The Willamette Week is an alternative newsweekly published in Portland, Oregon. It features reports on local news, politics, and culture. In several cases, the Week has scooped The Oregonian, Portland's major daily newspaper. Notable stories first reported by the Week include:

• Uncovering that former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt had a sexual relationship with a fourteen-year-old girl when he was mayor of Portland in the 1970s. Goldschmidt confessed to the Oregonian before the Week story could be printed, however.
• Revealing that Lewis and Clark College President Michael Mooney had made an unauthorized loan to a energy startup on which the company had defaulted. (This story lead to Mooney's eventual resignation.)
• Sifting through the trash of the Portland's mayor, police chief, and the district attorney for Multnomah County, after prosectors argued that refuse was not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Notable features of the Willamette Week include:

• The "Rogue of the Week", in which a recent action by a local person or organization is criticized.
• "Winners and losers", in which the newspaper gives a brief recap of the major news events of the week, from the perspective of who benefited and who did not.

External link

• Online version (http://www.wweek.com)