Paul Stanford Files Pot Initiative For 2014: Updated

News The politics of marijuana are going to get a lot more complicated. Paul Stanford, a longtime marijuana activist whose legalization effort, Measure 80, failed in 2012, yesterday filed an initiative petition for 2014, seeking to change the constitution to legalize pot.During the current legislative session, powerful interests from around the country came to Oregon to move towards the kind of legalization ...   More

 

Friday, June 7, 2013 NIGEL JAQUISS

Yellow Bellies

Which local mustards pass muster?

Food Reviews & Stories Most shelves at the Made in Oregon store are stocked with the obvious: Jams made from native berries, our famous wines and cheeses, the blankets our pioneers traded to indigenous people before s   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Ries Above

Testing 11 grocery-store-bought Oregon rieslings.

Drank Oregon rieslings are not like German rieslings. Grown in the cool climates along the Rhine river, traditional German rieslings are sweet and fruity. Though the Willamette Valley is also known fo   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 KAITIE TODD

Beer Guide 2013: Out and About

Favorite breweries from across Oregon.

Beer Guide 2013 The Coast Astoria: In 1985, Chunk and Mikey stole our heart. In 2006, Fort George Brewery (1483 Duane St., Astoria, fortgeorgebrewery.com) came for a piece of our liver. Fort George’s Vortex IPA    More

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 WW Staff

Obama Offers Semi-Terrifying Chart of What Oregon Could Lose in the Sequester

News  Another week, another budget standoff. This time, it's the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts if President Barack Obama can't make a deal with Congress by March 1.Who cares? you say. I only worry about things that affect me and my fellow Oregonians.The president has anticipated your reaction. In fact, the White House has produced a strategically terrifying breakdown of how sequestration ...   More

 

Monday, February 25, 2013 AARON MESH

Puff, Puff

What will it take for Oregon to finally pass legal marijuana?

Featured Stories “One reason Measure 80 didn’t pass in Oregon is that the big boys back East who put money into campaigns—Peter Lewis and George Soros—the organizations they help fund aren’t particularly   More

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 WW Staff

A Question of Force

Experts on sexual violence against women speculate why Oregon’s numbers are so high.

News Last week, WW published an issue devoted to V-Day, an international campaign set for Feb. 14 to draw attention to violence against women. Some of the numbers were surprising: 27 percent of Oregon    More

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 MATT KAUFFMAN

The Violence Persists

Fewer reports, but still a big problem.

News Violent crime has dropped in Portland in the past decade, including assaults. But the percentage of assaults that involve domestic violence has decreased only slightly—from 48 percent in 2001, t   More

 

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 WW Editorial Staff

Talking With the Enemy

In an unprecedented Oregon program, domestic-violence victims ask questions of abusers.

News Hope Vanderhoof for eight years put up with being hit in the head and kicked with steel-toed boots by her boyfriend. She finally ended the relationship in 2005, when he tried to kill her by settin   More

 

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AARON MESH

Driving to Drink

A new liquor sales law in Washington is sending hordes of booze buyers into Oregon.

News For years now, the embattled Oregon Liquor Control Commission has been fighting powerful lobbyists for grocery store chains that want to end the state’s nearly 80-year monopoly on selling booze.   More

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 OLGA KOZINSKIY