News Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen held a "heated" meeting with Portland Mayor Charlie Hales this afternoon, saying he's "shocked and concerned" that the mayor's proposed budget eliminates funding for a a 16-bed mental-healt...   More

News Nike has picked Washington County for a planned major expansion, selecting property it already owns over Portland's South Waterfront.Portland had been in the running for Project Impact, which promises to create as many as 6,000 new jobs in the coming decades. Julia Brim-Edwards called the Mayor Charlie Hales at 2:15 pm today to say they were going with Washington County, Hales' spokesman Dana Ha...   More

News  Portland's city bureaus yesterday presented Mayor Charlie Hales with their proposed budget cuts for 2013—and the Portland Police Bureau is offering up high-profile items for the ax.

The budget proposal suggests cutting the entire school police, mounted patrol and property crimes investigation units.

The "point person" on the PPB budget was Directo...   More