Murmurs When voters approved a new taxing district for the Multnomah County Library last fall, they also crunched the City of Portland’s budget. That’s because the new taxing district squeezed out $10 m   More

Letters to the Editor Bullshit. I remember back in the ’80s when the number passed around with shock and dismay was 1 in 5, then 1 in 4, now 1 in 3! [“1 in 3,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013.] Hell, one of the charts in this s   More

Murmurs Move over, Baltimore: Portland has its own Tommy Carcetti. City Commissioner Nick Fish will make his film debut on HBO next month in American Winter, a documentary on Portland families struggling on t   More

News A rapist is in jail, but her fear still runs loose. by Anna Bjornberg In the winter of 1995, I was 16 and a high-school senior in Boise, Idaho. I was miserable in Boise and counting down the days    More

News Violent crime has dropped in Portland in the past decade, including assaults. But the percentage of assaults that involve domestic violence has decreased only slightly—from 48 percent in 2001, t   More

News Portland RisingPortland joins 1 billion women (and men) worldwide to march, dance and speak out against violence against women. Meet at Director Park for a flash mob of “Break the Chain.” At 3   More

Letters to the Editor When friends asked why I was so enthusiastic in my support of Charlie Hales, I said, “It’s time the adults were in charge” [“Return of Chucky,” WW, Jan. 30, 2013]. I thought I was speaki   More

Murmurs Flummoxed by the fluoridation fight? Fluoridation opponents are adding to the confusion. The campaign to pass city ballot Measure 26-151 in May, which would authorize fluoridating the drinking wat   More

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Murmurs The Portland Bureau of Transportation has spent $3.8 million in the past year—that’s 19 percent of all parking-meter revenues—to clean up TriMet’s transit mall, pay off the mall’s debt   More