News In the Burnside Bridgehead saga-the fight over a quarter-billion-dollar project to turn five blocks at the bridge's east end into a big mixed-use complex-Brad Malsin has vaulted from outsider to front ... More
Balance Beam
Questions ahead for Beam Development's Burnside Bridgehead proposal.
News In the Burnside Bridgehead saga-the fight over a quarter-billion-dollar project to turn five blocks at the bridge's east end into a big mixed-use complex-Brad Malsin has vaulted from outsider to front ... More
TOM POTTER
Portland's new boss talks earthquakes, the FBI and remaking the city.
Q & A Tom Potter took over as Portland's mayor just over three months ago. And, boy-he really took over.In a city with a rare "weak mayor" government, where power is usually split among the mayor and four C ... More
Mississippi Wi-Fi'ing
Grant cash will fund NoPo wireless wonderland.
News As many as 3,000 people who live on or around North Mississippi Avenue-as well as the flock of shops and restaurants crowding the North Portland strip-will get free wireless Internet this spring.The n ... More
Ranger Potter on Patrol
Danger! Hot spending decisions, coming through!
News Rookie Mayor Tom Potter hikes into a major political tinderbox this week, ax and bucket in hands, with his first budget proposal.With Potter and the City Council trying to divvy up dwindling cash, her ... More
The Ghosts of City Hall
Portland's budget battle focuses on a phantom menace.
News City Hall is haunted!Vanished officials and employees wander the corridors. The specter of an "office support specialist III" lingers, forever condemned to write reports mere mortals can't read. A pha ... More
1979
Special Section Live in a Doom TownPunk rock's PDX genesis.A musty old walkup on the lower Southwest side is packed with the cream of Oregon's New Wave elite, all dressed in the height of 1980s mondo bondage fashion: ... More
Homer's Odyssey
In The Simpsons, Portlander Matt Groening gave TV its best satire ever.
Special Section Parade to Distract Joyless Citizenry-front-page headline, The Springfield ShopperBart. Homer. Marge. Lisa. Dear, sweet Ned Flanders. "Diamond" Joe Quimby. Reverend Lovejoy. Vaudeville refugee Krusty t ... More
Clubbing Sam
Gresham joins uprising against Wal-Mart.
News Last Saturday, Southeast 182nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard, an unremarkable intersection home to a defunct QFC, became the frontline in a battle pitting Gresham neighbors against the world's biggest r ... More
The Odd Couple
The Leaders in Oregon's gay-wedding war are still at each other's throats. Ain't marriage grand?
Special Section Among the thousands of unions sealed last March and April after Multnomah County unleashed gay marriage, one is the ultimate example of a dysfunctional relationship.Roey Thorpe, leader of the gay acti ... More
Positively Fourth Street
Mayor Potter deals a high-stakes poker game with the city's budget.
News Maybe we've been watching too much Celebrity Poker Showdown. Or maybe we took Mayor Tom Potter too literally about his "new deal" at City Hall. Either way, the mayor's shake-up of the annual debate ov ... More
Top Articles from Zach Dundas
HOBBITS GONE WRONG
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
A few Oregonians' love for Lord of the Rings landed them in a strange saga of their own. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Portland writer Donald Miller is selling books, wowing fans-and fighting to shake up Christianity as we know it. Bean Town
Thanks to a gang of coffee fanatics, Portland is the center of a new microbrew revolution. Portland's New New Economy
High unemployment. More businesses. Lower income. More newcomers. It ain't business as usual. Garden of Weedin'
Oregon's medical marijuana growers want to win respect, help the sick...and grow the kindest bud on the planet. ATTACK OF THE $3 TOMATO
How Portland's snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along. THE REBEL ALLIANCE
An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution. Return of the Piper
CAN PORTLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAD BOY SAVE PRO WRESTLING FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE? SPACE INVADER
Phantom Dialer, computer hacker The Portland Adult Soapbox Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
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