News Several Portlanders say they received a strange phone call last night: a recorded message asking how they planned to vote on fluoridating the water in Wichita, Kansas.

Four Portland residents tell WW they received the recorded call on Tuesday evening asking about fluoride.
Each of them says the robo-call began the same way: "On November 6, residents of...   More

News The latest YouTube video in Portland’s fluoridation war has the bright cutout-style animation of South Park and the ominous string-and-synth score of Unsolved Mysteries.  The four-minute clip   More

News Portland smokers, hold on to your butts: Multnomah County wants the right to tax your cigarettes, and now the state of Oregon might be looking to increase the price of a pack as well. Thanks to    More

News Bob Ball is making another bid to save the Portland Police Bureau's mounted patrol unit.

The Pearl District condo developer made the city an offer this month through the non-profit Friends of Portland's Mounted Patrol to increase its annual contribution to the horseback cops from $2...   More

News The city's first Portland Loo was out of commission this weekend after someone pulled the metal door partly off its hinges last Thursday morning.

"We've got a Loo down," Anne Peterson, who manages the city's six Loos for the Bureau of Environmental Services, told her colleagues Thursday, April 18.  

A city-contracted janitor found the door hanging off its hinges a...   More

News The possibility of Nike placing its campus expansion in Portland's South Waterfront may be dead, but the non-disclosure agreements city officials signed with the sports apparel giant are very much alive.

Those agreements cover any incentive offers Portland Development Commission made Nike, as well as full details of the campus proposals the company showed city of...   More

News The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has ruled that a complaint filed against TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane is outside of its jurisdiction.

Retired bus driver and longtime TriMet scourge Al Margulies filed the ethics complain...   More

News Details of what Nike pitched to Portland City Hall about its possible expansion to South Waterfront are emerging in the wake of today's announcement the shoe and apparel giant will expand instead near its world headquarters in Washington County.

WW has learned that, ...   More

News  Turns out plenty of people would like a shot at running the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

The city has received 44 applications for the open transportation director job, officials say.

It's been a hot seat to occupy: May...   More

News  The Portland branch of the NAACP has voted to oppose fluoridating Portland's water supply.

“Children growing up in communities of color already face risks from many different environmental chemicals," NAACP political chair Cheryl Carter said in a statement this afternoon, "and they do not need more chemicals added to their drinking water.”

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