News & City Life

Article

Who We Are

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Article

What Portlanders Really Think

What We Want and What We Really Think about Love, Sex, Money, Religion, Politics, and More

09/20/2012

Who We Are: An Appendix

To Us, With Love

We asked 500 Portlanders: If you were making a postcard for Portland that contained the phrase “Home, Sweet Home,” what image would you use? Here’s a collage of the best ideas.

09/20/2012 Illustrations by Patrick Long

Editor's Note

Poll Positions

It's high time we crunched the numbers on our neighbors.

09/20/2012 By Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Portland

What needs to be done to ensure our continued enviable livability—and who pays for it?

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Family

It's getting more difficult—and expensive—to find a decent school.

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Health

Who gets the healthcare bill for poverty stricken citizens? And when is it OK to pull the plug?

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Religion

We're a highly spiritual people who prefer to sleep in on Sundays.

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Money

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Who We Are

Portlanders on Sex

In which we learn how many of us are making sweet love on a regular basis.

09/20/2012 Edited by Kasey Cordell and Randy Gragg

Article

Brain Storm 2012

Eight innovators changing our world

09/15/2012 Edited by Zach Dundas

Article

Smith and Hales: Two Questions About Character

The candidates vying to be Portland's mayor address two questions about character.

09/12/2012

Slide Show

Burn, Baby, Burn

Cooking with wood, keeping it clean and green, and bringing your stove camping – or to Kenya. First, peek behind the scenes at ADX.

09/09/2012 By Kristin Belz

Slideshow

Beam Us Downriver, Scotty!

08/29/2012

Q & A

Givenchy's New Portland Model

How Givenchy's new model went from studying philosophy at Lewis & Clark to top Parisian runways.

08/28/2012 By Eden Dawn

Slideshow

Slide Show: Red Sea

08/25/2012

Slideshow

PDX Index: Football!

08/25/2012

Feature

Tilting at Landfills

Fifth-generation farmer Ramsey McPhillips and a motley crew of neighbors wage a quixotic battle to stop North America’s largest garbage company from growing even bigger in the heart of Oregon's wine country.

08/23/2012 By Aaron Scott

Feature

Collective Memory

A new museum at the Oregon State Hospital takes visitors behind the walls and through the history of the enigmatic facility.

08/23/2012 By Emily Grosvenor

Feature

Red Sea

At Alaska’s wild Graveyard Point, a Portland family works to reinvent the salmon business.

08/23/2012 By Tim Sohn