The Nose The Nose loves the Portland Trail Blazers. He has a weakness for everything about the team, from Damon's herky-jerky style of play to Bonzi's lightning-quick moves to the hoop. But what the Nose r ...   More

The Nose The Nose is worried.It wasn't always this way. Panic once was swatted away like a bothersome fly. The Nose used to be a Sunday regular at the church of "You have nothing to fear but fear itself." ...   More

The Nose This weekend, seeking a distraction from fears about anthrax in the mail and the Oregon Ducks choking on their pre-season hype, the Nose decided to take a trip upstairs.Deep in the back of the att ...   More

The Nose Last week, the Nose took to the air for the first time since Sept. 11, fully expecting to be cavity-searched and scanned like a cancer patient who had swallowed a batch of barium. Not a chance. De ...   More

The Nose Last week, Dick Reiten struck a blow for parochialism, vowing to rescue our once-local electric company from those damn Texans who stole it a few years back. Reiten, the head of Northwest Natural, ...   More

The Nose Since it's not my habit these days to chill with Phil, I can only speculate as to how he spent Sept. 11. I'm guessing that, like the rest of us, he was glued to the tube for a good chunk of the da ...   More

The Nose Once upon a time, in the land of Cascadia, a colony of squirrels lived within a verdant filbert forest. Every four years, for as long as forest-dwellers could remember, they had chosen one squirre ...   More