We're fascinated by the timeline of Oregon attorney general John Kroger's latest career move -- out of public office and into the cushy president's chair at Reed College. According to a Reed spokesman quoted by the O yesterday, the transition was put i... »
The ballots will be here within the week, and so it's time to name our picks in the May primary. We're registered D for this one. In the races that are contested, here are our choices: Oregon attorney general. We were leaning toward Dwight Holton on th... »
We're floored by the news that Oregon attorney general John Kroger is going to be the next president of Reed College. Whatever happened to the mystery illness that made him too sick to run for re-election? And so he lands on stepping stone no. 3 of his... »
Our sympathies go out to the people who live on Kelly Avenue near the Ross Island Bridge in the Lair Hill neighborhood of southwest Portland. Once upon a time, it must have been a nice little residential street, but for many decades now it's been nothi... »
Maybe this is nothing, but it sure seems curious to us that the nuclear reactor at Reed College is now making its requests to possess nuclear fuel by telephone. It's as if they were ordering takeout kung pao. »
Opponents of public spending on a streetcar and other handouts to the Portland developers seeking to slap up some housing bunkers on the east side of Lake Oswego scored a big victory when they tipped the current City Council away from the proposed stre... »
This just in from Reed College: "Portland needs a new orchestra hall and opera house." Do you think Charlie Hales, art enthusiast, will build it (or is it them) for us? Maybe he'll have the water bureau do it. »
