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JUST OVER A WEEK AGO, there were 28 people vying for a job at city hall. But the May 20 primary election dashed a lot of dreams, and left three men—Sam Adams, Randy Leonard, and Nick Fish—with secure employment for the next few years. What’s undecided is who will be taking the seat Adams vacates, […]
It takes an election, apparently, to help the city council pass a budget. Within days of Commissioner Sam Adams‘ victory over Mayor Tom Potter-endorsed Sho Dozono, tensions between Adams and the mayor seem to have melted. While they were on opposite ends of a budget standoff last week, by Friday afternoon, May 23, the two—plus […]
When Dr. Gregg Coodley saw Measure 50 fail last year—and, with it, hopes for a statewide kids’ health care plan—he decided to do something to fill the gap locally. “There’s no hope nationally, and no hope statewide,” says Coodley, from his desk at Southwest Portland’s Fanno Creek Clinic. “What can we do that has a […]
Amy J. Ruiz, Matt Davis, Wm. Steven Humphrey, Marjorie Skinner, Alison Hallett, Erik Henriksen, Courtney Ferguson, Ned Lannamann, Patrick Alan Coleman, Jonathan Shapiro, and Drew Gemmer IT WAS A PRIMARY ELECTION season marked, from the Democratic presidential contest on down, by excruciatingly close races—at least according to the pre-election day polls and punditry. According to poll numbers, Sho Dozono was holding Sam Adams under the 50 percent mark in the race for Portland mayor, and Steve Novick was consistently neck and […]
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