Letters to the Editor The article was a good start [“Stop Being Broke,” WW, April 4, 2012], but I wish WW would focus some attention on avoiding debt, especially student-loan debt. Here in Portland, some of the you   More

Murmurs DIY taxidermist Emily Humphries, whom we featured last fall (see “The Right Stuffing,” WW, Sept. 21, 2011), says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating her under the Migratory Bird Tr   More

Letters to the Editor The Superfund cleanup of the Willamette [“What the Muck?,” WW, March 28, 2012] is a critical step to making this river whole—and to protect the terrific investment of dollars upstream to imp   More

Murmurs The coalition of property owners potentially on the hook for a Portland Harbor cleanup (see “What the Muck?,” WW, March 28, 2012) are pushing bargain-basement proposals. The companies say the    More

Letters to the Editor The article [“Lies My Newspaper Told Me,” WW, March 14, 2012] addressed solar energy in Oregon but left out important aspects of Oregon’s celebrated—and growing—solar success story. Fr   More

Murmurs Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon for months now has been talking up his brainstorm for a nightlife project, a putt-putt golf and pool room called the Portland P Palace (see “Voodoo Child,” W   More

Letters to the Editor It turned out that your lead story, [“Lies My Newspaper Told Me,” WW, March 14, 2012], wasn’t about lies other papers told me. It was an article of lies, or at best lame quarter-truths, bein   More

Murmurs Secretary of State Kate Brown has made a decision critics say is nothing more than partisanship that’s inappropriate of the state’s elections officer. As first reported on wweek.com, Brown,    More

News An editor at The Oregonian says she was fired Thursday after she misled the newspaper about the death of the O’s long-time editorial page chief, Bob Caldwell.

Kathleen Glanville, a veteran editor on the newspaper’s breaking news team, says she was trying to prevent Caldwell’s family from embarrassment about the circumstances of his death on March 10.

The newspaper reported on...   More

News Oregonians with a good memory for the bad-old days of the Oregon Citizens Alliance may remember Scott Lively.

Lively was one of the leaders of the anti-gay rights organization that pushed 1992’s Measure 9, which would have changed the state constitution to declare homosexuality as perverse and required sch...   More