ALABASTER PIZZO Bogged down in two lawsuits over the matter, the City of Portland has released the names of roughly 600 employees represented by a public-employee union to an anti-labor group. As we reported last week, the city has freely released the names of union-represented employees in the past. But faced with a recent request […]
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The Highest-Earning Dead Celebs of 2017 Make More Than You Ever Will
The highest paid dead celeb made $75 million in the past year.
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Portland’s New Supportive Housing Push Could Cost $300 Million—Just for Starters
Bud Clark Commons, in Northwest Portland, is a high-profile supportive housing project. The mood in city hall was upbeat last week, when Portland City Council set into motion a plan that could see 2,000 units of deeply affordable housing sprout up in the city during the next decade. As we reported at the time, the […]
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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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The NYT Thinks Portland’s a Top-Four City for Amazon’s New HQ
JurgaR via GettyImages Growth-wary factions of Portland began their practiced grumbling last week, when retail monolith Amazon announced it’s looking to build a second headquarters, and Portland officials promptly decided to put in for consideration. Any Portlander who’s watched the transformations in Seattle in recent years has a personal sense of how life might change—or […]
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Want to Donate to People Fighting and Fleeing the Columbia Gorge Fire? Here Are Some Resources
whereinthegorge.com Wildfire continues to rip westward through the Columbia River Gorge, spanning something like 4,800 acres (and leaping the Columbia River), turning the sun into a crimson stain, and even obscuring the site of Multnomah Falls from their own parking lot. You’d usually be able to see Multnomah Falls from the parking lot. Today? Lots […]
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The City Could Extend Renter Protection Law’s Life By Six Months
Activists demonstrate against no-cause evictions outside of Multnomah County headquarters in April 2016. Dirk VanderHart As local landlords mount a renewed legal challenge to the relocation payments Portland’s requiring of landlords these days, the city’s getting ready to extend the law’s life-span. As soon as next month, the Portland Housing Bureau plans to put legislation […]
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Portland Is Going to Build a Massive Filtration Plant for Its Oft-Lauded Water Supply
The humble ultraviolet wave, it seems, never had much of a chance. From the first moments of a lengthy hearing Wednesday afternoon on what type of federally mandated water treatment Portland would choose, the cheapest option—a $105 million plant that would use UV rays to eliminate a parasite found rarely in Portland’s water—was painted as […]
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The City’s Going to Bat for Its Innovative, Maybe-Unconstitutional Ban on New Fuel Terminals
FRANÇOIS VIGNEAULT Portland’s about to try to salvage the nation’s strongest limitations on new fossil fuels facilities from the junk pile. This morning, City Council voted unanimously to appeal a July 19 opinion from the state’s Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) finding that strong restrictions on new oil and natural gas terminals in city […]
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Officials Want More Time To Scrutinize a New Water Treatment Plant—But A Decision Still Might Come Tomorrow
Getty Images With Portland City Council potentially prepared to approve a huge and expensive water filtration facility tomorrow afternoon, Commissioner Nick Fish and Mayor Ted Wheeler have asked for more time before a decision on the matter must be made. In a letter to the Oregon Health Authority today, Fish and Wheeler are requesting an […]
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As Portland Considers Two New Water Treatment Plants, Some Worry About “Rushed Process”
The Bull Run Watershed, source of most of Portland’s water. City of Portland As Portland City Council nears a vote that could result in not one but two brand new water treatment plants, some wonder what the rush is. In a move that surprised no one, the Portland Water Bureau last week filed a resolution […]
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Landlords Just Failed In Their Attempt to Dismantle Portland’s Renter Relocation Law
Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, who introduced the city’s renter relocation ordinance, speaking in February Dirk VanderHart Portland’s divisive rental relocation ordinance rides on—until October, at least. In a decision today, an Oregon tax judge ruled against landlords who’d claimed the new policy violates Oregon law and the state constitution. In a seven page decision, Judge Henry […]