While most Portlanders may be spending their weekends doing other things, the folks at Recall Sam Adams.com have written an open letter to City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, asking her to place a vote of confidence resolution on the council agenda. Fritz stood up to a couple of the “recall Sam” crowd in council last Wednesday, […]
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The Ruiz Questions, Part Four…
On January 20, during an interview with the mayor’s chief of staff, Tom Miller, and his sustainability and planning policy adviser, former Mercury news editor, Amy Ruiz, Miller mentioned a list of applicants for Ruiz’s job, which had been prepared, in rough form, by a mayoral staffer. The list showed all the applicants for the […]
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Lars Larson Takes On The Mayor
Radical Jihadist radio personality Lars Larson took three minutes at this morning’s council session to ask Mayor Sam Adams a few questions about the Breedlove scandal. LARSON: “I’d like to see the city cleaned up…” “Why should any of these commissioners believe anything you say?” asked Larson. “Why did you lie about your behavior?” Larson […]
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Lars Larson To Address City Council?
9:30 tomorrow, from the current city council agenda: 88 Request of Lars Larson to address Council regarding Mayor Adams legal issues We’ll be there, of course.
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The Best Speech You’ve Ever Heard…
Last week I reported on city council’s efforts to build a homeless resource access center downtown. Don’t worry, nothing’s actually happening—it’s still two years from being ready, just as it was two years ago. But there was another aspect to the city council hearing on the subject, that I’ve just not been able to let […]
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Public Wants 12 Lanes For Columbia River Crossing
75 people have signed up this afternoon at a public hearing on the Columbia River Crossing, here at City Hall. Council was expected to make a tentative decision on how many lanes the bridge should have, next week, but Adams just announced that they’re going to extend the hearing until late February, so there’s time […]
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What Goes Around Comes…Er…Around…
Spotted by a vigilant reader of today’s New York Times: Editors’ Note An article on Saturday about Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, who is under fire after admitting that in 2005 he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old intern, included a quotation from Christopher Stowell, the artistic director for the Oregon Ballet Theater, […]
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Homeless Access Center May Now Open 2011
Back in 2007, I wrote a feature about the city’s planned Resource Access Center for the homeless, when it was expected that the center would be opened in “fingers-crossed, 2009.” Here’s the latest design:RESOURCE ACCESS CENTER: Housing Authority of Portland Projects Manager Mike Andrews Presents To Council This Morning… Well, it’s 2009. And now, those […]
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Adams Interrupts Public Questions On Fitness To Lead
Mayor Sam Adams may find it more difficult than expected to do the city’s business, if this morning’s council session is anything to go by. The second item on this morning’s agenda was the appointment of two new members to the cops’ Citizens’ Review Committee: Barbara Anderson and Rochelle Silver now join the group. But […]
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Sam Adams’ Spokesman Resigns
Sam Adams’ director of communications, Wade Nkrumah, has resigned. As far as this reporter is aware, it’s the first resignation from Adams’ office—I asked Nkrumah yesterday at 5pm if anybody had resigned, and he said “no.” Adams’ office is not commenting on the departure, which leaves an $80,000 position vacant for someone with a specialty […]
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Scratch That Part About Questions On City Business
It turns out Mayor Sam Adams isn’t answering any questions at all. Pursued up the stairs to his office, after this morning’s council meeting, Adams did not respond to an Oregonian reporters’s repeated questions about his schedule today as it relates to city business. Instead, he responded, twice, “I’m happy to answer questions about city […]
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Adams: “I’m Happy To Answer Questions About City Business…”
Mayor Sam Adams has returned to work this morning, having to make his way through a media scrum to get into council chambers for a joint meeting with the Metro Regional Council on how many lanes the Columbia River Crossing should have. ADAMS: REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RESTROOMS, SMOOCHING… SCENE OF THE SMOOCH: ADAMS […]