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25 Sep 2023, 7:49 am by Jack Bogdanski
Many years ago the Multnomah County health department snuck a private methadone clinic into the Buckman neighborhood of southeast Portland over the holidays without a word of notice to the neighborhood. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 9:47 pm by Jack Bogdanski
“The Governor and I both recognize that Multnomah County has more resources than other parts of the state,” Vega Pederson told OPB. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 7:24 pm by Jack Bogdanski
An alert reader forwarded me an email message from the Multnomah County district attorney's re-election campaign. [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 8:21 am by Jack Bogdanski
Amanda Fritz, a former City Council member who set the city up for its current major downfallTera Hurst, queen of the insane Measure 110, Portuguese travel agent, and former lackey for Char-Lie Hales, another terrible mayorDiane Linn, the most ridiculous Multnomah County Commission chair of all time until Chevy Vega pulled up, and now another Measure 110 pusherSome person from Central City Concern speaking for the nonprofit industrial complexSome guy who used to work as… [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 10:20 pm by Jack Bogdanski
The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office assisted in applying for a search warrant, according to the news release, and once it was granted, investigators searched the vehicle and found about 40,000 fentanyl pills and about 18.4 pounds of powdered fentanyl, together weighing about 28 pounds....The Westside Interagency Narcotics Team includes officers from the Beaverton and Hillsboro police departments, the sheriff's office, the Oregon National Guard's… [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 9:39 am by Jack Bogdanski
I see the Multnomah County commissioners are busy scratching each other's eyes out while Portland's drug addiction and crime problems continue to spiral out of control. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 4:10 am by Jack Bogdanski
So far I've been able to assemble this roster of intrepid "fact-finders":Mike Schmidt, Multnomah County district attorneyJessica Vega Pederson, Multnomah County commission chairDemocratic State Sen. [read post]
10 Sep 2023, 7:30 am by Jack Bogdanski
Here's a polite but outraged op-ed in the O from the person running the advisory committee to the Multnomah County bureaucracy on the homelessness budget. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 5:48 am by Jack Bogdanski
I look at the public schools and see really bad management, and the buck for that stops with the board.Now she's bobbling away on the Multnomah County commission, too – one of the two outvoted voices of reason there, supposedly. [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 7:54 am by Jack Bogdanski
The folks who took over Multnomah County's never-used Wapato Jail and turned it into a highly functional homeless shelter, called Bybee Lakes, deserve a medal. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 1:33 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Here's a scathing new audit showing that the "joint homeless office" in Multnomah County is mismanaged, and so chaotic that nobody can tell for sure what, if anything, it's accomplishing. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 3:34 am by Jack Bogdanski
”Schmidt, who supported Measure 110, said the benefits are starting to emerge, like a new treatment center in Multnomah County: Quest Center for Integrative Health. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 1:23 pm by Jack Bogdanski
It's a private company that runs that service, under a contract with Multnomah County, and they say they can't find enough workers to run the ambulances. [read post]
13 Aug 2023, 2:57 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Portland's daily newspaper (sort of) takes a swipe at the Multnomah County district attorney, Mike Schmidt, today. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 4:12 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Second, the trend is going up,” Multnomah County Public Health Manager Brendon Haggerty said. [read post]
30 Jul 2023, 4:39 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Of the returns filed from Multnomah the previous year, 316,329 stayed in the county, but 35,364 filed somewhere else. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 2:08 am by Jack Bogdanski
Given the disturbing recent news about a series of murders of young women in the Portland area, at least four of which are connected, it's disheartening to read this story of another possible murder victim, a young woman who lived in Multnomah County (reportedly Portland), and law enforcement's alleged failure to pursue her case. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 10:34 pm by Jack Bogdanski
The backlash was swift and widespread, and so Multnomah County has stopped giving out clean drug paraphernalia to fentanyl addicts so that they can kill themselves more safely. [read post]