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The Border Patrol shooting of two Venezuelan nationals last week occurred outside Adventist Health Portland. It’s not the first time that the campus of the Southeast Portland hospital has been the site of a shooting by law enforcement that alarmed the city.

On the face of it, David William Cripps was a generous, gentle fiddler. But the former Green Beret was haunted by his past as a jungle fighter in Vietnam, and he became another unofficial casualty of the war.

Holiday tales about a monk, drunks and a megastore flunky.

Product-testing Christmas, one jolly, fat man at a time.

What follows is far from a complete list of problem landlords in the Portland area circa 1987, but it’s evidence enough that despite stepped-up enforcement by the city, bad landlords were alive and well.

For decades, students in Portland Public Schools have inhabited a two-tiered system divided by black and white, and by rich and poor. This story first appeared in the Jan. 14, 2015, edition of WW.

The ease with which organized crime bilked the feds illustrates in part why healthcare costs are soaring.

“It’s like being in the world around people again. The people are nice, a little crazy sometimes, but isn’t everybody?”

We published this story in 2008, as Oregon was about to enter a very peculiar phase, in which the vice it deplores threatened the vice it adores.

“I wrote about a horrible murder/suicide. It is the only murder story I have ever written. I was so haunted by it that I knew I could never do another.” 

Parents say fears are overblown.

The Willamette divides us. Look closer at the spans that connect us.