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City Council Entrance Interview: Loretta Smith
A former Multnomah County commissioner seeks to represent East Portland.
District 1
City Council Entrance Interview: Timur Ender
An Eastside dad of three wants to make sure kids have access to swim lessons.
City Council Entrance Interview: Candace Avalos
After helping craft a new government, she’s taking a second shot at serving in it.
City Council Entrance Interview: Jamie Dunphy
He wants to end the city’s death spiral of good legislation and bad implementation.
City Council Entrance Interview: Terrence Hayes
A formerly incarcerated business owner whose cousin died at the hands of Portland police is running to represent East Portland.
City Council Entrance Interview: Steph Routh
This East Portlander wants city government to be boring again.
District 2
City Council Entrance Interview: Michelle DePass
A city employee wants to make sure the new council is transparent and accountable.
City Council Entrance Interview: Mariah Hudson
She wants her son to be able to safely ride TriMet with his tuba.
City Council Entrance Interview: Marnie Glickman
She hopes to bring three decades of government know-how to City Hall.
City Council Entrance Interview: Tiffani Penson
Raised and rooted in Northeast Portland, a 19-year city employee wants to represent District 2.
City Council Entrance Interview: Nabil Zaghloul
A social service coordinator seeks to chart a path forward.
City Council Entrance Interview: James Armstrong
An eye care business owner and forensic accountant has seen it all.
City Council Entrance Interview: Mike Marshall
In recovery from addiction, he seeks to help his city out of its drug crisis.
City Council Entrance Interview: Nat West
He’s driven your bus and made your hard cider. Now he wants to represent you at City Hall.
City Council Entrance Interview: Elana Pirtle-Guiney
She wants to do more than just consult on the future of the city.
City Council Entrance Interview: Debbie Kitchin
She wants to hold office in the government she helped construct.
District 3
City Council Entrance Interview: Steve Novick
He seeks a return to City Council, bearing a bevy of policy innovations.
City Council Entrance Interview: Tiffany Koyama Lane
She sees all of Portland’s problems trickle into her third grade classroom.
City Council Entrance Interview: Angelita Morillo
Famous on TikTok, she’d rather create a sanitation bureau than go viral.
District 4
City Council Entrance Interview: Eric Zimmerman
After tours of duty in Iraq and county offices, he’s ready to get Portland out of crisis mode.
City Council Entrance Interview: Tony Morse
He’s walked the road to recovery, and now he wants to guide Portland along the same path.
City Council Entrance Interview: Bob Weinstein
A former Alaska mayor wants to help steer a rudderless Portland City Hall.
City Council Entrance Interview: Sarah Silkie
A city employee has had enough of declarations from a disconnected City Council.
City Council Entrance Interview: Chad Lykins
A chess coach is ready to use evidence-based research to curb addiction in Portland.
City Council Entrance Interview: Olivia Clark
She says Portland has a blueprint for housing construction, drafted during World War II.
City Council Entrance Interview: Stan Penkin
He says serving on the City Council is a natural progression of the work he’s done for decades.
City Council Entrance Interview: Eli Arnold
A Portland cop is running for City Council because he thinks city leaders have bungled every major crisis so far.
City Council Entrance Interview: Mitch Green
The westside economist wants the city to buy real estate for affordable housing.