Portland's rep is growing as a place with nurturing soil for small-house snazzy designers – of clothes, furnishings, jewelry, urban spaces. An item on ULTRA, the city's heard-it-here-first design Web...
Having never fully recovered from a strike seven years ago, the state's biggest newspaper is entering a period of critical labor negotiations. The company plans to outsource Teamsters jobs, and the...
Nah, Howard, your Starbucks isn't a "victim" of its success, it's just feeling the downside of inevitable maturity. America's bad-boy, break-out, Maxwell-House-whuppin' coffee is – middle aged. That's...
When in Seattle, I peruse Real Change; in Portland I keep up with Street Roots. Both newspapers, of course, are by and for homeless folks, and they regularly serve up readable news not found elsewhere...
Never one to let his sense of charity get in the way of his competitive spirit, our correspondent matches another UW donor's efforts to call the shots on campus.
