“Superfund cleanup has justice concerns, whether it’s for fishers, Wasco County farmers or front-line communities reliant on the Willamette River.”

The headaches and stress for numerous patients and providers were, according to some, quite predictable in the troubled early weeks of Providence Health Plan’s outsourcing arrangement with the tech company Collective Health.

“If those services are important we should be doing them in-house with full accountability. Throwing money at nonprofits for essential services is just outsourcing.”

Multnomah County is struggling to replace shelter space lost when accounting discrepancies prompted it to stop paying rent for homeless families at Rockwood Tower.

“Only other questions I have is who is starting the class action and where can I sign up?”

Its government contracts are shrinking and costs are rising, Sunstone Way told staff in a memo. One cost the nonprofit appears to deem mission critical: billboard advertising.

If any of them worked at a company they would be fired for making a deal as bad and one-sided as this.”

For certain groups of people at least, it is markedly more difficult to get primary care in Portland than in other major cities.

Annie Bloom’s Books, Broadway Books and Powell’s City of Books told us what their No. 1-selling books were for the month of February.

A Rockwood man might support Moda Center’s renovation if they throw in an ice rink.