Murmurs A chilly wind blew through the mayor’s office this week: First Charlie Hales announced he would challenge Mayor Sam Adams in 2012. Hales, who preceded Adams as a champion of streetcars and sustain   More

Murmurs Attorney General John Kroger recently did some fundraising at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans, according to his campaign finance reports. Kroger returned home with a handful of checks boosting his c   More

Murmurs In the latest round of the long-running Oregon Department of Energy contracting saga, attorneys for former ODOE director Mark Long   More

Murmurs One of the most important proposed environmental laws to go before the Oregon Legislature in a generation may be dead in the water, a key lawmaker concedes. State Sen. Mark Hass (D-Raleigh Hills) s   More

Murmurs Mayor Sam Adams’ proposed $408 million general-fund discretionary budget includes a provision to keep the city’s controversial leaf-removal fee. The $15 to $65 fee riled some Portlanders last yea   More

Murmurs Former state Sen. Ryan Deckert (D-Beaverton), now the president of the Oregon Business Association, is considering challenging embattled U.S. Rep. David Wu in the 2012 Democratic primary. Deckert’s   More

Murmurs Here’s an update to a WW report from January that Portland Firefighters union president Jim Forquer got arrested for drunken driving after he drove his 2008 Jeep Wrangler into a telephone pole. For   More

Murmurs The City of Portland will include steroids on the list of substances it looks for when random drug tests begin in July for cops. As first reported April 8 at wweek.com, city Human Resources Director    More

Murmurs Children are the future…of tax breaks? Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioner Dan Saltzman have teamed up on a proposal that would give $500 tax credits to Portland businesses that create job-shadowing ex   More

Murmurs Let the speculation commence for Portland’s 2012 City Hall elections. Eileen Brady, who co-founded New Seasons Market with husband Brian Rohter, is considering a run against Mayor Sam Adams.   More