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18 Aug 2010, 3:00 pm
City and state leaders are vigorously patting themselves on the back today upon the news that Danish wind energy equipment maker Vestas is keeping its American headquarters in Portland. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 3:41 pm
If Portland's financially blind electorate needs any further sign that the city government is careening toward bankruptcy, here's an interesting tidbit from today's Willy Week: [O]n Wednesday, City Council will vote whether to allow Commissioner Nick Fish’s Bureau of Parks & Recreation to borrow $3.8 million for maintenance projects.Borrowing to pay maintenance costs? [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 12:52 pm
What a horrible, horrible statement about the current condition of municipal government in Portland: Charter Commission members fumed that the City Council didn't provide it enough funding and arbitrarily limited the terms of members, causing high turnover and a shrunken panel. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 12:10 pm
And when would you put a stop to this making sure that we do go back to peaceful protests and not allowing our city to burn night after night? [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 8:16 am
The drama known as Occupy Portland should intensify this week with, among other things, visits to the city by two well known national figures. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 11:45 am
Since we established our City of Portland debt clock in 2007, we've tried to keep its data as accurate as possible. [read post]
2 Mar 2013, 8:20 am
Our spies within the City of Portland's juvenile bureaucracy pass along this e-mail message, received yesterday: From: BHR Communications Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 2:17 PM To: Citywide All Employees Distribution List Cc: City Elected Officials; City Elected Officials Exec's Subject: HRAR 4.03 - Dress, Appearance, and Fragrance in the Workplace ON BEHALF OF ANNA KANWIT, HR DIRECTOR: Good afternoon. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 1:26 pm
The police have substantially cleared out the Occupy Portland camps, and two downtown city parks that "hosted" them have been mostly cleared of protesters. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 4:45 pm
Admiral Randy's people in the Portland permit office are still ramming through the red-tagged no-parking cr-apartment complex on Division Street, and they're not even letting on to the City Council, much less the outraged neighbors, what they're up to. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 1:43 am
Guys like the one in the picture are the only ones the politicians in this city and state give a darn about any more. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 8:51 am
Getting the holier-than-thou, and broker-than-thou, Portland city government involved in the issue is bad, bad policy. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 3:31 pm
A judge has ruled that the proposed Portland city tax for the arts is an income tax and not an unconstitutional head tax. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 3:45 pm
In the discussion of the proposed $35-a-head City of Portland arts tax, we hope that the finances of all of the beneficiary organizations are opened up and thoroughly aired. [read post]
21 May 2010, 9:31 am
For a while there, Portland city commissioner "Legend" Saltzman was telling people that he was demanding drug testing of the police force as part of contract negotiations with the police union. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 5:24 pm
One wonders where in Portland you could come even close to such a distribution of students, given the city's demographics: 76% white, 9% Latino (of any race), 7% Asian-American, 6% African-American, and 10% mixed or other race. [read post]
9 May 2014, 10:28 am
As a Portland bicycle accident lawyer I do have to note that bike accidents are the one area where, according to the article, our city could clearly do better. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 9:39 am
We're used to getting inane, full-color propaganda mailers from the City of Portland, but yesterday the mailman brought us a whole envelope full of them: It takes four different brochures to explain to us how the ordeal of household solid waste disposal is about to become even more inconvenient, and for some, more expensive than it already is. [read post]
2 May 2017, 2:49 pm
"Portland cabbie who accused city of bias against white drivers loses court appeal": Jake Bleiberg of The Bangor Daily News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. [read post]
2 May 2007, 2:51 am
The tribe has spoken, loud and clear, in the first-round balloting in Survivor Portland City Hall: Bureaucracy Edition. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:28 pm
Field, Portland Timbers fans are getting soaked, much like the city's taxpayers. [read post]
