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24 May 2024, 11:20 am by Jack Bogdanski
They've pretty much finished counting the ballots here in Multnomah County from Tuesday's elections. [read post]
23 May 2024, 5:08 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Vince Jones-Dixon.We have some new numbers in the Multnomah County elections. [read post]
23 May 2024, 4:21 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Here's a revealing story from OPB, in which the guy running the Multnomah County emergency medical services bureaucracy is busted for giving out incorrect information about outcomes for cardiac arrest victims. [read post]
22 May 2024, 5:28 pm by Jack Bogdanski
The power went out for nearly an hour here at Blog Central, just as Multnomah County election workers dropped some new numbers from yesterday's contests. [read post]
22 May 2024, 3:06 pm by Jack Bogdanski
I was a little surprised to read, here, that there are still 50,000 votes being counted in Multnomah County. [read post]
22 May 2024, 8:20 am by Jack Bogdanski
 Probably the most depressing results are in the Multnomah County commission races. [read post]
21 May 2024, 8:33 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Surprisingly, it was popular in Washington and Clackamas Counties, while it is just scraping by in Multnomah. [read post]
21 May 2024, 7:52 am by Jack Bogdanski
" * * * * *The Multnomah County chair, Chevy Vega, and the interim commissioner, Jesse "Moonlight" Beason, are parading around on county time extolling the virtues of "Basic Income for All. [read post]
13 May 2024, 5:34 am by Jack Bogdanski
Soon-to-retire Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran has a blistering op-ed in the O about the farce that was the 90-day fentanyl "emergency" declaration n Portland. [read post]
10 May 2024, 7:18 am by Jack Bogdanski
If you don't live in Multnomah County, you sure don't want to be buying your lottery tickets here. [read post]
9 May 2024, 6:21 am by Jack Bogdanski
The first is whether Multnomah County should spend $25 million the Legislature recently allocated for a new sobering center.... [read post]
6 May 2024, 6:10 pm by Jack Bogdanski
One was from the camp of the feckless Multnomah County district attorney, Mikey Schmidt, who is apparently railing challenger Nathan Vasquez in the polls. [read post]
6 May 2024, 4:12 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Lives are at stake, literally.In the meantime, evertybody in Multnomah County needs to have a Plan B for getting to the hospital in a hurry if they need to. [read post]
6 May 2024, 9:00 am by Jack Bogdanski
But it's still up, here, if you know whence to dig it out.The benefits of a mysterious $340,000 contribution to the Working Families Party of Oregon continue to accrue to incumbent Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt.New filings with the Oregon secretary of state show the Working Families Party has now contributed $213,000 of that sum to Schmidt’s campaign. [read post]
3 May 2024, 1:24 pm by Jack Bogdanski
We got some more election porn in the mail today, including a gaslight special from Multnomah County's feckless district attorney, Mikey Schmidt. [read post]
2 May 2024, 4:58 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Today our mail carrier dropped off several tasty instant classics.At the top of the heap, there's this one from Multnomah County Commission candidate Jessie Burke, who reminds us that this election cycle, we have a clear choice. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 4:31 pm by Jack Bogdanski
But it seems especially apropos of yesterday's absurd "state of the county" speech by the Multnomah County commission chair, Jessica Chevy Vega.She listed decades of federal disinvestment in housing, a broken and unaffordable child care system, a historic lack of treatment and services for people who struggle with addiction or mental illness, people entangled in the criminal justice system, and the issues of food and transit deserts.According to the… [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 3:01 pm by Jack Bogdanski
One was the revelation that Multnomah County chair Jessica Chevy-Vega's stranglehold on the county commission agenda is illegal, at least according to a prominent Portland law firm. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 10:46 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Our voters' pamphlet arrived in the mail the other day, a combined Oregon State and Multnomah County version. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 4:20 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Sam the Sham Adams, who's running for Multnomah County commission, has gotten two lawyers from the state's biggest, baddest law firm (where I once worked) to write a memo saying that the county chair, Jessica Chevy-Vega, is breaking state law by keeping a stranglehold on the commission agenda. [read post]