CHARLIE HALES, taking over as Portland mayor in a month, has been operating like something of a specter over the past few weeks—quietly, respectfully haunting city hall during the last days of his ...

I was thinking about hall monitors the other day. And crossing guards. And dinosaurs. Kidding about the dinosaurs but thinking about hall monitors and crossing guards makes me feel like a dinosaur.

At Shaker High School, the start of a new school year is always an exciting time, marked by the enthusiastic return of students who are greeted by a familiar face. Kay Smollen, known affectionately as ...

LATOYA HARRIS wasn’t sure why she’d come to Portland’s Citizen Review Committee (CRC)—a volunteer panel tasked with reviewing police misconduct cases—to nervously tell the story of that awful day last ...