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.