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20 Mar 2024, 5:14 am
The city continues to move in the wrong direction on just about every front. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 9:05 pm
In 2019, Minneapolis was the first major city to eliminate single-family zoning. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 6:19 am
For many years, the City of Portland let a nonprofit take over the historic Kenton Firehouse, use it, rent it out, maintain it, and keep the rent after expenses. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
The man who handled the transaction was restaurateur Nick Bovis, who was sentenced to nine months in prison on fraud charges in a federal probe into city corruption. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 11:50 pm
I've mentioned a few times all the health care issues facing Portlanders these days. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 6:34 am
The new "rank choice" election system that the City of Portland is now using for the mayor and City Council races is such a screwball setup that City Hall is going to have to go on a "voter education" drive in the lead-up to the November election.Multiple offices in the City are planning voter education outreach – including proactive trainings, hearings, household mailers, and local community partnerships, that will take place… [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 3:53 pm
I see that the lame duck mayor of Portland and the queen of the Multnomah County commission held another one of their bizarre press conferences about the city's street crisis yesterday. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 6:04 am
One thing you can't overlook is what a tax trap Portland, Oregon is. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
Campaign Finance Oregon: “Legislature Passes Historic Campaign Finance Bill” by Carlos Fuentes (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Elections National: “RNC Installs Trump’s Chosen Leaders in Merger with His Campaign” by Isaac Arnsdorf (Washington Post) for MSN Ethics California: “S.F. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 1:18 pm
The City Hall car haters are about to cast their spell over Broadway and Weidler Streets:The U.S. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am
It broadens the definition of people who are prohibited from giving gifts to city officials. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 5:08 am
I've written a fair amount about how the City of Portland's 1 percent tax on sales by mega-companies, which is supposed to somehow be fostering "clean energy," is really just a slush fund from which the city commissioners dole out pork to their favorite "nonprofits. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 3:00 am
Campaign Finance Kansas: “Wichita City Council Lifts Ban on Corporate Political Donations, with One Requirement” by Matthew Kelly (Wichita Eagle) for MSN Maine: “Measure to Limit PAC Contributions in Maine Could Be Headed for November Ballot” by Eric Russell for Portland Press Herald Elections Arizona: “Independent Sen. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 12:35 pm
Don't let the car haters of Portland City Hall see this one. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 3:00 am
A review of the most recent election cycle found over $700,000 in contributions to the current board that would violate state campaign finance limits for cities and counties without their own campaign financing caps. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 1:59 pm
I thought it was imposed on gross sales.Anyway, there's Portland City Hall again, on the wrong side of a hot-button issue, as it is most of the time. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 3:02 pm
I see that they pressed the pause button on the latest platinum-plating of the Portland Airport. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 1:15 pm
By banning the enforcement of anti-camping ordinances throughout the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit—which includes (among others) the states of Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona—that court has overseen the proliferation of homeless encampments in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, and countless other cities. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 11:32 am
I see they're talking up a storm about what to do with the Keller Auditorium in downtown Portland. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 9:17 am
I see that the dysfunction caused by the mule-like stubbornness of Multnomah County's inept commission chair, Jessica Chevy Vega (right), is spilling over into the Portland City Council, where her alter ego, Carmen "Chainsaw" Rubio (left), is keeping a seat warm.This week the city council joined a nearly unanimous chorus calling on Vega to let the county's private ambulance contractor use more EMTs in the name of getting more ambulances on the street. [read post]
