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21 Dec 2023, 6:08 am
Homer and the Gang say they've had it with the way the place is being run by the homeless industrial complex.This week, neighbors received a postcard in the mail from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office alerting them that the nonprofit Oregon Harbor of Hope — which holds the lease for the shelter — is ceasing its operations come Jan. 1. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 2:16 am
OPB has the scoop:“People should be proud of the work that the city of Portland is doing under withering circumstances to ensure the recovery of this city,” Mayor Ted Wheeler told OPB Monday morning....Wheeler specifically pointed to the immense billboards erected in downtown Portland by an advocacy group called People for Portland. [read post]
4 Nov 2023, 5:11 am
A city spokesperson told KGW that Mayor Ted Wheeler is talking with several interested downtown building owners. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 10:44 pm
”In January, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a “90-day reset” for the Central Eastside with a concentrated city effort to address safety and livability concerns that have become so chronic that several of the neighborhood’s mainstay businesses have threate[ne]d to leave....Joe Padulo, the owner of Portland Wine Storage on Southeast Alder, said Sunday that the reset had an effect in spurts as city workers swept through. [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 8:21 am
Here she is waxing long about the lame duck tenure of outgoing Mayor Ted Wheeler, and whom does she quote? [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 6:14 am
From a classic Friday news dump, we learn:As downtown Portland continues to be the source of national controversy, Mayor Ted Wheeler is hoping to contract a California-based nonprofit for outreach patrols in the city center.That nonprofit? [read post]
22 Aug 2023, 3:35 pm
Most of them have been responsible for wrecking it.But hey, at least Dud Wheeler is asking the state to start treating Portland as if it were actually part of Oregon – and the part that pays most of the taxes:Mayor Ted Wheeler is requesting that nearly 100 Oregon state troopers — a full fifth of the statewide total — be deployed in Portland to address crimes city police have said they are too overwhelmed to handle.The suggestion is one of dozens… [read post]
24 Jul 2023, 3:42 pm
He also noted that cities across the country, and around the Pacific Northwest, were seeing similar price hikes on large infrastructure projects....But the escalating cost of the project, which went up by 24% in just the last year alone, gave Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pause when the water bureau presented its latest estimate in June. [read post]
10 May 2023, 12:57 am
Here's a funny one:Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is convening a meeting with regional leaders this week to discuss a flurry of planned or proposed increases in taxes, fees and utility rates bearing down on households and businesses.Wheeler’s office Monday asked representatives from Multnomah County, the Metro regional government, TriMet, Portland General Electric, the Port of Portland and Portland Public Schools “to have an open discussion about our… [read post]
5 Apr 2023, 4:12 am
NPR has this piece, via NACDL's news update: In Oregon, some politicians, including Portland mayor Ted Wheeler, have proposed changing civil commitment law, so doctors have more leeway in compelling treatment for patients who are too sick to know they... [read post]
23 Jul 2022, 4:24 am
Where is Ted Wheeler? [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 2:35 am
Portland's mayor is so bad. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 6:31 pm
They have a spin, though, and it's the usual:What we found was a stalemate that could have been avoided because its dynamics are so familiar to even a casual observer of Portland politics: idealistic progressives who want to redistribute power to the silenced, quarreling with politically connected traditionalists who think the city is squandering its best virtues.What’s worse is the inattention of Mayor Wheeler and other city leaders that has allowed values that ought to… [read post]
26 May 2022, 12:12 pm
In 2018, Mayor Ted Wheeler called it an “abject failure. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 3:00 am
Ted Cruz in a challenge he brought to a provision of campaign finance law limiting the repayment of federal candidates’ loans to their campaigns. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 12:08 pm
Far from re-evaluating the progressive policies that contributed to Portland’s very rough 2020, Portlanders nearly elected a communist-dictator-skirt-wearing, explicitly Antifa-supporting mayor to replace Ted Wheeler, the very-progressive incumbent mayor. [read post]
17 Oct 2021, 4:01 am
Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment on Friday. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 4:50 am
That’s long since changed, as reflected by the middle of the night protests at the home of Portland mayor Ted Wheeler and New York City police commissioner Dermot Shea. [read post]
10 Jul 2021, 6:18 pm
Los Angeles (headed to India) Jacob Frey Minneapolis Bill De Blasio New York (termed out) Jim Kenney Philadelphia Ted Wheeler Portland Jenny Durkin Seattle (not seeking reelection) Muriel Bowser Washington, D.C. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 3:15 am
The reason for the resignations, in addition to the indictment, was that Ted Wheeler, the mayor, said the police were using too much force; that Marco Hernandez, a federal district judge, said that the police were using too much force; and that Michael Schmidt, the District Attorney, said that the police were using too much force. [read post]
