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WA pays state workers millions to do nothing
MsNBC.com Pdxguide.com
Feb 07A five-month investigation by the KING 5 Investigators reveals taxpayers have paid more than $17 million to state workers on home assignment since 2006. »
Portland No. 18 in private-sector jobs gain
Latest News From Portland Business Journal
Feb 07Portland's private sector added 13,000 new jobs in 2011, bringing total sector employment to 830,700. According to an On Numbers analysis compiled by the Business Journal, that ranked Portland No. 18 among the nation's largest 100 metro areas. The city... »
Thunder 111, Blazers 107: Jason Quick on Portland's woes (video)
Oregon Sports
Feb 07The Oregonian's Jason Quick on what went wrong for the Blazers -- LaMarcus' block/goaltending call, rebounding and the lack of a take-charge player late in games. »
Milwaukie police searching for man missing from group home
Clackamas County News
Feb 04Gilbert Edwin Lloyd Jr., 49, left his Milwaukie group home to visit a friend in Beaverton. He takes daily medications and his caretaker is worried Lloyd may have become confused. »
Milwaukie police seek man missing from group home
Clackamas County News
Feb 04Gilbert Edwin Lloyd Jr., 49, might have a medical problem or be confused, his caretaker fears. »
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Black Bloc Trashes Belmont; Cops Make Arrests
Portland Mercury
Feb 07Belmont store window smashed. Shortly after 6 pm, with red-and-black flags waving, several dozen protesters left Colonel Summers Park, as promised, for an anti-police-brutality march that had the Portland Police Bureau concerned enough that it sent out... »
Truffle-licious Eugene Weekend
Good Stuff Nw
Feb 06When the folks at Travel Lane County asked if I'd be interested in coming down to the Oregon Truffle Festival to forage for the elusive Oregon white truffle, I answered as fast as I could hit the "reply" button on my mail program and type "Yes, please!... »
Horse Feathers Announce the Details of Their Fourth Album
Blog Town, Pdx
Feb 06That there is the cover of the new Horse Feathers album, which comes out on April 17 on Kill Rock Stars. As you can see, the record is called Cynic's New Year, and as you might not be able to see, it is "by Horse Feathers with help from some various ot... »
Tonight in Music
Blog Town, Pdx
Feb 06Perfect Pickle ( Via) Holocene—Perfect Pickle: Pete Krebs, Denver, Cecilia und die Sauerkrauts, DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid, 6 pm, $10 Doug Fir—Twin Sister, Ava Luna, Pure Bathing Culture, 9 pm, $10-12 East End—Portland Metal Winter Olympics: Pinkzi... »
A Trailer for Kill List, the Best PIFF Movie I've Seen So Far
Blog Town, Pdx
Feb 06The Portland International Film Festival starts later this week, which means all of us Mercury film writers have been selflessly watching about 48,000 press screenings and DVDs so that we can give you ungrateful jerks about 48,000 reviews of a whole bu... »