Letters to the Editor Thanks to Aaron Mesh for this excellent article [“Tusk, but Verify,” WW, Dec. 12, 2012]. This is the first time the real plans for the offsite preserve were revealed to the public. And it does   More

Murmurs It took less than a week for Carl Wolfson to raise the $40,000 he needed to start an Internet talk-radio show. The former morning host on progressive talk station KPOJ-AM 620 surpassed his Kicks   More

News Dick's Sporting Goods has issued a statement this morning about the company's decision to stop selling semiautomatic rifles at its 500-plus stores nationwide.

WW broke the news last night that Dick's ha...   More

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Murmurs Ex-Gov. Neil Goldschmidt says he’s been ripped off to the tune of $601,599—the amount he and his wife, Diana, claim in a lawsuit they invested with Arkansas-based Voyager Financial Group. Th   More

Letters to the Editor At the end of the day, it costs money to run a radio station [“Who Killed KPOJ?” WW, Nov. 28, 2012]. Money for the license, for the staff, for the electricity, for the equipment. Something has to    More

Murmurs Oregon Zoo officials are trying to explain away their misleading and false statements after the embarrassing news the zoo’s new baby elephant actually belongs to a California traveling elephant    More

News Have Trunk Will Travel, the real owner of the Oregon Zoo's new baby elephant, has faced accusations from Animal Defenders International that it has repeatedly abused its animals.ADI last year posted a video that allegedly shows a trainer for the traveling elephant troupe using an ele...   More

Letters to the Editor A great coffee issue for a great coffee city [“The Caffeinator,” WW, Nov. 21, 2012]. I live in Melbourne, Australia, a city with a massive coffee (and cycling) culture. I visited Portland a fe   More

Murmurs What can you say about a once-promising politician who lost? That he showed, even in a crushing defeat, Portland’s east-west divide still persists. State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) say   More