Mayor Sam Adams plans to recommend 12 lanes for the Columbia River Crossing this afternoon, hoping to salvage his “green” reputation by convening a cross-river committee to monitor all the concrete, once it’s been built. Adams has revealed his choice in an opinion article in the Oregonian this morning, co-written with Vancouver mayor, Royce Pollard. […]
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Adams Gives Interview To Supporter
Sam Adams has given an in-depth interview to Hollie Teal, the blogger who organized the rally outside city hall last month. Teal admits that she doesn’t exactly consider herself an objective journalist: I received warnings that he was a cutthroat politician, that he was arrogant, and that he might be trying to manipulate me. It’s […]
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This Week in City Planning: Not Your Typical Skullduggery
City Council’s unanimous adoption of the East Portland Action Plan last week was a total love fest. The Council held a special meeting Wednesday night out at Midland Library and 125 people showed up to listen to the details of the plan, which okays $500,000 for development projects out in historically-neglected East Portland. While neighbors […]
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Adams Won’t Convene Committee On Bridge, After All
Reports yesterday that the mayor plans to convene a committee on the Columbia River Crossing may have been premature. City hall sources say that Adams is in ongoing negotiations over lane numbers for the bridge, and that the motion to convene a “council” for the Columbia River Crossing was placed on the the council agenda […]
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Saltzman Still Likes Sit/Lie Law
Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman has responded to news last week of a judge finding the controversial sidewalk obstruction law unconstitutional. “I think we’re still reviewing that decision and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the specific case,” Saltzman says. “But in the larger sense, I did support the sidewalk obstruction ordinance, I […]
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Council To Pay More Than $100k To Pervocop Victims
City council is scheduled to vote on Wednesday to pay out $105,205 to Breanna Wyatt and Kaitlin Johnson, two women who were alleged to have been sexually harassed by former Portland cop John Wood. PERVOCOP: LIKE ROBOCOP, ONLY PERVERTED, NOT ROBOTIC…AND…AN OCTOPUS… Wood, who resigned from the police bureau in November, 2006, is alleged to […]
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Adams Convenes Committee On CRC Bridge
Faced with increasing pressure, even from his own former council ally, Randy Leonard, to come up with a recommendation on number of lanes and tolling for the Columbia River Crossing, it appears that Mayor Sam Adams has taken a leaf out of former mayor, Tom Potter’s (never written, never published) “art of Potteresque leadership” book. […]
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Judge Rules Sit/Lie Law Unconstitutional
A downtown judge has ruled the city’s controversial sidewalk obstruction ordinance unconstitutional. Judge Michael McShane made the ruling yesterday about the part of the ordinance that requires people to keep their personal belongings within two feet. “I found that an ordinary person would not understand from the statute that mundane and everyday behavior would be […]
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Sneak Peak at Sam Adam’s Five Year Plan
Warning: This post about Mayor Sam Adams does not mention sex, alleged sex or Beau Breedlove’s totally hot intern body even once. Instead it focuses on Adam’s financial policy. I hope that’s cool with everyone. Next Friday afternoon, according to City Club, host of Mayor Sam Adam’s State of the City address, “Mayor Adams will […]
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Good Mid-Morning, Wonkery!!
There’s just so much wonking happening this week, I can’t contain myself until next Monday… BIAS-BASED POLICING!!! The Independent Police Review’s Citizens’ Review Committee has released a report on biased-based policing complaints this morning. “The report found that IPR investigators are generally recording allegations accurately and treating complainants courteously,” says the hard-hitting press release from […]
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Adams Critics: You’re a Joke…
“Portland has been reduced to a punchline,” says KPAM host Victoria Taft, who repeated the joke about minors enjoying a Sam Adams in Portland, before telling the mayor, “my kid is almost the same age as that kid you had sex with. You’ve got US senators who don’t want to be in the same picture […]
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Breedlove Poses Nude
From the Unzipped blog: “Beau Breedlove was extremely professional at his first erotic photo shoot in Los Angeles this past weekend,” Unzipped’s online editor, Sean Carnage, told Advocate.com. “He came to L.A. to prove that the Portland scandal does not define his sexuality. The photos portray the real Beau—a confident and extremely handsome young man […]