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Pizza: light of our lives, food divine, perfection in a slice. It is said in Virgil’s Aeneid, that Aneas—exiled from his home ...

Can children really be volunteers? Or are we just pretending they can because it sounds better than what it is? We have laws to protect kids from being overworked, but all of that disappears the ...

One things I keep in mind is that among the first audiences for anything we say or compose is ourselves. So what I think I’m saying to someone else, I’m really saying to my self first… including this.

Portland police officers returned to Northwest Portland Wednesday afternoon, to effectuate the arrest of a man involved in an ...

Overheard on the Springwater Corridor: "He likes to push people down stairs? And he wants me to take him to the Grand Canyon?!?!" ...

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When an information technology (IT) technician was beginning their career in IT services at Designer Shoe Warehouse, they had ...

An hours-long standoff Monday evening in Northwest Portland ended with police leaving the scene and bystanders intervening to ...

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Handelman was best known for his decades of commitment to police oversight and accountability in Portland. His rigorous ...

My always polite and very-high-functioning drunk husband was fucking around for the first fifteen years of our marriage. The other women were “unhappily married co-workers” who needed discretion.