Letters to the Editor Is this article [“NikeLeaks,” WW, Dec. 14, 2011] trying to elicit empathy for Nike? At a time when Occupy movements are making efforts to educate people about income disparities, I’m offende   More

Murmurs A Portland State University student is suing the school, claiming it violated her rights by trying to evict her cats—and then her—from student housing earlier this year. Jasmine Batiste, 24, s   More

Letters to the Editor This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever [“Renter’s Hell,” WW, Dec. 7, 2011]. Every neighborhood has “apartment available” signs up everywhere! If it takes you two months to find an apa   More

Murmurs The union-backed advocacy group Our Oregon quietly dropped 13 potential ballot measures with the Oregon Secretary of State’s elections division last week. The measures have names such as “Mi   More

Letters to the Editor In “Progress Without Pepper Spray” [WW, Nov. 30, 2011], Casey Jarman describes me as “…Jeremy, a stocky middle-aged agitator in stiff brown Carhartts pants who rambles on without asking a    More

Murmurs City Commissioner Amanda Fritz won her council seat in 2008 with public financing, part of the short-lived experiment in Portland that voters killed last year. Facing re-election in 2012, Fritz    More

Letters to the Editor [Eileen] Brady is a poor [mayoral] candidate [“Political Animals,” WW, Nov. 23, 2011]. Not only does she flop, but she presents herself as entitled, special and holier-than-thou. Why? Because    More

Murmurs Multnomah County has resigned from the Oregon Housing Alliance because of the Alliance’s lobbyist, Mark Nelson. County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury says Nelson’s role in a signature-gathering fi   More

Letters to the Editor It’s a shame that this one [CSA] going under is getting so much press, when by your own account, some 59 others seem to be working [“A Trip From Bountiful,” WW, Nov. 9, 2011]. It’s hard to   More

Murmurs HEY, YOU KIDS! GET OFF MY ANCESTOR’S LAWN! Randy Panek, a descendant of W.W. Chapman, who sold the land for Chapman Square to the City of Portland 141 years ago, was so upset by Occupy Portland’s    More