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Portland Public Schools Takes Issue With Explosive Bond Audit
Top district officials took issue with the audit’s scope and findings, with PPS’ senior chief of operations disputing “the tenor of the report’s narrative and frequent implication of impropriety.”
Key Questions About the Only Measure on Portlanders’ Ballots Won’t Be Answered Until After the Election
Portland voters will see only one city measure on their ballots this fall. Measure 26-267, if approved, would create a participatory budgeting program that gives Portlanders discretion over how to spend an amount equivalent to 2% of the city’s general fund (roughly $16 million) every year.
Jeff Swickard Is Collecting Downtown Towers. He Says He Has No Plan.
“I’m just not risk averse. I’m not afraid of investing in businesses that I believe in—in things that I believe in.”
Movement Swells to Protest PPS School Closure Proposals
At a Tuesday meeting, the seven members of the School Board faced the reality that, for many Portlanders, the school closure pill won’t go down easily.
Portland’s Director of Public Utilities Is on Paid Administrative Leave
Ting Lu, the city’s first-ever director of public utilities, is on paid administrative leave.
Portland Developer Jeff Swickard Gives Kotek $100,000
Downtown Portland’s latest real estate developer, Jeff Swickard, recently gave $100,000 to Gov. Tina Kotek’s reelection campaign.
Portland Public Schools Releases Two School Closure Scenarios to School Board
Portland Public Schools has released two school closure scenarios. Under one scenario, the district would shutter 14 schools. Under the other, it would shutter 11 schools.
Congressional Republicans Target Oregon Environmentalists
The House Committee on Natural Resources criticizes Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands for their ‘lawfare.’
Readers Respond to a Criminal Investigation Into Portland Public Schools
“Meanwhile, I’m just out here trying to teach my 35 teenagers in each of my dang classes and my whole school is rationing tissues and pencils.”
Why Are Bitters So Freakin’ Expensive?
The Great Angostura Famine—the event that turned bitters into the caviar of the alcoholic—took place just weeks after Barack Obama’s first inauguration.
First Oregon Governor’s Debate Gets Feisty
Gov. Tina Kotek and state Sen. Christine Drazan trade barbs and call each other disingenuous.
In August, OHSU Said Its Top Lawyer Had Retired. It Gave Her $1.8 Million to Go Quietly.
It has become almost commonplace for public institutions to shell out cash to departing employees in exit agreements. But the deal OHSU struck with former top lawyer Alice Cuprill Comas stands out.