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“It adds fuel to the argument that government is all about waste, fraud and abuse.”

An agency spokesman says some of the staff “volunteered at [Mathews’] campaign booth” while in Orlando.

Home Forward, the city of Portland’s housing authority, has declined to provide any details about its CEO’s attendance of a captive insurance conference in Hawaii in October of 2024.

The labor union that represents 205 staff at Home Forward says it has “no confidence or trust in leadership” of the agency after WW reported on CEO Ivory Mathews’ travel spending pattern over the last three years.

Mayor Keith Wilson on Monday afternoon released his $8.5 billion proposed city budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The police union says the changes must be bargained before a policy is passed. Councilor Sameer Kanal disagrees.

A Portland firefighter is in custody and faces felony charges related to child sex abuse stemming from a case last summer.

The Portland City Council on Wednesday evening passed a housing package that directs $56 million in unused housing dollars to rent assistance, a revolving loan fund, rent buy-downs for affordable housing providers, eviction prevention and gap financing for a few specific housing projects.

Governor Tina Kotek on Thursday afternoon vetoed a controversial public meetings bill that received bipartisan support in the spring legislative session, but which public watchdog groups said would greatly undermine transparency and accountability in local government.

Among Ivory Mathews’ work trips, this one stood out.

Critics say the bill is an affront to Oregon legislators’ purported commitment to transparency.

Prosper Portland executive director Cornell Wesley on Wednesday night announced that the agency had withdrawn its choice of facilitator for a community advisory committee after backlash over the pick.