ANOTHER BELIEVER / CC 3.0 The City of Portland is preparing a lawsuit in order to avoid releasing the names of members of a public-employee union to an anti-labor group, after District Attorney Rod Underhill’s office deemed those records are public. A resolution Portland City Council will vote on next week would give city attorneys […]
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Mayor Ted Wheeler is Looking to Buy Mobile Bathrooms for Southeast Portland’s Homeless
Here’s what restroom trailers look like in Denver. City and County of Denver Step aside food carts, public restrooms might become the latest Portland sensation on wheels. Backing up a hint he dropped in a recent press conference, Mayor Ted Wheeler is mulling spending nearly $160,000 to purchase and operate two mobile restroom trailers meant […]
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Portland is Plotting to Set Aside 2,000 Apartments For Its Hardest-to-Reach Homeless Residents
Bud Clark Commons—perhaps Portland’s best known permanent supportive housing development. Sometime in the next six months or so, local officials are going to present a case for how Portland can dramatically increase housing for its most down-and-out individuals. In a unanimous and long-portended vote this morning, the Portland City Council voted to order up a […]
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Mayoral Adviser Andrea Valderrama Is Running for Dan Saltzman’s Council Seat
This is an old photo. The race for Dan Saltzman’s soon-vacant city council seat has a new entrant. Andrea Valderrama—once a staffer for former Commissioner Steve Novick who currently works in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office—announced today she’ll be running for Saltzman’s Position Three seat next May. She joins local NAACP president and former legislator Jo […]
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The City Finally Has an Idea of How to Spend Its Housing Bond
Here’s What You Need to Know
Here’s what you need to know.
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Portland’s Chipping in $50,000 to Help Local DACA Recipients
The City of Portland is spending $50,000 to help DACA recipients re-apply for protections and get legal advice. In a unanimous vote this afternoon, the Portland City Council approved a grant that will reimburse advocacy groups that have been helping “Dreamers” pay the $495 fee to re-apply for protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood […]
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Pee Bargains: The City Has Decided It Wants Authority to Drug Test Union Workers
Gracey Zhang CITY EMPLOYEES from six labor unions filled City Council chambers last week to warn that a strike might be on the horizon. Rattling off a list of concerns, members of the city’s largest union group, the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU), formally declared an impasse in ongoing bargaining over a new three-year […]
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The City Extends Its Strongest Renter Protections—But Passes on Closing a Big Loophole
No surprises here: The City of Portland is still under a formal housing state of emergency declaration, and the city’s policy requiring landlords to pay relocation fees rides on. Well before an hours-long hearing on those two proposals this morning, it was clear Portland City Council would extend the housing emergency by 18 months—a move […]
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Better Naito Is Going Away for the Year. Go Celebrate Better Naito.
Dirk VanderHart The Portland Business Alliance will mop its dewy brow and breathe a ragged sigh of relief next week, when the “Better Naito” project comes to a close for 2017. The yearly conversion of a single north-bound traffic lane on Naito Parkway into a path for cyclists and pedestrians has caused unceasing whinging from […]
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Monsanto Tried to Kill a Lawsuit Over Portland River Contamination. It Failed.
Last year, Portland piled on to a group of West Coast cities who say a precursor of agribusiness giant Monsanto tainted their waterways. Monsanto promptly argued the city has no right to file suit. Monsanto was wrong. Late last week, a federal judge ruled that Portland has standing to sue the company (and two others) […]
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Portland Once Again Finds a Parasite in its Water Supply
Heavy rains returned to Portland last week. Now cryptosporidium has, too. The Portland Water Bureau announced this afternoon that it detected crypto—a parasitic microorganism that in some forms can lead to serious health problems in humans—in a water sample taken from the Bull Run watershed on September 24. “At this time, the bureau and public […]
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Mayor Ted Wheeler Wants to Extend Portland’s Housing State of Emergency by 18 Months
Portland’s housing state of emergency might get its longest extension to-date, if a proposal Mayor Ted Wheeler is cooking up moves forward. Tomorrow, Wheeler’s office plans to submit an ordinance for council consideration that would push an expiration date for the city’s housing emergency status out 18 months, spokesperson Michael Cox says. The ordinance would […]