Willamette Week

Now that Same-Sex Marriage is Legal, Why Does the City of Portland Continue to Provide Benefits to Domestic Partners?

Whom an employer chooses to cover is a (somewhat) separate issue from which relationships are recognized by the state.

If Someone Punched the President of the U.S. in the Nose, What Would the Consequences Be?

As you might have suspected, it is more illegal to assault the president than it is to assault a regular person. Title 18 of the U.S. Code provides a penalty of up to 10 years for assaulting the chief. (According to the same law, assaulting the deputy secretary of agriculture—yes, it’s in there—only gets you a year.)

Why Hasn’t Southwest 3rd Avenue and Oak Street Been Developed Yet?

Who would sit, dithering, on such a potentially profitable piece of real estate for so long?

U.S. President Herbert Hoover Was From Oregon. How Come Nothing Here Is Named After Him?

Where’s Hoover’s swag?

What is “The Oregon Study?” And How Did We End Up Getting Used to Justify Scrapping Public Insurance?

Oh, Oregon, how God hates you

Do Carbon Offsets Do Any Good or Am I Just Wasting My Money?

To their credit, our local power provider, PGE, is not relying on this simple switcheroo to justify its green-power option.

Has Legal Marijuana Caused an Increase or Decrease in Traffic Accidents and Deaths?

The insurance lobby says states with legal marijuana have had a 14 percent increase in accidents. But The Oregonian says traffic deaths are down 50 percent this year.

Are 40-oz. Bottles of Malt Liquor Legal in Oregon?

I used to buy 40-oz. bottles of malt liquor in Colorado, but in Oregon I have never been able to find this drink size in any convenience store.

Could We Restructure PERS Under Bankruptcy Without Affecting Other State Services?

Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System is $22 billion short.

Will You Be Allowed to Pull Over on I-5 and Watch the Solar Eclipse in August?

It’s as if they rerouted the march of the penguins through downtown Kelso—what are you going to do, not go, you pathetic fatass?

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