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Millennial Tales of Terror: Smooth Exorcist
by Suzette Smith Kenneth HueyFor a while, I lived in a Detroit mansion. It had three stories, two wings, 10 bedrooms, and a ceiling that was falling in. The mansion was rife with haunts. One guest saw...
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Millennial Tales of Terror: Make Room for Daddy
by Joe Streckert Kenneth HueyOh, I don’t drink coffee,” she said as we sat down at a coffee shop, “but you suggested this place, so I said yes.”Had the worst date of my life been a horror movie, this...
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Donald Trump's History of Shredding Documents and Destroying Emails When He's...
by Christopher Frizzelle "Oh my god, guess what? I've deleted thousands of emails, too. Even when I've been under subpoena!"a katz / Shutterstock.comToday Newsweek published an explosive story about...
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From the Archive: Happy Heteroween
Putting the Hetero in Halloween by Dan Savage ROBERT ZUCKERMANThere's something scary—scary in all the wrong ways—about a "sexy Jane Doe" costume.The sexy cadaver costume is half of one of those...
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Awakening Portland's Ghosts on the Lone Fir Cemetery's Tour of Untimely...
by Ciara Dolan THE TOUR OF UNTIMELY DEPARTURES MTV Crypts.Courtesy of Portland MetroWithout context, Saturday evening's festivities outside of the Lone Fir Cemetery probably looked like some kind of...
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Portland Man Accused of Strangling Woman Who Rebuffed Kiss
by Doug Brown Jason Kascius, 43Left: Facebook. Right: MCSOA 43-year-old Portland man is behind bars, accused of straddling, strangling, and threatening to kill a woman for not kissing him on...
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A “Teachable Moment” by Wm. Steven Humphrey I’ve got an aversion to the term “teachable moment”—usually because I’m rarely prepared when the teachable moment arrives.That’s our job as parents, right?...
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The Housing Crisis Created a Boom in First-Time Homeless Families by Doug Brown The math is simple but the results are heartbreaking: The population of the Portland area is increasing far faster than...
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“Help! My Son’s a Lazy Bum!” by Ronald Crouch Got a question too embarrassing to ask anyone else? Send it to asktheparent@trueparent.com, and we’ll find an expert parent to answer it for you! This...
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Bedroom Death? Here are Six Tips to Put You Back on the Road to Sexy Town. by Maureen McCall If you noticed a distinct drop in libido after your kids were born, you are most certainly not alone....
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Competitive Sports; Non-Competitive Kids by Ben Chaliss On any given Saturday, the local parks are teeming with kids playing soccer and parents encouraging them to be more aggressive—with some...
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Sleep Training... for Parents! by Elisabeth Allie At a year old, my daughter Sarah was sleeping though the night. Yay! Then at 18 months, she started waking up again at 3 am—every night, for months....
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Raising Boys and Girls: There Is a Difference by Bryony Angell Your teenage sonjust gave you a cagey response when you asked why he got home last night way past his curfew; your tween daughter isn’t...
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How One Grieving Mother Followed Her Vision to Help Other Parents by Heidi Low In 2013, I founded ’Ohana Oasis—a non-profit organization that provides weeklong retreats for parents who have...
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Coming Out in Front of Other Parents is One Thing... But What Will the Kids Think? by Nikole Potulsky WHEN I volunteered to facilitate the LGBT parent affinity group at my kids’ elementary school, I...
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My Kid, the Pantywaist by Heather Arndt Anderson Everybody knows that raising kids with consciousness is hard. But it is especially tough to raise a woke, patriarchy-smashing son when you grew up with...
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Good Morning, News: Hillary's Debate Preview, Trump's Tax Dodge, and You Need...
by Dirk VanderHart ONE WEEK UNTIL ELECTION DAY, PEOPLE. But you should have already voted. Once again, here's our shorthand endorsments, here's the long version, and here's a 90-minute debate on...
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Portland Timbers 2016 Player Grades
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersJust under eleven months ago, on December 6th, 2015, the Portland Timbers won MLS Cup in Columbus. They haven't won a road game since.Two Sundays ago,...
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Bullseye Glass Might Have Polluted Groundwater, Too
by Daniel Forbes DOMINIC DEVENUTAIN MID-SEPTEMBER, some seven months after Bullseye Glass entered a vortex of regulatory oversight and community outrage over emissions of poisonous heavy metals, it...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: His Woes Are Similar to WOES Woes
by Dan Savage I began reading WOES letter from this week's column with much interest, as it started out a lot like my situation—resentment, disappointment, insecurity. We also both work full-time and...
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