Going tram-surfing with an operator for Portland's newest transit option.
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When Kevin Holtzman moved here from The Dalles last fall, he looked on Monster.com for a job to tide him over while getting ready to start school at Portland State University.What the 29-year-old foun ...
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"Botox Doc" says in pre-prison interview that if he's wrong, so are a lot of other doctors.
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On the eve of his 18-month imprisonment after pleading guilty in connection with his use of a non-FDA-approved botulism toxin treatment on patients wanting to look younger, Dr. Jerome Lentini says he ...
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An African man who stood up to his own government now helps African refugees in Portland.
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Djimet Dogo arrived in Portland more than seven years ago from Chad, where the government threatened him for publishing a critical report about the Central African nation's practice of killing alleged ...
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When the Oregon Legislature opened its 2007 session on Monday, nobody was more excited than Ramona Kenady, chief clerk of the House of Representatives.You won't often see Kenady's name in the paper. B ...
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Mayor's departing chief of staff on whether she's "passionate" or a "pushy bitch."
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A burst of orange flowers sits on Nancy Hamilton's desk in the elegant City Hall office she announced last week she's leaving. It's the day after Hamilton, 46, publicly stated that she would be steppi ...
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What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater.
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The cheerful Portland Center Stage volunteer summed up actor Wade McCollum's status as Portland theater royalty when she picked up the phone to page him: "You must be here to write another rave about ...
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The former governor of Colorado comes to Portland with a message: Your Medicare-loving grandma may be a welfare queen.
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Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm is a pro-assisted suicide, anti-illegal immigration Democrat whose political career in his home state and on the national stage is marked by attention-getting ini ...
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A longtime toy-store owner wonders if downtown construction will dampen holiday cheer.
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Karen Leppmann likes to play with toys. For a living.As the 54-year-old owner of Finnegan's Toys and Gifts, Leppmann has provided a staple of downtown Portland shopping since 1977.But Leppmann is worr ...
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A Thanskgiving check-in with a Portlander far from home.
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Randy Bluffstone is 8,505 miles away from home this Thanksgiving.The 46-year-old Portland State University economics professor is spending the current academic year working in Ethiopia at the Ethiopia ...
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New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs.
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Brian Ferriso comes to his new job as executive director at the Portland Art Museum from a similar post in Oklahoma, where he remembers battling stiff competition for the entertainment dollar.That com ...
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