The Nose Christmas came early last week for Lars Larson, Victoria Taft and the other Portland talk jocks who delight in taking verbal potshots at local pols. As the Nose sees it, Portland Mayor Vera Katz, ...   More

The Nose The Nose is not a violent man, but he does fantasize. Lately, he has been dreaming about finding one "Brett Abraham" and slicing three inches off his schwang. He's had visions of tracking down "Ch ...   More

The Nose The Nose made the mistake of betting on the Cubs and the BoSox the week before his property-tax bill arrived. He needed some extra scratch. And he needed it fast.Flipping through the daily paper's ...   More

The Nose Showing uncharacteristic restraint, the Nose waited until last weekend before calling his relatives in California. "So," he snorted, "did you go to your new governor's victory party?""My God!" came ...   More

The Nose Who would have thought Arnie had so much in common with Bob Packwood? Or that politics would, once again, prompt the question "What's wrong with an occasional grope between friends?"At the time th ...   More

The Nose Is anybody else out there getting the feeling that our president is in so far over his head on Iraq that he's getting the bends? The latest evidence? His speech to the United Nations last week, whic ...   More

The Nose A year after John Ashcroft held a press conference to announce he'd uncovered a "suspected terrorist cell" right here in Stumptown, the Nose isn't sure whether to chuckle, or tremble, at what we'v ...   More

The Nose As the Nose walked up the steps of the state Capitol building last week, he detected the familiar odor of hypocrisy. It wasn't from inside the rotunda, however. Instead it came from the other side ...   More

The Nose Politics has never been Mark Kroeker's strong suit. Sure, the Ichabod Crane lookalike is a decent guy who speaks well and has good manners, but when it comes to political adeptness, Portland's top ...   More

The Nose Shortly after the Nose slouched into his comfy MAX window seat last Friday afternoon, his daydreams about the coming weekend were interrupted by a passenger who boarded at PGE Park. The man struck ...   More