News It’s budget season at City Hall, the time of year when we’re told what a dystopian Portland would look like. Streets without cops. Homes burning out of control. Empty swimming pools, vagrants More
Fiscal Bluff
The proposed budget cuts city bureaus are betting mayor Charlie Hales won’t make.
News It’s budget season at City Hall, the time of year when we’re told what a dystopian Portland would look like. Streets without cops. Homes burning out of control. Empty swimming pools, vagrants More
City Commissioners Seeking $1.7 Million in One-Time Money
News A $25 million hole in the city budget isn't stopping Portland City Commissioners from seeking one-time funding for projects outside city bureaus. WW first reported yesterday that th... More
$6.4 Million in One-Time Money is On the City Hall Chopping Block
News Mayor Charlie Hales is entering city budget season facing a much-publicized $25 million shortfall. But the hole could be bigger than that.
Last year's city budget included $13.7 million in one-time funding fo... More
Oregon Zoo Buys Elephants Lily and Tusko from Traveling Show
Price tag: $400,000
News The Oregon Zoo announced this morning it has purchased legal rights to baby elephant Lily and her father Tusko from the California-based traveling elephant show Have Trunk Will Travel.
The price tag for the two pachyderms? $400,000.
The deal for Lily and Tusko ends a three-month uproar that began More
Planning Bureau Recommends No More No-Parking Apartments Bigger Than 40 Units
News Last month, Portland City Council told the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to draft new zoning rules for the apartments without on-site parking that have sparked ire across the eastern quadrants of Portland.
Tod... More
Read Esquire's Rousing Defense of the Postal Service, Filed from Oregon
News Your email inbox was surely jammed yesterday with alarmed messages regarding the U.S. Postal Service's plan to stop delivering most mail on Saturdays. Esquire wasn't surprised: The magazine's February issue includes a More
Fluoride Foes Remove Parody Facebook Page
News Today's edition of WW's Murmurs opens with an item about how fluoridation opponents started a Facebook page with nearly the same name ("Healthy Portland, Healthy Kids") as More
Talking With the Enemy
In an unprecedented Oregon program, domestic-violence victims ask questions of abusers.
News Hope Vanderhoof for eight years put up with being hit in the head and kicked with steel-toed boots by her boyfriend. She finally ended the relationship in 2005, when he tried to kill her by settin More
Violence Against VAWA
Why Republicans allowed a federal law aiding survivors of sexual and domestic violence to expire.
News In the final days of the 112th U.S. Congress—days marked by frantic brinkmanship to avoid the fiscal cliff—Capitol Hill let the Violence Against Women Act fall with a thud. For the f More
Hotseat: Vanessa Timmons
She’s pressing Salem to open state pocketbooks for abused women.
Q & A Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence director Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money. More
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Carrie Brownstein is making fun of you. Quake-Up Call
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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?
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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