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29 Apr 2009, 3:26 am
If approved, the city would be allowed to set a separate fee for cars owned by Portland residents and charge them based on how many miles they drive.... [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 7:38 am
Last Saturday night, two people were killed and three others were injured when a city bus ran over a group of pedestrians in Portland, Oregon. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 4:28 pm
We did the annual analysis of our property tax bill last night, and while it went up only 0.3 percent over last year's bill due to some expiring tax levies, it did confirm a frightening trend: City of Portland taxes... [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:45 am
The main reason appears to be that the state crime lab is inadequate, but City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade has a few suggestions for improvement at the Portland police as well. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 7:49 am
The City of Portland's parking meter purchases -- said by federal prosecutors to be tainted by corruption -- get weirder and weirder. [read post]
12 Sep 2015, 9:30 pm
"Latest court ruling allows Portland panhandlers to stay on street medians; The city's attempt to ban people from standing on the medians is again deemed unconstitutional, this time by a federal appeals judge": This front page article appears in today's edition of The Portland (Me.) [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 5:25 am
Now that we've learned that the head of the Portland police union himself has road rage problems, to go along with those of one of the Chasse-killer cops that he so loudly covers for, isn't it time that the city start demanding that its uniformed officers submit to random drug testing? [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 9:52 am
When Paul Allen asked the City of Portland to bail out his mortgage on the Rose Garden arena a while back, then-Mayor Grampy showed him the City Hall door. [read post]
30 May 2017, 8:46 am
The city of Portland will not issue any of its own permits allowing organizers to hold the events elsewhere, [Mayor Ted] Wheeler said.The organizer of what is called the “Trump Free Speech Rally,” Joey Gibson, said: “There’s going to be more intensity, there’s going to be more threats. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 9:57 am
Public employees in Portland, Maine were asked by the city manager to forego wage increases in an attempt to avoid a tax increase on residents this year. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:40 pm
We didn't have any city funding for major league baseball, but it's official -- the City of Portland is now proposing to borrow and blow $75 million for major league soccer, all at risk to the taxpayers. [read post]
31 May 2011, 10:03 pm
The former police recruit who has accused several Portland officers of wrongdoing has been attacked by a city-hired shrink as having "paranoid personality disorder," in part because she's a "perfectionist" and "inordinately suspicious" of others. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 5:27 pm
There were four shootings on the streets of Portland this afternoon. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
The intrepid folks who battle with the City of Portland's water bureau have managed to pry out of the bureaucrats' hands a list of the items that the upcoming $100 million city water bond issue is supposed to be spent on. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 5:00 pm
Portland City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade has just posted a request for outside firms to bid on the contract to take yet another look at the police bureau's conduct in the infamous James Chasse killing. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 9:41 am
Our annual property tax statement has arrived, and here is the tale of the tape: As can be seen, the "urban renewal" tax now exceeds 26% of all of the property taxes that the City of Portland takes in. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 8:49 am
If you don't think the City of Portland has gone way over the top with its bicycle propaganda and programs, do tell what you think of this mailer, which the city's now sending out to every new business in town: You can't make this kind of thing up. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 8:38 am
The City of Portland has a new parks director, Mike Abbaté. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 10:21 am
Yet another success story for the City of Portland and technology. [read post]
12 May 2010, 6:26 am
Portland city commissioner Dan "Legend" Saltzman joined the city's police chief yesterday in gratuitously piling just a little extra manure onto the steaming heap that the city was already dealing with over the all-time-record $1.6 million settlement of the Chasse police killing case. [read post]
