The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said Jim Goad and a Labor Union That Wants to Push Out Local Restaurants at PDX

In the past week, WW has received an interesting array of responses to our cover story on onetime Portland author Jim Goad (“The White Stuff,” WW, Oct. 18, 2017).

The Dialogue: What Readers Said About a Proposal to Widen Interstate 5 at the Rose Quarter and Sewer Workers Who Want a Better Contract

Last week, WW wrote about a proposal to spend nearly a half-billion dollars to widen Interstate 5 at the Rose Quarter (“The Low Road,” WW, Oct. 11, 2017). Here’s what readers had to say about the proposal:

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About the Possibility of 40-Story Skyscrapers in Downtown Portland

Last week, WW wrote about a Portland-based real estate development company offering to build up to 500 affordable apartments with no public money. In return, it wants City Hall to grant the rights to build skyscrapers as tall as 40 stories along the downtown waterfront (“Aiming High,” WW, Oct. 4, 2017). Here’s what readers said about one of the city’s most hotly debated issues:

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About the Difficulties of Regulating Adult Foster Homes As Oregon’s Population Ages

Last week, WW wrote about Brad Mayer, whose death places a spotlight on the difficulties of running and regulating adult foster homes as Oregon’s population ages (“In a Better Place,” WW, Sept. 27, 2017). Mayer’s adult foster home was shut down by Multnomah County and state officials. Here’s what readers said about the problem.

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About Minority Access to Capital and a Prosecutor’s Decision to Cripple a Judge’s Career

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About a Millennial With a Cannabis Invention, and a Former Mentor Who Says It Was Actually His Idea

Last week, WW wrote about a millennial named Andrew Jones who says his invention will dominate the cannabis concentrates industry, and his 73-year-old former mentor who says Jones is profiting from his invention (“Oil Wars,” WW, Aug. 23, 2017). Here’s what readers said.

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About the Major Development Projects That Could Radically Alter Portland

“Come on, admit it. Old Portland sucked.”

The Dialogue: Here’s What Readers Said About the Defiant Couple Breeding Big Cats in Portland’s Suburbs

“The four scariest words in this story are “self-taught animal handler.”