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Mark Frohnmayer Built a Three-Wheeled Rocket Trike. Why Is It Worth a Billion Dollars?

Frohnmayer has come closer than anybody to bridging the gulf between our gas-guzzling present and an electric future.

Some People Keep Telling Christina Malone She Looks Unhealthy. She’s an Elite Athlete.

In 2019, she did something only 71 other women in the world could. What reception will she return to?

You’re Driving Too Damn Fast

A new report shows it’s not texting, drunken drivers, teenagers or jaywalkers causing Portland’s epidemic of pedestrian deaths. It’s speed.

For Nearly a Year, Teenagers Have Been Robbing Portland Dispensaries. Then Somebody Shot a Budtender.

In one year, Portland-area cannabis shops reported more than half a million dollars stolen.

Obituaries for Portland Are Premature. But What Will Become of Its Most Important Neighborhood?

Over the past week, WW did what pundits won’t: We spent our days and nights in downtown Portland.

The City of Portland Wants a New Carbon Tax. It Might Kill Bottle Recycling in Oregon to Get One.

If the Owens-Brockway glass plant closes, all of Oregon’s bottles would have to be shipped out of state—a prodigious use of diesel fuel—or thrown in landfills.

Inside the Company That Would Pay the Biggest Share of the City’s Carbon Tax

It’s the last steel sheet mill west of the Rockies.

What Can Democrats and Republicans Still Agree On? We Asked Susheela Jayapal and Stan Pulliam.

Oregon’s partisan turmoil is a microcosm of the split that has turned Washington, D.C., this week into a heavily guarded fortress.

Letter From a COVID Ward

The Dec. 2 message that started this week’s cover story.

Can We Get a Pandemic Puppy? Dog Breeders Are Among the Businesses Booming Amid Oregon’s Freeze.

Many people realized they still had paychecks but none of the usual places to spend them.

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