News In this fascinating clip, a piece of the interview we did with Ted Kulongoski, the soon-to-be-departing governor talks about public employees unions' outsized power and the business community's reaction to that state of affairs. The Democratic governor offers a bit of history on how the unions tried to knock him out of the race when he ran for Attorney General in 1992 and how they attempted to ...   More

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News In this clip from our interview with departing Governor Ted Kulongoski,(A fuller version of the interview appears in this week's print version of the paper), he discusses his ambivalence about running for reelection in 2006 because of the loss of Neil Goldschmidt as an advisor. Goldschmidt retreated from public service after the former governor and Portland mayor was found to have abused a girl ...   More

News The 112th Congress opens today with Republicans now controlling the House and a diminished Democratic majority running the Senate. If you're not a wonk and don't pay much attention to politics, here are at least three quick Oregon- and Washington-centric things to know: 1) Efforts by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and other Democrats to reform the filibuster so the Senate doesn't get tied up ...   More

News In this clip from our interview with Gov. Ted Kulongoski, (a fuller version appears in this week's print version of WW) the ex-Marine and soon-to-be ex-governor discusses the Oregon economy and why our lack of a defense industry has come at a cost. Here are links to earlier video excerpts—one where the governor talks about prisons, another where he discusses Iraq, a third where he ...   More

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News Gov. Ted Kulongoski has had a strained relationship over the past few years with John Kitzhaber, the fellow Democrat who preceded him as governor and will succeed him on Jan. 10, although the two, who were close during Kitzhaber's two previous gubernatorial terms from 1995 to 2003 have now resolved their differences. Many years ago, Kulongoski commented on how the difference between him and ...   More

News Gov. Ted Kulongoski has received plenty of sharp elbows during his 40 years in public life, and he's thrown a few himself. But in this video clip below from his recent interview with WW, Kulongoski explains why he's had enough with all that—and why he was largely invisible during the 2010 election cycle. The victim of the negative campaigning he cites is State Sen. Frank Morse (R-Corvallis), ...   More

News If I had been lucky enough and wealthy enough to be at tonight's national championship game in Arizona between Auburn and Oregon, I would have spent some time before the game with friends outside the stadium in what's known as the "Jägermeister circle." This circle welcomes all Ducks football obsessives such as myself, the idea being that everybody predicts the final score after taking ...   More

News Ever wonder what goes on at Portland's raucous monthly queer cabaret Homomentum? Well, this morning "featherless drag queen" Feyonce (aka local writer/artist Wayne Bund) sent us over an eyeful from the genderfuck variety show's latest installment (Jan. 7 at the Fez). Let's just say it involves pantyhose and thong undies, Cee-Lo, Black Swan and Feyonce getting into a cultural critique pissing ...   More