Letters to the Editor Scalping is the free market at work [“Ticket Masters,” WW, April 17, 2013]. If you have something of value and someone is willing to pay for it, there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is   More

Murmurs At least 315 cars have been towed from the Old Town Entertainment District since December, when the city started closing down six blocks in Northwest on weekends (and certain drinking holidays)    More

News State Sen. Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) is being treated at Oregon Health & Science University after a car wreck Monday morning. Johnson tells WW she rear-ended a car when pulling onto Highway 30 near her home. She was on her way to Salem at the time.
The accident was low impact, she says, and did not seem to injure the other driver. But when Johnson tried to walk afterwards, ...   More

Letters to the Editor Look, I commute by bike, I occasionally go grocery shopping on my bike, and I love riding to the bar for a few beers. But can we please get over this holier-than-thou crap? [“Spoke Addicts,” W   More

Murmurs While Oregon education czar Rudy Crew is pushing a reform agenda in Salem, he’s hoping to moonlight so he can add to his $280,000-a-year state salary (see “Wrecking Crew,” WW, Jan. 16, 2013).    More

Letters to the Editor As a Southeast Stumptown homeowner, I notice that folks in single-family dwellings tend to assume “rights” to the street—aka the commons—in front of their homes [“Paranoid Parking,” WW   More

Murmurs The Bureau of Development Services has suspended four commercial electrical inspectors and fired one after an investigation found they were loafing at a Northwest Industrial District diner. Sources fa   More

Letters to the Editor Well, the current laws only seek to pad the pockets of wind producers who get enormous subsidies and forced legislated demand [“A Big Dam Fight Ahead,” WW, March 27, 2011]. All of this at the    More

Murmurs The fluoride battle this week produced a phone-book-sized collection of voters pamphlet statements, with 46 pages of arguments for fluoridation and a whopping 85 against. Most supporting arguments   More

Letters to the Editor OMG! This guy needs to be stopped! [“Rise of the Falcon,” WW, March 20, 2013.] He uses his own money to set up an artist’s community of inexpensive studio space, but insists in choosing the ar   More