News On Oct. 27, Sam Adams announced the most important decision he has made so far as Portland’s mayor-elect. He announced that Commissioner Dan Saltzman would oversee the Police Bureau when Adams b ... More
Relative Risk
The real reason Randy Leonard didn’t get the Police Bureau.
News On Oct. 27, Sam Adams announced the most important decision he has made so far as Portland’s mayor-elect. He announced that Commissioner Dan Saltzman would oversee the Police Bureau when Adams b ... More
Oregon 2009 Preview? Gambling Interests Delay Atlantic City Smoking Ban
News
A few weeks back, we had a cover story about how Oregon's looming smoking ban is likely to pinch state Lottery profits, which pay for everything from schools to salmon habitats.
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Randy-Rosie Feud Continues With Leak Allegations
News After announcing on Oct. 22 that he would not accept the police commissioner job next year, Portland Commissioner Randy Leonard told anyone who would listen that he hoped his decision would end a nasty media “circus” fed by leaks from the police.
“I'm a ... More
Our Spin On 7 Days of News
News $900 MILLION: Increase in annual earnings Daimler Trucks (formerly Freightliner) expects to generate three years from now, after it closes its Portland plant and cuts 3,500 jobs across the country. S ... More
Schmoozing And Shredding
Oregon’s most bizarre campaign spending.
News Portland’s two publicly financed City Council candidates, Amanda Fritz and Charles Lewis, have proven a huge disappointment for scandal-hungry critics of the controversial program. Sticklers for ... More
Restaurant Guide 2008
Food Reviews & Stories If a miraculously resurrected F. Scott Fitzgerald decided to have a night on the town in Portland, he’d probably lead his glamorous, drunken entourage toward Carlyle for dinner. Bruce Goldberg’s Slabtown destination diner is fancy but fun, friendly and casual, and refreshingly detached f More
Restaurant Guide 2008
Food Reviews & Stories An overwhelming consensus—i.e., The Oregonian (2005 Restaurant of the Year), Robb Report and WW’s own readers (who voted it 2008’s Best Place to Take a Date in the Pearl District)—favors this slick Peruvian restaurant, and for good reason. Appearance-wise, it’s a pretty More
Bike Commute Challenge Reveals Who Talks a Good Game, But...
News The Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance just released the results of this year's bike commute challenge .
The challenge included 1073 workplaces an... More
Unlucky Strike
The Oregon lottery is going into detox—and our state budget is along for the smoke-free ride.
News It’s 11:30 am on a Friday at Asian Garden, a strip-mall karaoke joint next to a Beaverton Safeway. Seated at the bar is Sally Runyon, a 50-year-old divorced mother of two, who is just off her e ... More
Our spin on 7 days of news
News MEET THE SHERWOOD FOREST LOBBY: Along with timber payments for the counties, the state’s congressional delegation secured a tax break for an Oregon company selling toy arrow shafts in the $700 ... More
Top Articles from COREY PEIN
The Other Portland
It’s poor, it’s dangerous, it’s growing like crazy—and it’s more important than ever. Cheat Local!
Portland helped make Groupon a giant. Here’s how local businesses get crushed. Death of a Yogi
The battle for a corporate empire, hundreds of millions of dollars and the meaning of a faith. NikeLeaks
Thanks to Julian Assange, we now know how Oregon’s top company fights corruption, counterfeiting and Croatian smugglers. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Busted Ranks
New allegations from a former vice cop about the top brass. War Bribes
An Oregon businessman wanted to get “filthy stinking rich.” Now he’s linked to a bribery case and risks losing his biggest customer: the U.S. Military. How to Live Cheap in Portland
Throwing too much money away on food and shelter? here’s WW’s Recession Survival Guide. The Evolution of Eileen Brady
From co-op to corporate boardroom, the making of a mayoral candidate. Chaos to Checkmate
Mayor Adams and Occupy Portland played a game in city parks. Police Chief Reese won.
It’s poor, it’s dangerous, it’s growing like crazy—and it’s more important than ever. Cheat Local!
Portland helped make Groupon a giant. Here’s how local businesses get crushed. Death of a Yogi
The battle for a corporate empire, hundreds of millions of dollars and the meaning of a faith. NikeLeaks
Thanks to Julian Assange, we now know how Oregon’s top company fights corruption, counterfeiting and Croatian smugglers. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Busted Ranks
New allegations from a former vice cop about the top brass. War Bribes
An Oregon businessman wanted to get “filthy stinking rich.” Now he’s linked to a bribery case and risks losing his biggest customer: the U.S. Military. How to Live Cheap in Portland
Throwing too much money away on food and shelter? here’s WW’s Recession Survival Guide. The Evolution of Eileen Brady
From co-op to corporate boardroom, the making of a mayoral candidate. Chaos to Checkmate
Mayor Adams and Occupy Portland played a game in city parks. Police Chief Reese won.
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