News Last fall Suzanne Gallagher came to WW's offices for an endorsement interview during her challenge to incumbent Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland). Burdick, who entered the Legislature in 1997, defeated Gallagher by a margin of 69 percent to 31 percent in November.But over the weekend, the Oregon GOP gave a Gallagher a consolation prize, electing her to replace Allen Alley for a two-year term as party ...   More

Murmurs One Portland politician isn’t softening his stance toward Walmart as the retail giant hires local software talent (“Value Shopping,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012). City Commissioner-elect Steve Novick says   More

News Look for some unhappy Portland Democrats after today's announcement that PGE Park will be renamed Jeld-Wen Field when the Timbers begin play in Major League Soccer.Not because there's any great sentiment for PGE, the state's largest utility and a subsidiary of Enron when it hung its name on the old Civic Stadium a decade ago.But rather because of the political activities of Jeld-Wen's founder, the ...   More

News Now that Bob Tiernan has announced he's stepping down as chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, Allen Alley is announcing both his run to replace Tiernan and his list of key supporters. In addition to announcing Tiernan's support, Alley said this afternoon on the state GOP web site that U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, the only Republican in Oregon's seven-person congressional delegation, is backing ...   More

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News At the end of 2008, we named the Republican Party of the Oregon our Rogue of the Year for general incompetence. Some Republicans did not appreciate the honor. One of them is Jay Kushner, chairman of the Multnomah County Republicans. He's an affable guy who ran for state representative in 2006 but his letter reinforces the point made in our Rogue of The Year. Why? Well, Kushner hammers WW ...   More

News In case anybody wonders what all the noise from our office was last night, we and hundreds of the paper's closest friends were celebrating our Best of Portland issue. Ex-WW staffer Byron Beck was good enough to chronicle all the festivities with this set of photos (like the one above) at Byron Beck's Window - including shots of Mayor Sam Adams, Bob Ball, Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogen ...   More

News Former Portland Trail Blazer Chris Dudley officially announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination today at the North Portland campus of Self Enhancement, Inc. In front of an overflow crowd of about 150, former Blazers announcer Bill Schonley introduced Dudley, who he says "has never been afraid to take on the biggest guy or challenge." Dudley, who has never run for ...   More

News It's been all of 12 hours since Oregon voters passed both Measures 66 and 67, and we must know now what it all means from a national perspective. So here's a sampling of the punditocracy so far:Firedoglake calls Oregon's vote to approve the tax measures "a lesson for Democrats" that runs counter to the national media narrative of this being like 1994 when the country lurched to the right in ...   More

News GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley, the former Portland Trail Blazers center, has shown strong fundraising skills in his first foray into electoral politics. On Monday, he picked up checks from National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern ($2,500) and former Blazers coach P.J. Carlesimo ($500), now an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs. After months of studying the ...   More