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

News We may lack the romantic beaches of Hawaii or the urban charm of New York, but the Beaver State is the best place to have sex, at least according to progressive website Upworthy.Oregon earned this distinction by becoming the state with the least number of abortion restrictions in the nation. Our number of restrictions? Zero. Oklahoma has the most, with 22 laws restricting abortions, including a near-total ...   More

Cover Story Like most icons, Gloria Steinem is smaller than you would expect, fine boned and angular. She still parts her hair down the center...   More

News  A mother and daughter from Redmond, Oregon serving as Republican National Convention delegates told a radio reporter yesterday that Missouri Rep. Todd Akin was right that women getting pregnant from rape is "so completely rare."Toni and Emily Jarms were in Tampa this week supporting Rick Santorum. But when Public Radio International reporter Todd Zwillich John Hockenberry asked them about Akin's ...   More

News Gunshots were fired at least 11 times in the last two months in the outer-eastside neighborhoods currently represented by state...   More

News Tomorrow is the deadline for turning in signatures for measures aimed at the November 6 general election ballot. Although it promises to be a busy day at the Secretary of State's elections division, neither of the abortion-related measures circulating will make the ballot.One measure Initiative Petition 22, defined life as beginning at fertilization and said "no person shall be denied the right to ...   More

News Kiwis In Portland is hosting a fundraiser for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake tonight, Wednesday, March 2, at 6 pm at the Buffalo Gap. Funds raised in the silent auction and raffle (in which you could win Icebreaker outdoor apparel) will go to the New Zealand Red Cross. Party like the Kiwis do, and aid the victims of last week’s natural disaster by enjoying roasted lamb and a pint of Steinlager. ...   More

News In memory of Dr. George Tiller, Planned Parenthood will hold a candlelight vigil Sunday evening in Northeast Portland. Tiller, who was nationally recognized for providing late-term abortions, was shot and killed at a church in Kansas City last week. The Portland vigil will begin at 6 p.m. at the Planned Parenthood Regional Service Center (3727 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd). Visit www.ppcw.org ...   More

News This Sunday, Oregon Right to Life will hold a Roe v. Wade memorial rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square from 2 pm to 3 pm to, in the anti-abortion group's words, “remember the lives of 51 million children lost to abortion, and call upon our nation and its leaders to give children the protection they deserve.” Around the same time, and not by coincidence, Radical Women, NARAL Pro-choice ...   More