Hey Oregonian! This isn’t breaking news. This is news you read on Blogtown yesterday. About an incident that happened last week. Sort of reminds me of the time we reported that the Cesar Chavez rename was back in play–it was in our paper on June 26–and you gave it lots of play (and added practically […]
Amy J. Ruiz
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City Council Tosses Half a Million Bucks at Police Overtime Problem
This morning, Police Chief Rosie Sizer hit up the city council for $510,776 to cover cop overtime. This is about “making hard choices,” Sizer says, as she tries to juggle a short staffed police force with things like cops’ vacation requests and “the visits that will occur with the fall election cycle,” i.e. providing security […]
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Good Morning, News!
The new iPhone is out today, and this cranky nerd at the Washington Post says don’t buy it! (Whatever, I’m too busy playing Super Monkey Ball on my now old iPhone to care what that guy says.) Top McCain economic adviser: “was quoted Thursday as saying that the United States was only in a ‘mental […]
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Commissioner Nick Fish Names a Chief of Staff
Via Street Roots comes news that Commissioner Nick Fish has appointed Sam Chase as his chief of staff. I’ve got calls in for comment, but briefly, Chase is (was?) executive director of the Community Development Network/Oregon Opportunity Network, a coalition of nonprofit housing developers. In 2006, he ran for state senate, and had Fish’s endorsement. […]
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Hall Monitor
Crossing That Bridge
The city council gets spun both ways on the Columbia River Crossing big bridge project.
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Back in the Ring
Attorneys Argue over Domestic Partnership Referendum in Federal Appeals Court
Gay rights group and foes take the fight for domestic partnerships to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Columbia River Crossing Hearing at City Council
6:28 pm update: It’s unanimous. They all voted for it. 6:06 pm update: Time to discuss and vote, after the cut. —– 5:30 update: We’ve only got a few more folks on the public testimony list, then stay tuned for council deliberation and voting! That’s all after the cut. —– (Originally posted at 2 pm) […]
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Today at City Hall: Columbia River Crossing
I caught Commissioner Nick Fish heading into this morning’s city council session (during which the council will get an earful on the imminent eviction of Peterson’s convenience store–more on that later from Matt Davis, who’s here covering the pile of protesters, a surprising number of whom are gray-haired little old ladies). I’ve been trying to […]
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Columbia River Crossing Rumor of the Day: ODOT Bullying the Council?
With less than 24 hours to go before the council hearing on the Columbia River Crossing, the hot gossip around city hall is this: The Oregon Department of Transportation is threatening the city council. As in, vote for the CRC’s locally preferred option tomorrow, “or [ODOT] won’t fund anything else” in the city of Portland, […]
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Domestic Partnership Appeal at Pioneer Courthouse
We’re about thirty minutes away from the 20-minute arguments on either side of the federal appeal over signatures to put a domestic partnership referendum on the fall ballot. Austin Nimocks, attorney for the anti-gay coalition, is sitting in a wing-back chair here in the wifi-equipped courtroom annex, scribbling in his notes. I’d love to snap […]
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Columbia River Crossing Press Conference
We’re in Piccolo Park on this beautiful morning with folks from 1000 Friends of Oregon, Environment Oregon, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Coalition for a Liveable Future and other environmental, biking, and land use groups to talk about tomorrow’s city council vote on the Columbia River Crossing. “We are not here today to oppose progress,” says […]