AltWeeklies Wire
The Phone Book: Useful Resource or Outdated Waste?new
In the internet age, with Aunt Martha's phone number at your Googling fingertips, those weighty space-eaters known as phone books seem like un-green antiques every time they arrive unsolicited.
Willamette Week |
Amanda Waldroupe |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Oregon Leaders Offer Little Help to Mortgage Crisis Victimsnew
The state's powerful Democrats have ignored a mortgage bill that state Sen. Ben Westlund is putting together with three consumer advocacy groups -- AARP Oregon, OSPIRG and Our Oregon.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
01-16-2008 |
Housing & Development
Domestic Partnership Isn't All That's at Stake Herenew
Gay-rights advocates have blasted a U.S. District Court Judge's decision to put a hold on domestic partnerships for same-sex couples in Oregon until a Feb. 1 court hearing. But the temporary injunction issued last month hinges less on gay rights and more on a technical issue that could drastically alter the state's voter-initiative system by changing how the state treats petition signatures.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
01-09-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Union Workers Push a Boycott of Their Own Hotelnew
A majority of the unionized Portland Hilton workers voted to support a boycott of their downtown hotel employer after bargaining without reaching agreement on a new contract.
Willamette Week |
Don McIntosh |
01-09-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Trial By Facebooknew
When Lewis&Clark students decided to warn others about Morgan Shaw-Fox, they didn't go to the authorities -- they went to their computers.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
01-09-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The $150 Million Question: Gas-Guzzling Trucks or Dirty Tugboats?new
A ticked-off tribe and a delicate union negotiation could stop Metro from picking the most fuel-efficient option on a massive upcoming garbage-hauling contract.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
12-19-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Sacrificing Rebeccanew
Laurie Recht loved her daughter to death. Literally.
Willamette Week |
Nancy Rommelmann |
12-19-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Oregon's Undocumented Immigrants Race to Get ID Cardsnew
With less than seven weeks until new driver's license rules take effect, crowds are descending on the Mexican Consulate to get ID cards that let them get licenses under the more favorable, existing regulations.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
12-19-2007 |
Immigration
Paul Stanford, King Bongnew
He's Oregon's "Drug Czar" -- now he's under attack.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
12-12-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
The Final Journeynew
One growing business thanks to illegal immigration: burying undocumented Mexicans abroad.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
12-12-2007 |
Immigration
Hyping the Weathernew
A recent Oregon storm may not have lived up to the hype -- but the coverage could be more frightening than the event. To wit, our awards for the past few days.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
12-05-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Oregon Now Lags in Fighting Climate Changenew
How the state that pioneered the fight against climate change has fallen behind.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
12-05-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Prison Can be a Walk in the Parknew
Picking up wet leaves in the cold for 5 cents an hour is an opportunity to "develop appropriate work habits," according to the Oregon Department of Corrections and Portland Parks and Recreation. It's also an opportunity for Portland Parks to save $387 a day by hiring state prisoners to do work that city union officials say should be done by its full-time employees.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
11-28-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Portland's Segregated Schoolsnew
What happens when a school district spends millions on integration but gives parents the right to choose their children's schools?
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-14-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Portland Lawyers Fight for Guantanamo Prisoner No. 940new
Two years ago this week, authorities with the U.S. Department of Defense signed a memo approving Adel Hamad's release from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the 49-year-old Sudanese citizen has been held as an "enemy combatant" since 2002. Today, he remains imprisoned for reasons that aren't entirely clear.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-14-2007 |
Civil Liberties
