News The saga of the "Portland Riders," a youth gang accused of assaulting pedestrians and downtown cyclists, has captured the imagination of a city. With a taste for "wilding," the youths--clad in red and ... More
Leader of the Pack?
A prominent homeless advocate has ties to a gang that preys on the down-and-out.
News The saga of the "Portland Riders," a youth gang accused of assaulting pedestrians and downtown cyclists, has captured the imagination of a city. With a taste for "wilding," the youths--clad in red and ... More
The Potter Files
Digging for dirt on Portland's Mr. Clean.
News To Whom It May Concern: 9-22-04What follows is the requested background investigation of Tom Potter on behalf of an Unidentified Third Party. The report is based on interviews, public document searche ... More
Cop Watchdog Bares Its Teeth
Report finds city ignores some of the most serious brutality complaints against cops.
News According to a report released Tuesday, the Portland Police Bureau has failed to look into more than 100 recent misconduct allegations against cops --generally, the most serious and credible ones. Why ... More
Cop Shop Crackdown
Portland may set a record in cops fired this year.
News This Tuesday news broke that complaints alleging misconduct by Portland police officers are going up. But the flip side did not make headlines: Portland cops are being fired this year at a rate unprec ... More
PISSING (ON) BLUE
Francesconi's misleading ad could backfire.
News Mayoral candidate Jim Francesconi's new strategy of going negative on his opponent, former Police Chief Tom Potter, has the Portland Police Association rethinking its endorsement of Francesconi earlie ... More
Fuel Facts
THE CRUDE TRUTH ABOUT GAS GOUGING
News LAST WEEK, even as the price of a barrel of crude oil hit historic highs on the world market, here in Portland several gas stations lowered the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded.Confused? We don't ... More
Fitting a (Racial) Profile
Derrick Foxworth could take a lesson from George Bush.
News Last week, the family of James Jahar Perez, who was shot to death by a Portland police officer in March, sued the city, saying his death stemmed from an unconstitutional policy of making traffic stops ... More
The Phone-Card Rebellion
Boycott lands 17 inmates in segregation.
News An inmate boycott at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem has landed more than a dozen participants in disciplinary trouble.Residents of Oregon's oldest prison recently received a debit card letting ... More
Cop Shop Makeover
Chief Derrick Foxworth has quietly been diversifying the Police Bureau.
News Last week, city commissioner/mayoral candidate Jim Francesconi attacked Portland's cop shop for its lack of progress in increasing diversity and demanded a report within 60 days on plans to change tha ... More
Leftward, Ho!
Jim Francesconi re-casts his mayoral bid.
News As Portlanders enter the second act of the mayor's-race drama, City Commissioner Jim Francesconi is trying to reintroduce himself to voters in a new light--one that shines from stage left.Last week, f ... More
Top Articles from Nick Budnick
Leif's Auto Body Experience
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
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