Murmurs It’s rare for charitable groups to make political contributions—federal law discourages them from converting donations (deductible to the giver) into political cash. But a couple of local 50   More

News The US Department of Justice will announce this morning that it's found the Portland Police Bureau has engaged in a practice and pattern of using excessive force against people who have mental illness, and that the bureau has committed constitutional rights violations. At a Thursday morning press conference, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said the investigation foun...   More

Letters to the Editor Having read this article [“Who’s Listening to Diane Roark?,” WW, Sept. 5, 2012], I found it chilling. Not only by the account from Ms. Roark and how she had been targeted in such an outright   More

Rogue of the Week Ben Stein has gotten a lot of traction out of his turn as a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”). He’s since...   More

Murmurs Metro has said publicly that a new headquarters hotel at the Oregon Convention Center would get a $10.4 million cash subsidy from the regional government and the City of Portland. But documents    More

Letters to the Editor From the beginnings of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, I have wondered why its proponents thought the already existing, years-in-the-making, brilliantly successful black market in cannabis would    More

Murmurs One Portland politician isn’t softening his stance toward Walmart as the retail giant hires local software talent (“Value Shopping,” WW, Aug. 29, 2012). City Commissioner-elect Steve Novick says   More

Letters to the Editor I am an alumnus of Lewis & Clark Law School and a victim of child molestation [“Barred,” WW, Aug. 22, 2012]. What [Aaron L. Munter] did was horrible and he deserved to be punished. I am co   More

Murmurs Gov. John Kitzhaber keeps rolling the dice on Elisa Dozono. In May, WW reported that Kitzhaber submitted Portland lawyer Dozono’s name for a vacancy on the Oregon Lottery Commission, then withdrew i   More

Letters to the Editor I really enjoyed this article [“Buried Alive,” WW, Aug. 15, 2012]. I was in Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop and had a great time with the crew playing a traveling salesman who gets murde   More