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Former House Rep. Derrick Kitts is mulling a run in Oregon's reliably Republican 26th House District, according to the NW Republican.

But don't call it a comeback—Kitts doesn't even live...   More

News Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden presided over a raucous town hall meeting Tuesday on the Iraq War, trying to placate about 300 people whose anger targeted Wyden and his fellow Democrats in the congressional maj ...   More

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Jeff Merkley's candidacy for U.S. Senate got a big boost from Gov. Ted Kulongoski and former Gov. Barbara Roberts, who joined forces today to urge voters to support Oregon's House Speaker in the Democratic primary to unseat Sen. Gordon Smith.

"Jeff Merkley has always made us pro...   More

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Last Friday, Fresh Del Monte Produce settled with Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality for allowing food waste from its St. Johns plant to run-off into Columbia Slough, to the tune of $6,487.

As reported on WWire, Fresh...   More

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OK, it was no "Battle of Seattle." Thousands of people didn't take to the streets, nothing got smashed, and no one was sprayed with tear gas by police.

But yesterday's protest in downtown Portland against President Bush's ...   More

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It looks like Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality beat U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the punch at Fresh Del Monte.

On June 6, less than a week before the feds' June 12 immigration raid, DEQ stuck Del ...   More

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WW's resident cartoonist, John Callahan, has a worldview and drawing style all his own. And while we love Callahan, sometimes even we WWers find his work as inscrutable as city charter reform, or the exact location of Portland's urban g...   More

News No longer do Portlanders have to fight for their right to potty. Last Thursday at 11 pm, the doors of City Hall opened to Portland's late-night peeing public in a bid to keep stranded club-hoppers an ...   More

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Give us your drunk, your homeless, your completely lost tourists of Portland, yearning to leak for free.

At exactly 11 pm Thursday night, the shiny taps and blindingly white porcelain thrones of City Hall opened up to the public.

Hoping to snag a customer rushing to relie...   More

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Oregon's four Democratic House members are backing a resolution to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The resolution introduced today by Rep. Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat and former prosecutor, is short and to the point. It accuses Gonzales of "high crimes and misdem...   More