News Look around—those 17 other people next to you in the coffee shop hunched over their laptops might be hunting the Web for kitty videos or Kate Middleton’s tanning habits. You, of course, are Go   More

Letters to the Editor The article states the problem [“Block Busters,” WW, Sept. 19, 2012]. You spoke to 10 residents who have 11 cars among them. It doesn’t matter if they don’t drive them very often, they sti   More

Murmurs It’s election season, so you can expect campaigns to be making stuff up. But the Measure 79 campaign is the worst in a long time. The measure would amend the state constitution to ban real-estate    More

Features OK, OK. we heard you: the crossword in today's paper is missing some clues! WW regrets the error. The full clues are below:Across 1) Loud event 12) Mauna ___ 15) She drinks Go-Go Juice and showed her belly to the judges 16) Furthermore 17) Tudor symbol 18) General who's an enemy of Superman 19) Keep a ship from leaving port, maybe 20) On the line...   More

News The U.S. Department of Justice last week released a damning report about the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force. The details may...   More

Letters to the Editor Laurie Notaro came to our writers’ group using a fake name (Laurie Upton) and representing herself as a writer looking for feedback and critique [“Words to the Wolves,” WW, Sept. 12, 2012]   More

Murmurs It’s rare for charitable groups to make political contributions—federal law discourages them from converting donations (deductible to the giver) into political cash. But a couple of local 50   More

News The US Department of Justice will announce this morning that it's found the Portland Police Bureau has engaged in a practice and pattern of using excessive force against people who have mental illness, and that the bureau has committed constitutional rights violations. At a Thursday morning press conference, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said the investigation foun...   More

Letters to the Editor Having read this article [“Who’s Listening to Diane Roark?,” WW, Sept. 5, 2012], I found it chilling. Not only by the account from Ms. Roark and how she had been targeted in such an outright   More

Rogue of the Week Ben Stein has gotten a lot of traction out of his turn as a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”). He’s since...   More