News across Greater Portland
Good Morning, News: Mayor Campaigns Against Progressives, Cyclists Protest Moda Deal, and Trump Uses YOUR Money to Spread Hate
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Letter: ‘The choice is clear … re-elect Rep. John Ley!’
Amboy's Thomas Schenk backs Rep. John Ley over challenger Deken Letnich in the 18th District, Position 2 race.
Letter: Count the rent, not just the tents
Teso argues rents and vacancy rates predict homelessness better than drug use, mental illness, or poverty.
Spin Cycle: Feel the Pain
It can be tough to focus on new music releases when you’re mired in the hell of aches and pains. I’m lucky to have been almost entirely free from it the vast majority of my adult life, but as I descend into the dreaded middle age (gagged a little bit writing that), the looming…
Opinion: Clark County Today celebrates 10th anniversary with redesign
Clark County Today marks its 10th anniversary with a rebuilt website launching Sunday, celebrating its Sept. 27 anniversary.
Opinion: Clark County Today celebrates 10th anniversary with redesign
Clark County Today marks its 10th anniversary with a rebuilt website launching Sunday, celebrating its Sept. 27 anniversary.
Biding His Primetime: Robert Pattinson Attains Peak Weird Guy Form
“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” Robert Pattinson asks this question throughout Primetime. In the role of Chris Hansen—the indeterminately telegenic host of once-popular hidden camera show To Catch A Predator—Pattinson practically turns the question into a mantra.…
Letter: ‘John Braun works to protect jobs, grow agricultural trade, cut government waste, and expand energy production to fuel our future’
Letter writer Margaret Tweet contrasts John Braun's business record and Navy background with her scrutiny of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's voting history and name discrepancies.
POP QUIZ PDX: It’s a SCANDAL! 😲
CALLING ALL BRAINIACS! It’s time to put that brainy-brain to the test with this edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we’ll see how much YOU know about the latest local political scandals—because as you know, Portland has nothing better to do…
Good Morning, News: Portland Mayor Breaks Tie Vote for Zenith, Introducing Our Citywide Dolly Parton Day, and Other Such Glitter That Is Gold
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Romancing Portland Taught Me How to Embrace Writing Smut
I’m reading smut at lunch. Facing a cement wall in the parking lot, I comb an explicit love scene between bites of cottage cheese. Within the pages, Hades and Persephone are in his sex dungeon doing something I’d usually open an incognito tab for. He flips her this way. He flips…
US Senate Republicans spotlight trans athletes issue as midterms approach
Senate Republicans held a Judiciary Committee hearing on trans athletes in women's sports less than six weeks before midterm elections.