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Free tabloid published each Thursday, found in Portland and Vancouver paper machines. A wealth of…read morein depth, original local news and opinions. It's one of the 15 community publications in this region by Pamplin Media Group.

Love what Vignette stands for and does. Their creative + strategic approach of bridging the gap…read morebetween employees and employers is amazing, and that is only the beginning of all of the great work this agency can provide. They go above and beyond from point A to point B. The level of care one gets by being a client is top notch. They are my agency of choice when it comes to Employee Engagement. If you are looking to find a new approach to breathe new life into your business, brand, culture and/or communications...do yourself a huge favor and call Vignette. I've referred them to many folks in the industry. Check out their work!

From the owner: Vignette is the Employee Experience Agency®. We help Leaders, HR departments & Internal…read moreCommunications teams engage and activate employees through powerful employer brand engagement; making your company the employer of choice. Since our inception, Vignette has helped companies elevate their employee experience, creating more rewarding connections between employers and employees.

Some of the best literature that you have never read is being published by this impressive literary…read moremagazine. Most of the writers published in this quarterly aren't aiming to be The Next Big Thing In The Publishing World, although they certainly have the talent to become just that. They're writing for writing's sake, and their work reflects that fact. Usually themed, Tin House Magazine packs a punch with its unique offerings in fiction, poetry and the art of the essay. It's a wonder that this magazine isn't available on newsstands everywhere, but then again its Fall 2009 issue, the doubly-themed "Hope/Dread," featured a brilliant sun on one side and a menacing devil on the other, and the literature was chosen accordingly. Try putting that out there on the same rack with Cosmo and see which one sells faster. But then again, Tin House isn't about sales, at least not in the conventional publishing sense. They are all about good literature, and they're not afraid to publish good literature. In a world gone mad - or at the very least, dominated by popular fiction that's often not worth the paper it's printed on - Tin House is a breath of fresh air. Sometimes strange, often different, usually thought-provoking air, but fresh air all the same. Can I get an "Amen" to that?

This is one of the best literary creative writing publications in the US! It comes out quarterly…read moreand always has amazing reads. And one of the draws is their summer workshop which has readings each night for an entire week from the likes of Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Jim Sheppard. Students and literary fans come for workshops from all over the country. It doesn't get better to sit at the bog at Reed while your most favorite authors read their work! And I almost feel like I am at adult summer camp or some Ivy League east coast campus for that one week in July!

When I can find actual articles discussing Oregon topics and local Salem Oregon topics it's pretty…read moregreat. The issue for me is navigating the website. I pay for a subscription, a price that nearly matches Netflix, but I have to deal with flashing ads, pop-up videos, and I have to be careful when scrolling because it takes me to advertisers pages. I just want to read the news. is that not what we pay for??

Evertysingle billing cycle I get a message n from the Statesman Journal that my account information…read moreneeds to be updated because they say my credit card declines payment. Every single billing cycle I call the Statesman Journal and they say they will submit the payment request by hand. My credit card says they are not receiving any requests for payment from the Statesman Journal. This has been going on for a year. The last person I talked to at the Journal today said they can see I have called multiple times and they will "escalate the issue."

If you're reading your local alternative weekly for hard-hitting national news stories or…read moremuckraking journalism, you're doing it wrong. You know that this is a free paper and actual journalism costs money, right? This is a newspaper for people who get their news online, but want a piece of paper to physically flip through while sitting at a coffee shop ogling the hot tattooed denizens of Portland and figuring out what bands to see next. As far as I'm concerned, the Mercury is mainly arts, entertainment, events, and a bit of local political coverage, and if you expect anything much more substantial you're going to be disappointed. I read the Mercury for movie reviews, One Day at a Time (HILARIOUS), Savage Love, I, Anonymous, show listings, restaurant reviews, and the event calendars. It was one of the first alternative weeklies I read, and it almost always made me laugh. When I lived in San Francisco and Boston I was quite disappointed in the local weeklies because they took themselves way too seriously and were rarely funny or relevant. I know what's going on in the world because I read about it in my news feeds online, and oftentimes it's fucking depressing as hell. I don't really need my local weekly to remind me of that; I just want it to entertain me and educate me about how best to enjoy this lovely town we live in. If you want more muckraking local journalism, you probably should have subscribed (yeah, paid money) to a local paper like The Oregonian about 10 years ago, so they didn't have to cut their staff and content down to virtually nil. If you want serious reporting on world affairs, subscribe to a large newspaper like the New York Times. Just don't read this newspaper you got for free and then whine about how much of your time you wasted reading it. P.S. I should probably disclose that in possibly his last official act on Twitter, Frank Cassano propositioned me through the Mercury's Twitter feed. And I married the guy who wrote (and originated) the video game column, "Geek Out," so maybe I have a conflict of interest.

I don't know what that dude Andrew C. is talking about. The Mercury covers nearly no national news…read moreat all. It's all local. And yes it is not the brother of the WW. Not even close. Apples and oranges. It is what it is. It is our cities young arts and entertainment paper. Covering local news stories that major newspapers won't cover. Snark, sass, in depth coverage of local music and art.

Articles seem bias centered, little research, and more like bantering with no strong argument.read more

Blah, blah, blah blah, liberal blah blah blah Blah, blah…read morecloset Republicans blah, blah, blah, blah Blah. Blah, Blah!!! Bullies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAH BLAH !!!

This is a great small town newspaper. They do a really good job of staying local and reporting on…read morethe important things in the community. My kids have been featured many times with sports and different school activities. I'm very glad to have this paper in our small town. Thank You!

I found this free monthly tabloid in a Vancouver entrance-way. At 28 pages it's huge; 2/3 local…read morenews, 1/3 advertising for "Woodland, Kalama & Points All Around". There's a lot of substance. It's delivered to the locals for free. For others a subscription is $25 per year. I wish they'd say "who" authored "each" article.