethics commission that alleges she "is taking advantage of her position" to help her husband's development compan ... More
Deconstructing For Fema Dollars
New Orleans gets a lesson from Portland on greening its Katrina cleaning.
News Most Portlanders consider it a mortal sin to throw away so much as a soft-drink can, and to ask for paper and plastic requires millennia of karmic recompense.But why confine such a "green" gospel to P ... More
Citizen Clara
How one powerful Hispanic businesswoman is getting ahead in Multnomah County, and why taxpayers should be concerned.
News In 1987, after serving as New Mexico's secretary of state, Clara Padilla Andrews moved to Portland when her husband, a lawyer, took a job."I thought we would be here two, maybe three years," the petit ... More
Al Gore In An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Reviews & Stories Don't call it a comeback—former Vice President Al Gore has been honing his presentation on global warming for years. Now, director Davis Guggenheim has brought Gore's well-researched, sometimes ... More
The Sisterhood Of The Unraveling Loan
A county commissioner helped her friend borrow big from taxpayers. It's not going so well.
News From time to time, Multnomah County lends money to struggling nonprofits. It has floated cash to the Oregon Food Bank, for example, and to Port City Development Center, an outfit that teaches job skil ... More
Fuel Sell
One Portland oil company's big drop in to biodiesel sales.
News When you think of a vehicle using biodiesel, the stereotype might come with a "Keep Portland Weird" bumper sticker.But Carson Oil aims to expand that vision to include mudflaps with lissome silhouette ... More
The Riddle At 1320 SW Broadway
News It's been three weeks since The Oregonian ran a story about math whiz Mark Provo, who went on a subsequent rampage against the paper starting with a 17-page rebuttal to the May 7 article written by re ... 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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