Is the City of Portland being run by vicious, petty, vindictive people? Here's somebody who thinks so, based on personal experience.

Hecklevsion was a total blast when we did it a few weeks ago, so guess what? WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN. Oh yes. Hecklevision: Commando. Saturday February 25, 2012. 7:3

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Keep your eyes peeled.(Photos: PPB) Portland Police are offering a $1,000 reward to help them find a pickup truck that was involved in a fatal hit-and-run on Saturday night. The driver of the truck struck 26-year old Jason Grant from Vancouver as he attempted to walk across SE Foster Road near 70th (he wasn't in a marked [

GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I can't play my music (They say my music's too loud)—I kept talkin' about it (I got the big run around). LET'S GO TO PRESS. WORST NEWS EVER: Don Cornelius, the founder and host of the best dance sho

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This summer, DC Entertainment will publish all-new stories expanding on the acclaimed Watchmen universe. As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original Watchmen, the bestselling graphic novel of all time. Before Watchmen will be the

EFF: One Way or Another, We're Getting That Megaupload Data Back: The EFF has joined forces with one of the companies from which Megaupload rented server space to try and figure out the best way forward for users whose content was not i

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I’ve been consolidating my many web presences that have developed over the years. In particular I want to raise the visibility of my current professional identity, as it appears on Google Plus and at my professional site (Applied Information Design LLC.) I love my Portland Ground photography project, a wonderful midli

If you infrequently chase Steelhead with a two handed (Spey) rod then you may not totally understand all the talk about Skagit’s, Scandi’s, Shoot Heads, T this & that. Also, different manufacturers put their own labels to the same basic designs their competitors have so the nomenclature becomes further mixed

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(Photo by Steve Rawley) And now, in the category of “ya gotta send a letter to get a letter”: Here is my project for February. Why should kids be the only ones to exchange Valentines? ;) smooches, nancy

Bill Simmons of Grantland.com picks up the Portland Trail Blazers trading for Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash idea again... ---------------------------- But what if the Bla

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Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius, 75, at his Mulholland Drive home at around 4 a.m., police said.

The good folks at Portland's own Cravedog have designed a t-shirt especially for Blazersedge. We haven't had a shirt in a while and it was cool to have it done by a group of experts! You can see the design right after the jump. EXCEPT...the shirt isn't finished yet.

Call us crazy, but we have a theory: Willamette Week really, really doesn't want Eileen Brady to be the next mayor of Portland. We're not sure why that is, but whatever the motive, the Wednesday wonders are pounding on Brady relentlessly, pausing only for the latest

“Footnotes are portals to information that’s tangential to the text, offers technical details, provides a caveat to the main point, or otherwise takes a deep dive into details that are primarily of interest to a narrow sliver of the audience. They are paths to relatively obscure information, not the main event. Like foo

The 47-year-old was arrested Jan. 20 after a dispute with a woman and charged with recklessly endangering another person, interfering with making a police report, criminal mischief and harassment.

I somehow became mayor by just checking in when I voted. Clearly I’m going to have to stop by the auditor’s office daily for coffee and Chit-chat about hanging chads to win this back…

Dark beer fans, check out Lompoc's Black Out Party tonight at the Sidebar: nothing but dark beers...I may have to sneak over to the 5Q side for my C-Note...

Winehouse's relatives said they were still absorbing the implications of the news that Suzanne Greenaway's qualifications have been questioned.

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I’m happy to let you know that we have been able to extend the deadline a great bundle deal. Until March 1, 2012, when you purchase or upgrade Suitcase Fusion 3 for Macintosh, we will also throw in the font identification tool FontGenius. FontGenius identifies unknown fonts quickly – locating new fonts for your

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Question from Shaneka January 31, 2012 at 11:36am Richard, Why is incomtax being heldback this year and how long cause I have 3 kids and I can't afford this u can take tax out but can't pay it back that...

Let’s all go shopping Last year, when Eileen Brady declared her intent to run for Portland Mayor, I started trying to draw attention to her and her husband’s anti-labor past with Nature’s fresh Northwest and its successor, New Seasons Market. Portland’s non-union (and often anti-union) media missed t

Funny thing. Here it is a Presidential election year, and all of a sudden (a) the official unemployment numbers are down, and (b) there's talk of an imminent strike on Iran, by Israelis armed with weapons, if not aided by soldiers, from the United States. Oh, and watch out for Iranian "terists" here in the "homeland" -- t

Portland’s main airport on Swan Island was only open a few years before it became obvious that the site offered little expansion room. The year after this 1935 photo, land was purchased along the Columbia River for a new airport. That airport, today’s PDX, opened in 1940, leaving Swan Island open for industrial

We've been leafing through the City of Portland annual financial statements that have just come on line, and we've adjusted the unfunded pension figure on our debt clock (see left sidebar) in light of our findings. As best we can compute, the city'

Every year, close to 2 million people are diagnosed with diabetes. But how many of those are accomplished chefs?

Some readers might think that it's all fun and games here in Edgeland. Not so fast, Bucko. Try figuring out these brain busters, and then talk to us:

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation's latest grant awards includes $6.6 million to Northwest nonprofits with $510,000 going to Oregon-based institutions.

We honor the best new media short films from a variety of emerging genres and formats like B

Super Bowl Sunday is American's biggest [mostly] secular holiday. And it's happening this Sunday, February 5, 2012. But what about those of us who cannot tolerate American-football?

A disappointing first season prompts Cowell to get rid of two judges and his show's announcer.

Representative Julie Parrish targets $50 Million in savings  Taxpayer Association lawmaker profile Rep. Julie Parrish (R-West Linn) will introduce legislation (HB 4106) during the February session that would place a moratorium on all non-essential government spending, such as advertising and …

At some point in 2010 I realized that with my Multnomah County library card I had access to The Oregonian Historical Archive, amongst other research databases and sites. That realization gave me the bright idea to write a “Day in History” post for every day in 2011.

Huge Price Drops for Tablets, TVs, Travel & Super Bowl Tickets. By Oregon Small Business Association While the cost of essential items like gas and food will continue to rise, analysts predict that current economic trends favor lower prices on tablets, televisions, and travel in 2012. Big screen TVs If the past few year

Press Release by Rep. Shawn Lindsey, Bill co-sponsored by Rep. Bentz, Eyre, Buckley, Esquivel, Gelser, Huffman, Hunt, Kennemer, Sheehan, Sprenger, Weidner, Wingard, & Witt; and Senators Devlin, Girod, Monnes Anderson, Olsen, and Verger. A bipartisan group of legislators have introduced legislation making it a crime for

by Erika Weisensee Milwaukie mom & writer In the 2008 movie “27 Dresses,” Kathryn Heigl’s character Jane is “always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” She has kept all of those dresses, and in a memorable scene, she tries them all on. Some are hideous and some are just hilarious. I, too, have be

Oregon takes action to stop new plant disease By Oregon Dept. of Agriculture Boxwood blight, a fungal plant disease new to North America, has been detected in Oregon for the first time, prompting state officials to take measures to eradicate it. However, unlike the pathogen that causes sudden oak death, the newly-reported d