Sports At 2:30 am, most late-night establishments release the drunks and lock the doors. But on Saturday, April 2, last call was when the party really started for one Portland business. Swagat, an Indian    More

News So, I haven't been drawing cartoons for the blog lately. And I look back on those fancy-free days and I think, "What the fuck? How did I have time to do those?" I guess when you put your mind to something, nothing can get in your way. Until something does. And then that something is all you can see. I hope to make two very elaborate cartoons for the season's last two home games. For now, you get this ...   More

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News The City of Portland is flying flags at half staff today in memory of Yashanee Vaughn, the 14-year-old girl and Helensview High School student who was killed.Flags will be lowered in town at City Hall, the Portland Building, the World Trade Center, Pioneer Courthouse Square, and the Convention Center.On Thursday, Portland Police detectives arrested 16-year-old Parrish Bennette in connection with ...   More

News Some residents around Central Catholic High School in Southeast Portland have formed a petition seeking to relocate the school after years of what they call struggling with limited space, parking and traffic issues.As Central Catholic prepares to implement a $30 million expansion that would eliminate all but two on-site parking spaces, the campus' disgruntled neighbors have organized to stop the school ...   More

News At a town hall meeting Saturday, city Commissioner Amanda Fritz introduced Friends of Last Thursday, an organization 15 months in the making that will assume the task of overseeing the monthly street festival on Northeast Alberta Street. Reaction was mixed as Fritz unveiled the steering committee-a long-awaited answer to Last Thursday’s fate amid complaints from some residents that the monthly event ...   More

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News A seemingly mundane discussion today at Portland City Hall about bonds related to a $72.4 million fire-equipment measure morphed into a verbal tussle over the planned purchase of four emergency vehicles.Those four emergency vehicles were part of the ballot measure that city voters narrowly approved last year to beef up emergency-response infrastructure in Portland. But, as Commissioners Amanda Fritz ...   More