News Those white-and-blue Smartcars you might've seen all over town belong to a new car-sharing service (yes, another one) run by Daimler, the German car company, called Car2Go.

There's been some conspiratorial interest in this service over at Jack Bogdanski's blog, and a bit of wonkish speculat...   More

Cover Story Not many people remember the great snout-house debate of 1999.  But Jeff Fish does. His company, Fish Construction NW Inc...   More

News A long debate has finally and decisively been settled.Matt Groening, "The Simpsons" creator and Portland native, tells Smithsonian magazine that he named the famous fictional city after the Oregon city.The relevant section of the interview:   More

News Over the past two weeks, readers of The Oregonian have witnessed an extraordinary episode in the newspaper’s 162-year history. On March 10, Bob Caldwell, a respected Oregon journalist and longti   More

News One of the original investors who created New Seasons Market disputes Eileen Brady’s claims that she was a “founding co-owner” of the company and played a meaningful role in creating the pop   More

Cover Story It’s dawn on a Tuesday, and 30 women have gathered in a 15th-floor conference room in the Standard Plaza at a sold-out breakfast of coffee, melon and bagels. They’ve come to hear Portland’s    More

News Steve Novick, the environmental lawyer and former U.S. Senate candidate who is running to replace Randy Leonard on the Portland City Council, laid out his platform yesterday in a lengthy BlueOregon post.The post went o...   More

News Anonymous—the hacker group famous for Guy Fawkes masks and anti-Scientology protests...   More

News Less than a week after a man's unnecessary death led the Portland Fire and Rescue Bureau to warn of the dangers of compulsive hoarding, firefighters across state line in Clark County put out a similar call.
Clark County Fire District 6 Tuesday night responded to a two-a...   More

News For the second time in a week, Portland firefighters were stymied by home clutter, the Fire Bureau announced today. An unnamed man in his 50s died during an attempted rescue this morning in Northeast Portland after "some of [his] home's excessive contents fell on him," the bureau announcement says. The death prompted the bureau to ask people to encourage compulsive hoarders they may know to s...   More