News Roger Porter, the dean of restaurant reviewers in this city, was told recently that his services are no longer needed by The Oregonian. For three decades, Porter has been chronicling the growth of the food scene in Portland. For 18 years, he reviewed restaurants for WW, only to leave in 2006 to write for The O. Porter was an omnivore but had a particular fondness for Jewish delis and French food. ...   More

News Never say we bogarted the medical marijuana stories today. In response to this protest, which was in response to this editorial dismissing the merits of medical marijuana in The Oregonian, Oregon Green Free finally met this morning with Bob Caldwell, the daily's editorial page editor. Jim Klahr, CEO for Oregon Free, says the meeting was “pretty positive” and that the medical marijuana ...   More

News Some readers of The Sunday Oregonian were likely surprised yesterday by the paper's use of the word "shit" in a quote from the subject of a front-page profile. Not that we have any objection to using "shit" or any of George Carlin's "seven dirty words" in the paper. But we are curious whenever "shit" makes a rare appearance in the daily paper and why editors in this case gave the OK. Yesterday's ...   More

News Three months after Mayor Sam Adams called the proposal for a new westside staging area a top city priority, City Council appeared no closer today to agreeing where on Portland's west side to site that staging area to respond to possible natural disasters. Until that siting decision happens, City Council won't begin to discuss how to pay for the staging area. The funding had been included in ...   More

News The op-ed piece in this morning's Oregonian by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on the mosque and Muslim community center that's been proposed near Ground Zero makes for a thought-provoking read. Merkley writes I appreciate the depth of emotions at play, but respectfully suggest that the presence of a mosque is only inappropriate near ground zero if we unfairly associate Muslim Americans with ...   More

News The Oregonian's editorial board last week endorsed John Kitzhaber for governor and filmed its discussion about this important decision. We heard the video could be found on the daily's website. Unfortunately, OregonLive is so impossible to navigate that we could not find it. Thankfully, someone did send us a "bootleg copy," although, for some reason, it was dubbed in German. We did find someone ...   More