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It's still a little funky, and so you get fun little start-ups like Ferruzza locating here in spaces that look like they haven't been updated since whatever five-and-dime might have inhabited them closed in the 1960s.

Recently I got together with the architects from local firm Architecture Office to hear about a proposed design for the Muslim Community Center of Portland .

Three finalists have been announced in a Portland State University-administered design competition on behalf of the Portland Firefighters Association for the creation of a new memorial.

Portland City Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman spent most of October sniping at each other in public or not talking in private.

Like California's 30 years ago, Oregon's growing Latino population is reaching a tipping point: A critical mass of Latino professionals is starting to organize and influence state and local politics.

Basic Rights Oregon, the state's largest gay rights group, has launched a grassroots educational campaign as a primary step to repeal the state's five-year-old constitutional amendment banning marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Get local insight to the Portland Real Estate Market. A blog of current housing conditions, home price evaluations, sales, and neighborhood details for buyers and sellers of houses and condos.

Gay rights backers plan to ask Oregon voters to reverse their ban on gay marriage.

One of the most divisive issues in Oregon's history may be coming back to voters as the state's largest gay-rights group kicked off their campaign Monday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.

Evan Wolfson, the executive director of the nationwide organization Freedom To Marry, will speak tonight at Portland State University about the evolving nation-wide attitudes about same-sex couples.

In my reporting at Salem News I will do my best to apply historically informed critical analysis to the most important issues in the areas of investment, economics, business and government that face the citizens of our State.

Portland State University President Wim Wiewel is pursuing aggressive expansion plans.

The Multnomah County commissioners never seem short of resolutions to pass and proclamations to make, but today's unanimous vote to support the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was particularly emotional for both the commissioners and the audience who came to support it.

Oregon City High School's counseling director killed himself at a campground near Estacada today, the Clackamas County sheriff's office reports.

Sources Say * Who's behind recall curtain? The Portland Tribune, Oct 29, 2009 GORDLY Although the names of those involved in the second recall campaign against Mayor Sam Adams are slow to leak out, new spokeswoman Avel Gordly confirms that one of the organizers is Karin Hansen, wife of former Mayor Tom Potter.

After teetering on the edge of permanent closure for almost two years, the Willamette Falls Locks appear ready to open next year after several months of repairs.

At the Green Building Research Lab at Portland State University, researchers have all of the tools they need to build a better building: special infrared cameras for evaluating building envelope thermal performance, indoor air quality sensors and a spectrophotometer, which gives emissions readings for roofing and other exterior coating materials.

I applaud the idea behind the Oct. 18 Metro article [" Next on planners' plate: food "]. However, I think the comparison of prices given for convenience food versus a lasagna dinner from scratch were misleading and discouraging.

About 100 kayakers and canoeists formed a giant 350 in the Willamette River this morning, joining more than 5,200 actions in 181 countries that urged world leaders to act quickly and aggressively to reduce carbon emissions that cause climate change.

Bill Bradbury isn't just running for Oregon governor. He's zipping - on a Segway.