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3 Jun 2024, 5:28 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
The lawsuit, which the man filed here in Multnomah County, alleges many forms of substandard safety. [read post]
30 May 2024, 12:17 pm by Jack Bogdanski
As I noted when Multnomah County and the Metro government hired the Portland City Hall tax agency to collect their new income taxes, those folks are particularly vicious.In keeping with that theme, this week we learn about the thousands of taxpayers who are getting hit with nasty letters threatening penalties and interest for alleged nonpayment of the Metro homeless and county preschool taxes. [read post]
29 May 2024, 10:30 am by Jack Bogdanski
Here's an interesting story that dropped last week and hasn't gotten the notice it deserves: Multnomah County's inept commission chair, Jessica Chevy Vega, has moved her residence from the humble outer east side to the toney West Hills.Vega Pederson and her husband had lived off 130th Avenue since January 2006, when they bought a three-bedroom, 2.5-bath house there for $266,400, according to public records. [read post]
28 May 2024, 7:24 pm by Jack Bogdanski
The role of PCPs includes electing the executive of the county-level GOP apparatus.I was a "PCP" myself for a couple of years, in the Multnomah County Democratic Party. [read post]
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]