News Your email inbox was surely jammed yesterday with alarmed messages regarding the U.S. Postal Service's plan to stop delivering most mail on Saturdays. Esquire wasn't surprised: The magazine's February issue includes a feature story on the crossroads facing the Post Office. It's a lengthy beast (it takes about as long to read as it does to deliver a letter), but it adroitly combines a Sesame Street-style ...   More

News The right hasn't had much to party about recently in Oregon or nationally as of late. But to the dismay of many on the left, this Wednesday, April 15, FreedomWorks will host 500 Tea Party events nationwide, including at 19 locations in Oregon, to protest how the feds have handled corporate and mortgage bailouts, the debt caused by the stimulus package, and the potential deficit caused by President ...   More

News U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is back with a bill proposing to rename the U.S. Postal Service office at 630 NE Killingsworth Ave. the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Post Office. The measure failed to pass in the last congressional session. But Blumenauer spokeswoman Erin Allweiss says the Oregon Democrat is “feeling optimistic” the bill he introduced last Friday will pass this ...   More