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Oregon

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Dawgs Defeat Ducks, Manage Miracle and Make NIT Exciting

    The arena was packed, the pep band blaring, the fans screaming, and the players competing like a trip to the Final Four was on the line. In reality, the only thing riding on the outcome of the game was Pacific Northwest basketball bragging rights, and a trip to New York to play in the semifinals of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Bob Caldwell Goes Out with a Bang!

    The Funny Pages The state to our south is quivering at the mouth over an Oregonian newsman's untimely demise, all of this in the midst of marital lies. And boy, it came as quite a surprise when he came and went without a goodbye. Everyone knew that the cover story blew. So the papers now show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    David Fennell, Once Suspended Lawyer with Foreclosure Trustee, Now Accused of Over-Billing

    As if the foreclosure crisis hadn't generated enough distrust of the real estate industry, now comes another scandal. A complaint filed with the Oregon State Bar accuses an executive of Bellevue-based Northwest Trustee Services--a huge operation that has implemented a quarter million foreclosures- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Oregon Governor Bans Death Penalty: 'It Is a Perversion of Justice'

    Saying that capital punishment is "morally wrong," Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber effectively banned the death penalty in his state, two weeks before the state was set to execute its first inmate in 14 years.

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Oregon Cheese Guild to Create Statewide Cheese Trail

    ​Oregon cheesemakers are hoping a new grant will allow them to replicate the successes of the state's craft beer and wine industries. The Oregon Cheese Guild this week received $50,400 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and promote a statewide cheese trail linking dairies, res ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Ore-Gone Crazy

    Our neighbor's twisted logic when it comes to kids and marijuana.

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Oregon Prosecutors Promise Medical Marijuana Crackdown, For the Kids' Sake

    Image source​The top federal prosecutor in Oregon and 33 of the state's district attorneys announced last week that they are going to put an end to prescription pot sales. The authorities say that although Oregon currently has nearly 40,000 people enrolled in its voter-approved medical marijua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Oregon Demands That Farmers Man Up and Start Killing Wild Pigs

    ​Invasive wild pigs are a big problem. They destroy crops, chase out native species, and are generally unpleasant to be around. Oregon passed a law last year requiring farmers to shoot or trap wild pigs on sight (or at least let someone else kill or trap them). But the state is thus far unsati ... More >>

  • Film

    April 6, 2011

    Empty Quarter: Exploring Rural Oregon

    ​Invasive wild pigs are a big problem. They destroy crops, chase out native species, and are generally unpleasant to be around. Oregon passed a law last year requiring farmers to shoot or trap wild pigs on sight (or at least let someone else kill or trap them). But the state is thus far unsati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Oregon's Piers T. Baker Gets 10 Years in Prison for Growing Weed in National Forest, Running Over Ranger Who Caught Him

    Image via Multnomah County Sheriff's Office​All right, pot farmers: National forests, with their rugged and isolated terrain, might seem like perfect places to raise your crops. And since they are technically public property, you can even make the argument that an enterprising citizen ought to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Have Mexican Drug Cartels Taken Over the Meth Market in Oregon?

    ​On Friday, sheriffs in Salem, Oregon, raided a a house located just three doors down from an elementary school. They discovered more than five pounds of meth in the home, inhabited by Jose Alfredo Mendoza-Ruiz and Mariela Davila-Saucedo. On March 17, Oregon State Police stopped an Acura on I- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Erik Bjorn Hamlet, Oregon Hockey Coach, Makes Pit Stop on Way to Washington Game to Mail 20 Pounds of Weed

    ​Erik Bjorn Hamlet is a busy guy. Besides whatever normal job he has, he also coaches the 16-to-20-year-olds on the southern Oregon Spartan hockey team and is an aspiring marijuana distributor--or so say the cops. Being such a busy guy, he doesn't always have time to stop by the post office an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Drone Aircraft, Homemade Rockets and Hang Gliders Compete For Oregon Airspace. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Image via​What does central Oregon have in common with the tribal areas of Pakistan? Drug cultivation, religious nuts and a rugged, mountainous landscape aside, both places are abuzz (or may be soon) with drone aircraft prowling the skies. And just like the Pakistanis, the locals are up in arm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Child Pornography Viewing Ruled OK By Oregon Supreme Court; Wouldn't Fly in Washington

    ​You can look at all the online kiddie porn you want--ruled the Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday--just so long as you don't download it, pay for it, print it, or share it. But before any of you local pervs get excited, here in Washington we got laws against that shit.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    The World's Most Honest Job Advertisement

    ​If you're a reporter at the Illinois Valley News in southern Oregon, you can certainly accuse your bosses of making you work a lot of hours for not a lot of money. What you can't do, however, is claim that they didn't warn you.

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Crab Recall Affects Washington State

    That thing looks pretty mean even without the Listeria monocytogenes...​Since we've already spent a good chunk of time today discussing one of Seattle's big food obsessions (salmon, and the possible release to market of genetically engineered salmon which will someday rise up and enslave us al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Portland Police Respond to Report of Armed Man...in Gun Store

    ​The caller told police that the armed man standing outside the Portland shop looked "nervous and sweaty." Officers were called, assault rifles drawn and a perimeter established until someone realized that, hey, that shop we've got surrounded? It's called the Gun Room. And that suspicious dude ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    An Inmate Who Rehabs Frogs Rehabs Himself

    ​Onetime Walla Walla state pen warden Bobby Rhay liked to say that, while every inmate wasn't bad, most of them "aren't in here for pushing ducks into water." He meant they were not nice people. But yesterday the state Department of Corrections announced that some of its inmates have been push ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    The Seattle Times Uses Fuzzy Math to Trash I-1098

    ​The Seattle Times editorial board (pictured in the artist's rendering at right) doesn't like taxes. This we know. What we didn't know before Tuesday, however, was that the Times would be willing to deceive its own readers in order to prove a point. Here's what I'm talking about.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Seattle Blogs: Washington Is No Oregon When It Comes to Bridging a Budget Gap

    Oregon's not afraid to steal a feather from this man's cap.​Seattle's blogosphere often has a case of the Monday's, but never calls in sick. - SunBreak takes a look at how our neighbors to the south have handled a similar budget crisis and finds one key difference: Not only are Oregon voters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Oregon Is Stealing Washington's People

    According to the odds, this woman is most likely headed from Detroit to D.C.​Every year, the moving company United releases its "migration" study showing who's packing up and where they're heading. (Warning: PDF) As you might expect, this year the Great Lakes, what with their dying industries ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Want to Be Finding Truffles, Ergo Need Dog

    ​If you don't have a dog, kidnap someone else's and bring that dog down to hunt in Oregon, just for the weekend of January 29-30th. Hunt truffles, that is. Black and white gold. French umami. Foodie crack. The truffle dog training seminar happening during the Oregon Truffle Festival is sold ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    We're No. 36! Washington Narrowly Beats DC in National Happiness Ranking

    What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Abuse Victims' Lawyer Isn't Just Targeting Assets of Oregon Jesuits; He's Going After Rome

    An old boarding schools for Tulalip Indians​The claims are in. According to a tally released yesterday, a total of 505 people met the Nov. 30 deadline set by a federal judge to lodge allegations of abuse against the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province. The case is the largest abuse proceeding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Good News: Washington Not as Dysfunctional as Oregon, California

    Thank you, Oregon girls. Without you we'd be even more depressed.​Whether it's that our banks are failing at the highest rate in the nation or that they're giving loans to O.J. Simpson, Washington has had no shortage of bad economic news lately. In other words: thank goodness for Oregon. Beca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Oregon Fan Wants Real Live Duck for Mascot

    Nothing says intimidation like...a mallard.​Certain college football teams have a tradition of using live animals as mascots. LSU has Mike, a caged tiger that sits on the sidelines during home games. Colorado has Ralphie, a buffalo "released" onto the field before kickoff with the help of deni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    We're Fatter Than CO, Drunker Than UT

    We love statistics and maps, and thanks to Jezebel.com for linking up a few stat-maps. Above, shocking evidence that Coloradans are fitter than those of us in the exercise-obsessed Evergreen State. But at lest we're not so bad as those lard-asses in the Midwest and South. One reason for this, after ... More >>

  • Food

    April 29, 2009

    Search & Distill: In Search of an Honest Pint

    Oregon’s legislature just might do something about those oft-stolen two ounces.

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    De-Nesting Cuckoo

    Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Oregon Reveals The Dilemmas of Dying

    In the more than a decade since the Death with Dignity law was enacted in Oregon, several researchers have studied its effect intensively by interviewing people who want to kill themselves as well as their doctors and families. Oregon doctors Linda Ganzini and Susan Tolle have led the way in this re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Oregon Governor Asks For Tax Increases And Health Care Expansions, And Sky Doesn't Fall

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2008

    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2008

    Mycological Maynia

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2008

    Mushroom Mania

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Redhook Chugs Widmer

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Food

    February 21, 2007

    Cave Match

    Kulongoski looks a little like Donald Rumsfeld, but seems a lot nicer. So it can be done. Facing a recession and a budget shortfall, just like his neighbor to the North, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski opened the legislative session by asking for $2 billion in revenue increases to fund expansions i ... More >>

  • Food

    January 17, 2007

    Poco Wine Room

    The "room" has two stories, but it's cozy and chic, and the happy hour discounts make the glasses of wine even more attractive.

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    The Culture of Death

    And why we need to cultivate it.

  • Food

    July 13, 2005

    Local Brilliance

    And why we need to cultivate it.

  • News

    February 16, 2005

    The Fab Four

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • Food

    November 17, 2004

    Down South

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • Food

    December 17, 2003

    Local Bubbles

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • Food

    November 19, 2003

    Bettering Burgundy

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • Food

    June 11, 2003

    Old Is Good

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • Food

    January 1, 2003

    The Seekers

    A willful grape meets its match in Yamhill County, Oregon's winemakers.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Wine for the Holidays

    Oregon's delicate pinot noirs fit well with holiday viands.

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    Cutting the Giff

    Activists prepare to fight timber harvests in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

  • Food

    November 7, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Bigotry as law

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • News

    August 18, 1999

    Aryan Northwest

    The region's Nazi problem is rooted in our history.

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