Murmurs Metro has said publicly that a new headquarters hotel at the Oregon Convention Center would get a $10.4 million cash subsidy from the regional government and the City of Portland. But documents    More

Letters to the Editor From the beginnings of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, I have wondered why its proponents thought the already existing, years-in-the-making, brilliantly successful black market in cannabis would    More

Murmurs One Portland politician isn’t softening his stance toward Walmart as the retail giant hires local software talent (“Value Shopping,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012). City Commissioner-elect Steve Novick says   More

Letters to the Editor I am an alumnus of Lewis & Clark Law School and a victim of child molestation [“Barred,” WW, Aug. 22, 2012]. What [Aaron L. Munter] did was horrible and he deserved to be punished. I am co   More

Murmurs Gov. John Kitzhaber keeps rolling the dice on Elisa Dozono. In May, WW reported that Kitzhaber submitted Portland lawyer Dozono’s name for a vacancy on the Oregon Lottery Commission, then withdrew i   More

Letters to the Editor I really enjoyed this article [“Buried Alive,” WW, Aug. 15, 2012]. I was in Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop and had a great time with the crew playing a traveling salesman who gets murde   More

Murmurs The U.S. Department of Agriculture has fined Oregon Health & Science University $11,679 in the 2009 deaths of five monkeys at the school’s Oregon National Primate Research Center. Two died aft   More

News One of the best places for political junkies to keep an eye on every tremor of the presidential race is FiftyThirtyEight, the New York Times blog dedicated to tracking polls and probabilities.The blog (named for the total number of electoral votes) uses sophisticated tracking and analysis to weigh polls and trends ...   More

Letters to the Editor This is a problem that has been looming on the horizon for years, and [The Oregonian] has nobody but itself to blame [“Stop the Presses,” WW, Aug. 8, 2012]. I remember several years ago, to ce   More

Murmurs For the first time in recent memory, The Oregonian is taking a pass on the presidential race. The daily told readers Aug. 14 it won’t endorse a candidate for president. Insiders say Publisher N. Chr   More