News Laura Young says it’s about time someone at City Hall gets serious about paving Portland’s dirt roads. She lives in the Cully neighborhood, where 10 percent of city streets look like mud wallo More
Stuck in the Ruts
Hales’ pledge to pave streets has no plan—and no money.
News Laura Young says it’s about time someone at City Hall gets serious about paving Portland’s dirt roads. She lives in the Cully neighborhood, where 10 percent of city streets look like mud wallo More
Mortar Combat
City officials want answers about a contractor who got $88,000 under a minority set-aside program.
News Last September, the nonprofit Blanchet House of Hospitality cut a blue ribbon to dedicate a $12.9 million, four-story homeless meal kitchen and transitional housing shelter in Old Town. The city More
House With No Home
Hales restored lots of city hall spending. Why not services for kids escaping prostitution?
News In the final weeks of writing his first budget, Mayor Charlie Hales restored money to dozens of city programs he had suggested cutting: the Police Bureau’s Mounted Patrol Unit, a county-run ment More
A Sheriff on Probation
The Multnomah County board prepares to crack down on Staton’s overtime spending.
News Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is about to see his runaway overtime spending put into lockdown. Staton routinely spends nearly twice the money he budgets for overtime, and he’s on pace to More
Assign of the Times
Mayor Charlie Hales shuffles the city bureaus—and commissioners have to deal.
News Nick Fish looked shaken. Amanda Fritz was horrified. Steve Novick told bicycle jokes in the lobby. And Dan Saltzman left early, pleased as punch. Portland’s city commissioners had just learn More
Neato Bandito
Why cops are increasingly using nicknames to catch robbers.
News When the cops arrested 46-year-old Weston Miner Rogers for robbing three local banks, Portland police crowed in a press release about the capture of the “Hammer Pants Bandit.” Why the nickna More
Outstanding Imbalances
Democrats abandon a bill to regulate pernicious debt-collection practices.
News The corpses line 82nd and 122nd avenues, Northeast Sandy Boulevard and other roads of despair: not bodies, but defunct payday-loan shops. It seems like only yesterday a Portlander could find a More
Hotseat: Kim Kaminski
For the strategist behind fluoride’s defeat, the fight isn’t over.
News Kim Kaminski just got done burying the Portland power machine in the May 21 election, so excuse her if she’s a bit direct. Kaminski led Clean Water Portland, the campaign against fluoridating Po More
The Arts Ax
As You Pay your $35, some Portland schools will see fewer arts teachers than last year.
News Portland voters gave their blessing to a $35-a-person tax last fall on the promise the money would be used to restore arts and music to the city’s public schools. So imagine the surprise of More
Down to the Wire
CenturyLink wants to scrimp on maintenance in Oregon. Unions and utilities say it’s a bad idea.
News CenturyLink, the biggest provider of landline telephone and Internet service in Oregon, has made an extraordinary request of state regulators: Let us put off repair of utility poles for 10 years More
Top Articles from News
The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
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