upcoming story did he admit publicly that there had been a sexual relationship. However, he stipulated that there had been no relationship between them until after Breedlove turned 18. Adams said he'd previously lied about the relationship in order to avoid feeding negative stereotypes of gay men as somehow predatory. In 2008, Willamette Week's Beth Slovic drew a conclusion that former senator Gordon Smith employed undocumented workers at his frozen-foods processing operation in Eastern Oregon while acknowledging that she has no definitive proof. Making public Neil Goldschmidt's long-concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl. Goldschmidt, a former Oregon governor, was mayor of Portland at the time of the abuse. After Willamette Week contacted him for comments regarding its upcoming story about that alleged misconduct, Goldschmidt went ahead and confessed to the relationship in an interview published in The Oregonian. That interview ran prior to Willamette Weeks report appearing in print, and was intended to preempt the story's publication. However, the alternative weekly did finally get the scoop, breaking the Goldschmidt story first on its website. Nigel Jaquiss won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for his work on that story. In 2015, then-Governor John Kitzhaber's fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, confirmed Willamette Weeks report that she married an 18-year-old Ethiopian immigrant in 1997 in exchange for a $5,000 payment so that he could keep his residency to attend school in United States. Alumni A number of notable journalists, writers and artists have worked at Willamette Week over the past several decades, including: Mindy Aloff, dance critic and essayist Byron Beck John Callahan, cartoonist Katherine Dunn, author Phil Keisling, former Oregon Secretary of State Susan Orlean, author See also The Santa Fe Reporter, also published by Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman Indy Week (Durham, N.C.), also published by Meeker & Zusman. References External links Willamette Week official site Profile from Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 1974 establishments in Oregon Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States Newspapers published in Portland, Oregon Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Publications established in 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers