Who Let The Dogs In?

Service animals are a big bone of contention in Grocery Stores.

News Taylor Nussbaum has a bone to pick with the Pearl District Safeway on Northwest Lovejoy Street. Nussbaum, who lives in the Pearl District, describes herself as “appalled” to find shoppers ... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Megan Brescini

Give a Dollar, Get a Good Deed

News

Ben Emrich wants to do good, for a price. He is a 30-year-old senior at Concordia University, studying education. And like many students, he's having a hard time making ends meet. So he's schemed up a way to make some money that will help cover what his student loans can not... More

Thursday, June 11, 2009 by Megan Brescini

Hey, Neighbor!

News var map; function initialize() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(45.523875,-122.6703 ... More

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Megan Brescini

Hey, Neighbor!

News var map; function initialize() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(45.523875,-122.670399), 10); ... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Megan Brescini

Celeste Vs. Katrina

Catching up with a hurricane survivor who got blown back to Portland.

News Celeste Calvin last spoke with WW in 2005 following her return to Portland after fleeing Hurricane Katrina (see “Treading Water,” WW, Sept. 14, 2005). Calvin was a week into her senior ye ... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Megan Brescini

More Help for More Homeless

News
I have some good news, and some bad news. Lets start with the good:

Street Roots, a nonprofit newspaper that helps those living with homelessness and poverty, has launched an easy-to-use More

Friday, May 29, 2009 by Megan Brescini

Hey, Neighbor!

News .title {font-size:1.2em;font-weight:bold;display:inline} .address{display:none;} NORTH: Shots Fired A man was shot in his apartment in the 900 block of North Ainsworth Street ... More

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Megan Brescini

Fear Factor

I dissented at this event on dissent, and all i got were these crummy pictures.

News The organizer of Liberating Dissent II, Anthony Patch, is onstage trying to read his introduction in the dim lighting and distracting shuffle of about 80 people. The mostly punk crowd is waiting for t ... More

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Megan Brescini

One Senator Just Says No to Smoking Candy

News

Do not be alarmed, Portland, this is only a test. Along with Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, we are a test market for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco's latest attempt to cash in on the smokeless tobacco sales boom, as WW reported last week.

This isn't tobacco you chew and spit though. No, no no, the Camel Orb's are candy. ... More

Friday, May 22, 2009 by Megan Brescini

Hey, Neighbor!

News var map; function initialize() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(45.523875,-122.670399), 10); ... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Megan Brescini