Dialogue
Readers Respond to Health Insurance Chaos for Providence Customers
“Only other questions I have is who is starting the class action and where can I sign up?”
Readers Respond to State Subsidy for Moda Center
If any of them worked at a company they would be fired for making a deal as bad and one-sided as this.”
Readers Respond to Openings and Closings Across Portland
A Rockwood man might support Moda Center’s renovation if they throw in an ice rink.
Readers Respond to the Proposed $600 Million Renovation of Moda Center
“I’ll probably continue to periodically watch the Blazers regardless of the city they relocate to and do so at the local sports bar my friends and I decide to go to that night.”
Readers Respond to John Kitzhaber Beating Back Changes to the Oregon Health Plan
“I’ve always respected Dr. No when it comes to health care because he gets it.”
Readers Respond to Home Forward’s Tenant Screening Policies
“A real example of what I think of as the ‘one in 1,000 problem’ which plagues public policy.”
Readers Respond to a Proposed Ban on Killing Oregon Animals
It might be the first issue in recent memory that unites the commenters on wweek.com with the posters on Bluesky: Thanks, they hate it.
Readers Respond to an Upscale Preschool Where a Well-Known Chef Makes the Snacks
“What the wealthy do with their money is generally not a concern of mine, but making sure the nonwealthy have affordable access to quality schools is.”
Readers Respond to the Means of Ascent on Portland City Council
“Using a single axis to chart political alignment on a nonpartisan city council entirely made up of registered Democrats is stupid and I wish local media would stop doing it.”
Readers Respond to a Border Patrol Shooting in Portland
A chill ran through Portland on Jan. 8 as word spread across the city that a Border Patrol agent had shot two people in a car on the campus of Adventist Health Portland.
Readers Respond to Doom Loop Debate
“Are we in a doom loop? No, but if we can’t address the affordability crisis facing our city and get our fiscal house in order, we run the risk of entering one.”
Readers Respond to Real Estate Investors, Port Dredging, and SantaCon
“I’m sorry to break the news that Willamette Week has been conned by fake Santas.”











