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City officials including Mayor Sam Adams have softened their stance against Walmart recently as the shopping giant hires local software talent for its downtown Portland mobile-apps headquarters, More
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A mother and daughter from Redmond, Oregon serving as Republican National Convention delegatestold a radio reporter yesterday that Missouri Rep. Todd Akin was right that women getting pregnant from rape is "so c...More
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A story in this week's WW shows Portland officials—including Mayor Sam Adams and both mayoral candidates—scaling back the city's anti-Walmart stance as the shopping giant's mobile-software division, WalmartLabs, moves into a do...More
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Fernando Meirelles’ leap into the world-cinema scene, 2002’s City of God,
had more velocity than substance, but at least it was going someplace.
Since then, the Brazilian director’s conscien
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Sam Adams tried to keep Walmart from expanding here. He failed.
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The company moving into an 8,500-square-foot office above
Rock Bottom Brewing in downtown Portland on Sept. 7 is the sort of
tech-sector success...
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Low-income Portlanders seeking free TriMet tickets and passes should soon know where to look: More than 40 nonprofits have applied for a transit-agency program giving them fares at a 20 percent discount.
NewsThe Oregonian's owner keeps lopping off publication days back east.
Advance Publications, the New Jersey-based media company that owns The Oregonian, has announced it's reducing print editions at two of its daily newspapers: the More
Movies & Television
One of Portland's last remaining locally-owned movie rental stores, Video Vérité on North Mississippi Avenue, will close in October.Owner Marc Mohan, who is also a freelance film critic for The Oregonian, announced the incipient shuttering today More
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Horrorcore rappers Insane Clown Posse announced last week that they're looking into why the Federal Bureau of Investigation has categorized their fans, the Juggalos, as a gang.The band's front ...
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