News Although the tallies from yesterday's election are not official yet, Measure 26-152, Metro's five-year, $50 million open spaces levy is passing by a 54 percent to 46 percent margin.
That's a good result for a campaign that struggled to raise money and, according to campaign manager Stacey Dycus, started off with poor polling numbers.
The results in Multnomah County<...   More

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

News Victor Viets and Mayor Charlie Hales have a lot in common. Both used to work for large engineering firms in Portland and both are boating enthusiasts who have lived in Columbia River condos near w   More

News As of the end of day Friday, only 21.5 percent of registered voters had turned in their ballots for this month's election. Historically, off-year elections draw a light turnout. In 2011, 36.6 percent of registered voters cast ballots in Multnomah County. The May ballot includes a Metro parks' operating levy; a renewal of the Children's initiative; school board and education service distric...   More

News Former State Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley), who lost his seat in a hotly contested 2012 primary battle with now-Rep. Jeff Reardon, has a new gig.WW has learned that Schaufler—who served in the House from 2003 through last year—is now a corrections officer at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton. AFSCME, the union that represents corrections offic...   More

News Former State Sen. Rick Metsger (D-Welches) was nominated yesterday by Pres. Barack Obama to serve on the three-member National Credit Union Administration Board. Metsger, who served in the Senate from 1999 through 2010, concentrated on transportation and financial services issues in Salem. Metsger remains well-known in Portland from the 15 years he spent as a sports and news reporter...   More

News Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul De Muniz issued a written mea culpa to lawmakers today in the wake of a story that appeared in the current print edition of WW.At issue is the role that De Muniz, who retired from the Supreme Court in January, is playing in the Capitol. As a...   More

News Today's large donation to Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the campaign proposing Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland's water supply, comes from Upstream Public Health.
Upstream, a Portland non-profit, is the group that started the fluoridation movement rolling last year in clandestine tal...   More

News UPDATE, 6:25 pm: Several procrastinating readers have alerted WW that the arts tax website—the city's preferred method of payment—has crashed. It could not handle the volume of people trying to pay on the last day before a promised $20 penalty.
"At this ...   More

News Last week, the Hon. Paul J. De Muniz, recently retired chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, strode into a state capitol hearing room to offer his legal opinion on a bill being debated by l   More