Twenty years, good friends, fond memories; all while hitting deadlines February 10 2021
My View: More than anything, the people have made the Tribune what it is. We had a lot of people in January 2001, and a few of us remain.
Outside the walls of the original downtown Portland office and our fledgling staff, cynics questioned why somebody would start a newspaper in the year 2001 and especially in a city that already had an established newspaper, The Oregonian.
A lot of people believed that the Portland Tribune wouldn t make it to 2002.
While readers and media members welcomed the new, colorful, informative and entertaining Portland Tribune, many of them predicted doom; believe me, I heard it all, including from staffers at The Oregonian, although their opinions meant nothing.