News * It's not official yet, but Murmurs hears that Lewis & Clark College has set its sights on Paul Bragdon, a well-known and highly respected academic leader, to serve as its interim replacement for ...   More

Letters to the Editor DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FREES YOU I was amazed to read your Rogue of the Week in the June 18 issue. One seldom sees a newspaper column that ridicules someone for asserting his or her First Amend ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERSOregon's schools will stay afloat--barely--in the fall. After signing on to the governor's "bare minimum" $5.3 billion education budget, the state's schools will only have to weather $200 milli ...   More

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News * Developer John Russell will step down as the Portland Development Commission's chairman and leave the five-member volunteer board July 9. That change caught many unawares, including one of PDC's ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Bind Us to the Mast The twin towers of Siren's Echo are just...too...powerful.Every band wishes it had a truly moving song. Siren's Echo, the Portland hip-hop duo of Toni Hill and Syndel, ...   More

Letters to the Editor NOT A DEFECTThank you for our wedding announcement that appeared in your fun new column "Hitched" June 11. Unfortunately, among the innocent boo-boos in the printed version of our silly little l ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS1) Planned Parenthood employees breathed a sigh of relief when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Oregon Supreme Court's ruling that anti-abortion activists' "Wanted" ...   More

Rogue of the Week The list of malefactors branded with the scarlet "R" this week is too long to fit in this space, but it includes Portland General Electric, Republican lawmakers and that pesky neighbor who runs hi ...   More

News * Two former subjects of WW cover stories took opposite paths through the criminal-justice-system turnstiles last week. On Monday, Treva Throneberry, 34, was released from the Washington Correctio ...   More