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

Murmurs When voters approved a new taxing district for the Multnomah County Library last fall, they also crunched the City of Portland’s budget. That’s because the new taxing district squeezed out $10 m   More

Letters to the Editor Bullshit. I remember back in the ’80s when the number passed around with shock and dismay was 1 in 5, then 1 in 4, now 1 in 3! [“1 in 3,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013.] Hell, one of the charts in this s   More

Murmurs Move over, Baltimore: Portland has its own Tommy Carcetti. City Commissioner Nick Fish will make his film debut on HBO next month in American Winter, a documentary on Portland families struggling on t   More

News A rapist is in jail, but her fear still runs loose. by Anna Bjornberg In the winter of 1995, I was 16 and a high-school senior in Boise, Idaho. I was miserable in Boise and counting down the days    More