The policy, intended to bolster ride-share driver wages, would cap how much a ride-share company could take for each ride.

Two elevators that allow cyclists and people with mobility challenges to use the pedestrian bridge over train tracks in Southeast Portland are both out of service.

Tenants have described the same issues to WW in several Home Forward buildings: a permissive culture that allows other tenants’ behavior to go unaddressed.

Skye Brocker-Knapp, the director of Portland Solutions, wrote to the Portland City Council that up to 134 beds currently operated by Sunstone Way would be closing in the coming months.

Home Forward, the city’s housing authority, last week divulged more information to its board of commissioners about its high vacancy rates, nonpayment of rent and cash flow woes.

A policy intended to dampen human trafficking and sexual exploitation particularly along 82nd Avenue last week hit opposition from some councilors who worried that it would penalize small business owners and drive exploitation further into the shadows, making it harder to identify and help victims.

A Texas consulting firm led a session in which councilors expressed their policy hopes and dreams.

A series of WW stories over the past year revealed how the project’s leaders made lofty and dubious promises to state and local elected officials to secure money to purchase a headquarters in Old Town.

Little, if any, discussion addressed the difficult question of what councilors would seek to cut

Peterson will be leaving her voter-elected position nine months before her second term is over.