http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-1393-1-.html Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17565-out_of_order_the_oregon_courts_have_so_far_spent_%2423_million_on_a_new_computer_system_with_little_.html The state of Oregon has a long history of bungled computer and high-tech projects: DMV, the State Data Center and OWIN]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17889-an_unreliable_housing_audit_a_city_funded_housing_audit_misrepresented_evidence_making_discriminatio.html In May, Portland got smacked in the face with embarrassing news: Nearly two of every three times they sought]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17655-not_so_black_white_why_is_the_fair_housing_council_keeping_details_of_its_recent_discrimination_stud.html City Commissioner Nick Fish has been in crisis management for more than a month
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18209-homeless_not_faceless_occupy_portland_forced_the_city_to_face_its_persistent_problems_with_homelessn.html The homeless were back occupying the spaces under the Burnside Bridge on Monday, one day after their downtown real estate had been reclaimed by the city over the weekend. The city shut down the ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17789-hotseat_edward_glaeser_a_harvard_economist_says_what_we_think_about_urban_life_may_be_wrong.html Go ahead, keep on thinking the world’s big cities are dangerous and unhealthy, that they increase alienation and poverty. Edward Glaeser wants you to know the truth. Glaeser, a Harvard economist, ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18851-whiffs_of_trouble_a_fertilizer_plant_comes_under_criminal_investigation_after_repeated_ammonia_leaks.html The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal investigation into a large leak of ammonia from a Columbia County fertilizer plant in 2010 that went undetected for five days. Re]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17810-all_aboard__the_crc%E2%80%99s_backers_want_to_use_an_obscure_law_for_light_rail_to_win_approval_for_.html Backers of the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing are working to keep the Interstate 5 bridge project from facing the same scrutiny other highway projects do under Oregon’s land-use laws. Inste]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17756-not_yet_over_and_out_the_state%E2%80%99s_emergency_radio_project_is_dead_but_its_costs_keep_going_up.html Earlier this year, Gov. John Kitzhaber made clear he wanted to halt an ugly project he’d inherited when he took office: the proposed statewide emergency radio system called the Oregon Wireless In]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20089-voices_2013_julie_parrish_a_brash_republican_survivor_talks_about_how_her_party_needs_to_change.html Julie Parrish knows she’s a political misfit. As she puts it, she’s an immigrant’s kid, a first-generation American from a Lebanese father. She’s an under-40 suburban mom with kids in pu]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19257-richard_ford_canada_one_boy_two_lives_and_an_uneven_landscape.html Dell Parsons, the narrator of Richard Ford’s conflicted new novel, Canada (Ecco, 432 pages, $27.99), tells us right off about the story’s major event. His parents became unlikely bank robbers.]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18911-michael_orr_the_1975_portland_timbers_ouch_my_groin.html It seems like no one played soccer in Portland before 1975. The next year, kids crowded parks and fields to try this undiscovered sport. My middle school was unprepared for the onslaught. “We ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19704-pulp_nonfiction_writer_phil_stanford_turns_to_dark_horse_comics_to_get_at_the_truth_of_portland%E2%8.html Phil Stanford made his name in Portland by needling the pompous and powerful with his columns for The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune. But...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19817-one_question_do_you_support_the_%E2%80%9Carts_tax%E2%80%9D_to_fund_schools_and_cultural_organization.html Portland voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to impose an annual $35-per-adult tax on city residents (with exemptions for those living in poverty) to help fund more arts teachers in Portland Publi]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19906-pollution_in_paradise_the_moment_oregon_began_to_go_green.html Oregon was born 50 years ago this week. Not the museum diorama of covered wagons and white missionaries, but the Oregon of modernity, a place that became a global model for protecting the enviro]]>