News The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighb... More
City Chops Down Pier Park Sequoia, Arrests Woman Trying to Save It
News The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighb... More
State Appeals Board Yanks Permit for No-Parking Apartment Complex on Division Street
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News The State of Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has reversed the City of Portland building permit for an 81-unit apartment complex with no on-site parking on Southeast Division Street.
The appeals board's Feb. 20 ruling means Beaverton-based developer Dennis Sackhoff must h... More
Here's PBOT's Plan to Move $7.15 Million to Paving and Repairs, in One Handy Graphic
News When Mayor Charlie Hales appointed Toby Widmer as interim director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation last month, the job came with clear instructions: Find money to pave roads.So Widmer appeare... More
Hales on Alien Boy: "It's a Stunning Film"
News Barely 48 hours before the first police-involved shooting of Mayor Charlie Hales' term—the killing of an emergency room patient allegedly waving a gun outside Portland Adventist Medical Center on Feb. 17—the mayor sat through a cras... More
Alaska Would Like to Buy a Portland Loo, Please
News The city's Bureau of Environmental Services has sold a second Portland Loo—to Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Ketchikan Gateway Bureau has ordered one of the city's patented stainless steel, solar-powered, open-air public toilets. But Portland can't complete the sale unti... More
Video: TriMet GM Neil McFarlane Says CRC Backers Had Better Hurry
News Lawmakers in Washington and Oregon continue to escalate a standoff over whether the Project Formerly Known as the Columbia River Crossing should include light rail.
You'll never guess whose side TriMet Gene... More
Video: TriMet GM Neil McFarlane Says Fare-Hopping is a Crime
News When TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane stopped by WW's office last Thursday, we had to ask him about the stings.
Last year, as the regional transit agency ended its Free Rail Zone and increased fares, it also escalated its fare enforcement. TriMet began More
Video: Why Neil McFarlane Wants to Allow TriMet Bus Drivers to Strike
News TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane stopped by our office last Thursday for an interview before giving his "State of TriMet" report this morning. That report was more like a war council, with McFarlane offering his opening tactic in a contract battle with Tr... More
One Billion Rising Refuses to Get Police Permit for V-Day March
News Organizers of One Billion Rising, the worldwide protest to draw attention to issues of violence against women, are refusing to obtain a permit for their downtown march.
The march, More
Hotseat: Neil McFarlane
TriMet’s GM on the agency’s union costs, big penalties for fare dodgers, and why service cuts won’t be restored anytime soon.
News Neil McFarlane built his career on expanding TriMet. But he has become the face of cutbacks. TriMet’s general manager since 2010, McFarlane has been locked in a bitter struggle with the More
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The aggressive dork CEOs spearheading Portland’s startup scene. Children Of A Higher God
The members of the Santo Daime church fought for the right to drink hallucinogenic tea. And they’re serving it to kids. Mock Star
Carrie Brownstein is making fun of you. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Notes From the Occupation
48 hours inside Occupy Portland. Professor Xbox
Tom Bissell is Portland's finest writer. Why is he spending his time on video games and bad movies? Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket. Voodoo Child
Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park. Drink 2012: The Douchification of Northwest 21st Avenue
Thai Hard
Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer?
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