Food Reviews & Stories Most shelves at the Made in Oregon store are stocked with the obvious: Jams made from native berries, our famous wines and cheeses, the blankets our pioneers traded to indigenous people before s More
Yellow Bellies
Which local mustards pass muster?
Food Reviews & Stories Most shelves at the Made in Oregon store are stocked with the obvious: Jams made from native berries, our famous wines and cheeses, the blankets our pioneers traded to indigenous people before s More
Ries Above
Testing 11 grocery-store-bought Oregon rieslings.
Drank Oregon rieslings are not like German rieslings. Grown in the cool climates along the Rhine river, traditional German rieslings are sweet and fruity. Though the Willamette Valley is also known fo More
Beer Guide 2013: Out and About
Favorite breweries from across Oregon.
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Beer Guide 2013 The Coast Astoria: In 1985, Chunk and Mikey stole our heart. In 2006, Fort George Brewery (1483 Duane St., Astoria, fortgeorgebrewery.com) came for a piece of our liver. Fort George’s Vortex IPA More
Obama Offers Semi-Terrifying Chart of What Oregon Could Lose in the Sequester
News Another week, another budget standoff. This time, it's the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts if President Barack Obama can't make a deal with Congress by March 1.Who cares? you say. I only worry about things that affect me and my fellow Oregonians.The president has anticipated your reaction. In fact, the White House has produced a strategically terrifying breakdown of how sequestration ... More
Puff, Puff
What will it take for Oregon to finally pass legal marijuana?
Featured Stories “One reason Measure 80 didn’t pass in Oregon is that the big boys back East who put money into campaigns—Peter Lewis and George Soros—the organizations they help fund aren’t particularly More
A Question of Force
Experts on sexual violence against women speculate why Oregon’s numbers are so high.
News Last week, WW published an issue devoted to V-Day, an international campaign set for Feb. 14 to draw attention to violence against women. Some of the numbers were surprising: 27 percent of Oregon More
The Violence Persists
Fewer reports, but still a big problem.
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
Talking With the Enemy
In an unprecedented Oregon program, domestic-violence victims ask questions of abusers.
News Hope Vanderhoof for eight years put up with being hit in the head and kicked with steel-toed boots by her boyfriend. She finally ended the relationship in 2005, when he tried to kill her by settin More
Driving to Drink
A new liquor sales law in Washington is sending hordes of booze buyers into Oregon.
News For years now, the embattled Oregon Liquor Control Commission has been fighting powerful lobbyists for grocery store chains that want to end the state’s nearly 80-year monopoly on selling booze. More
A Sales Tax, Anybody?
Lawmakers are about to start debating a shakeup of the state’s tax system—and an unpopular idea leads the list.
News In the history of Oregon politics, there are few things voters have hated more than a sales tax. But when voters... More
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