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And in the message transcripts themselves, you feel how the new councilors banter, talk shit, strategize and learn the ...

The “OG SantaCon” that’s was listed in your Dec. 17 Get Busy section is not the Portland SantaCon that was started in 1996 by ...

Critics of city and county policy say Portland and Multnomah County have become a doughnut-hole-like dead zone in the middle ...

A group of striking medical workers rejected a tentative labor agreement with Legacy Health, their union announced Saturday.

To end 2025, we assigned each reporter in the WW newsroom to pick two stories by a colleague that stood out in 2025. We then ...

A coalition of business interests and Oregon cities are moving toward the November 2026 ballot with an initiative that would allow cities to broadly criminalize homeless camping.

The most common question we receive from readers is some variation of “Why is this a story?” What follows is an answer to ...

Anthony Effinger writes about the intersection of government, business and non-profit organizations for Willamette Week. A ...

For Christmas she wears blinking lights or a Santa Claus outfit. For New Year’s she dumps glitter in her hair and dons a ...

This story first appeared in the Dec. 13, 2005, edition of WW.

Oh, plenty of people know why we’re required to open those shades on takeoff and landing—the problem is that all their ...