News It’s a great time to be an animal in America. At least, that was the underlying theme of an animal-law conference last weekend at Lewis & Clark Law School, home to the Center for Animal Law Stud ...   More

News Where Northeast Beech Street meets Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, about a half-dozen anti-abortion protesters gather nearly every day in front of a large, overgrown patch of grass. They arrive for ...   More

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Are you ready for Digital TV? If you're a Portlander, there's a good chance the answer is no.
Ready or not, all analog television channels are switching to the digital format in less than four months.
That means if you don't subscribe to cable or satellite and don...   More

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While the rest of us watch the final presidential debate tomorrow night, one group will be busy organizing to bring that mega-event to Portland in 2012.

During a debate-viewing party starting at 5:45 pm at    More

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Tomorrow's 5 pm voter registration deadline is rapidly approaching, and Barack Obama's presidential campaign—looking to bolster a    More

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Fed up with election fraud and wanting to change the way America values democracy, Bobby Kennedy Jr. and investigative journalist Greg Palast have put together a comic book, out tod...   More

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Less than a week after a life-size cutout of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree on the campus of George Fox University, another public display of hatred toward the presidential hopeful appeared in a Southwest Portland neighborhoo...   More

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A local artist has found an eye-catching way to show his support for Sen. Barack Obama as the election approaches.
Mark Lysgaard, whose studio is in Northwest Portland, painted a 6 1/2 foot tall cardboard cutout of the preside...   More

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Ordinarily, most voters probably couldn't care about the candidates for state Treasurer.

But with the national economy in extraordinary meltdown, the race between Republican Allen Alley (below) and Democrat   More

News By the time Mayor-elect Sam Adams gets his proposed resolution regulating plastic grocery bags before City Council, a growing part of the market may have already passed him by. Eugene-based Market of ...   More