Murmurs The Grove Hotel, a $3.7 million Portland Development Commission project to revitalize Old Town-Chinatown, is on life support. City emails obtained by WW show David Gold—lead partner in the pla   More

Letters to the Editor I was disappointed to read WW’s coverage of the Measure 11 controversy [“The Hard Truth About Oregon’s Prison’s,” March 13, 2013]—not because the research was unsound or the position c   More

Murmurs It’s not like Jack Bogdanski to be coy. The Lewis & Clark Law School professor, best known by the nom de blog Bojack, is ever willing to skewer local officials and the media. But this week   More

Letters to the Editor I was both thrilled and disappointed by WW’s cover story [“Who Wants to Save a Junkie,” March 6, 2013]. First, I’d like to applaud Sen. Alan Bates [introducing] Senate Bill 384 to make Nar   More

Murmurs The Oregon Senate voted 29-0 this week to require restaurants run by public entities to undergo routine health inspections. The legislation was prompted by a WW story in December that reported the O   More

Letters to the Editor I enjoyed your article about Kutless [“Jesus Freaks,” WW, Feb. 27, 2013]. I’m a Christian, but not one of those Christians. I have heard of Kutless, but only because they sell their CDs at Fred    More

Murmurs Political pressure has been increasing on Mayor Charlie Hales to restore $1.2 million for sidewalk construction on Southeast 136th Avenue, after a 5-year-old girl, Morgan Maynard-Cook, was struck an   More

Letters to the Editor Oregon should legitimize its current huge cannabis industry with an eye toward the eventual nationwide market, and position its growers and processors for global domination [“Endo Days,” WW, F   More

Murmurs City officials were flushed with pride last November over news that the Portland Loo open-air public restroom they sold to Victoria, B.C., had been voted “Canada’s Best Toilet” in a national p   More

Letters to the Editor I would like to make a couple of points of clarification regarding Aaron Mesh’s article [“Fiscal Bluff,” WW, Feb. 13, 2013]. The first is that the residents at the Clark Center are not vagra   More