We can't decide what's the better headline:

CREEPY BUT TRUE

or

CREEPY AND SMART

or

REALISM: CREEPY OR SMART?

Regardless, the Portland School Committee will consider a proposal tonight that would allow students at King Middle School to obtain prescription birth control medication. The committee meeting will take place at 7 p.

Attention local peace activists:

We think it is perfectly safe to attend the "virtual rally" US Representative Tom Allen is hosting tomorrow against the Iraq war. I know, I know - you wouldn't really think so, given Allen's general practice of having protestors arrested.

But we here at the Portland Phoenix have a sneaking suspicion that people who attend the rally will not be arrested (at least not at Allen's request).

The Portland branch of the League of Young Voters recently honored nine people (or groups) for being "young people" who are "social entrepreneurs," however they define those concepts.

The group's official announcement of the winners doesn't say anything about the winners or even give their ages. There is nothing there or in the media release to support the media release's quote from League state director Justin Alfond, saying that the award winners "exemplify the important contributions young people make to Portland."