News The signs are all over buses, banners and billboards: A shot of a smiling, silver-maned man, next to a guitar or skateboard and the words “Free Event. Portland CityFest. Luis Palau. Waterfront P ... More
Take Me to the River
Bring your own Bible: Party in Portland this weekend with evangelicals.
News The signs are all over buses, banners and billboards: A shot of a smiling, silver-maned man, next to a guitar or skateboard and the words “Free Event. Portland CityFest. Luis Palau. Waterfront P ... More
Red-Hot Tax Credits
The benefits of Multnomah County’s solar deal also shine on private investors.
News When the book is written on how America woke up to the threat of global warming, it will need a big chapter about the tax lawyers and CPAs who profited from the awakening. The impetus to invest in ren ... More
An Apple A Day
A proposal to insure Portland public-school students has a shaky diagnosis.
News In Portland—where voters supported a 2007 state tobacco tax increase to cover children’s health insurance—you might think children’s advocates would unite behind a new proposal ... More
Summer in the City
Onward to Portland, Christian soldiers.
News Beaverton-based global evangelist Luis Palau is ready to launch thousands of Christians on volunteer missions this summer to fight homelessness, hunger and blight in the Portland area. Last weekend, a ... More
Pillow Fight
Portland Hilton’s union workers push a boycott of their own hotel.
News A union campaign urging a boycott of the Hilton Portland&Executive Tower hotel is starting to have some impact. The union counts at least 275 Hilton workers as members of Portland-based UNITE HERE Loc ... More
Driving is Lazy
It’s International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 3. So why ARE SO MANY portland PARENTS still driving?
News Jacqueline Villnave had a tough first year at Sunnyside Environmental School. As an organizer with the city’s Safer Routes to School program, Villnave’s job is to advance the options of wa ... More
Special Delivery
Troutdale may give FedEx $4 million to do what it was going to do anyway.
News Oregon will give one of America’s richest corporations a $4 million tax break if it relocates its regional hub on Swan Island to an east Multnomah County suburb. Under the plan, FedEx, which la ... More
Clash Of The Titans
Can Qwest really be the good guy when it comes to lower cable TV rates?
News Cable giant Comcast is about to find out what real competition looks like in the Portland metro area. And that may mean customers are about to experience a new phenomenon—lower bills. Starting ... More
Sitting Ducks
Employee safety complaints mount against an ATM service company.
News In spring 2006, Kurt Page got a $12-an-hour job at an armored car company in Oregon. Page thought it might be glamorous work—uniform, gun, hopping out of an armored car and scanning the perimet ... More
Sunday School
Reading, writing...and, on Sunday, religion in Portland Public Schools.
News If you thought prayer was banned in schools, think again—at least on Sundays. At least eight religious groups rent Portland Public Schools facilities on a weekly basis, bringing in nearly $170, ... More
Top Articles from Don Mcintosh
Not A Pretty Picture
A big developer crosses brushes with with 68-year-old decorator. Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr. Driving is Lazy
It’s International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 3. So why ARE SO MANY portland PARENTS still driving? Sitting Ducks
Employee safety complaints mount against an ATM service company. Paper or Plastic?
Sam Adams is becoming Portland's bag man. Pillow Fight
Portland Hilton’s union workers push a boycott of their own hotel. Holy Alliance!
Conservative churches may make common cause with liberal Portland pols. Laboring To Birth A New Party
Oregon union leaders working to create a third political party. Take Me to the River
Bring your own Bible: Party in Portland this weekend with evangelicals. Party On
The new Working Families Party promises to shake up Oregon's elections.
A big developer crosses brushes with with 68-year-old decorator. Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr. Driving is Lazy
It’s International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 3. So why ARE SO MANY portland PARENTS still driving? Sitting Ducks
Employee safety complaints mount against an ATM service company. Paper or Plastic?
Sam Adams is becoming Portland's bag man. Pillow Fight
Portland Hilton’s union workers push a boycott of their own hotel. Holy Alliance!
Conservative churches may make common cause with liberal Portland pols. Laboring To Birth A New Party
Oregon union leaders working to create a third political party. Take Me to the River
Bring your own Bible: Party in Portland this weekend with evangelicals. Party On
The new Working Families Party promises to shake up Oregon's elections.
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