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Meet Your Portland 2024 Mayoral Candidates

Here’s who wants to be Portland’s next mayor.
Avatar photoAvatar photo Courtney Vaughn and Taylor Griggs

Updated: October 25 Under Portland’s revised city charter, the mayor will serve in a largely administrative role, overseeing day-to-day operations alongside a city administrator. The mayor will be voted on by all city voters, while the council will be elected by district. The charter change is a shift from Portland’s longstanding form of government, which […]

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Meet the Portland City Council Candidates: District 4

These candidates are running in the district composed of Portland’s west side and some Southeast neighborhoods.
Avatar photo Courtney Vaughn

Updated: Oct. 22 Thanks to a charter reform measure passed by voters in 2022, Portland is getting a new form of government, and it will come with a brand new districting system. In November 2024, Portlanders will vote for City Council members in one of four districts across the city, with three councilors per district. […]

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Theater Review: Wicked Found Wanting

The beloved musical is stuck in 2003, which feels a little weird two decades later.
Avatar photo TJ Acena

The Broadway musical adaptation of Wicked sheds a lot of the book’s pointed political commentary, we don’t have much hope for it showing up in the movie either.
Wishing more of the Wicked’s pointed political commentary had ended up in the musical—not a lot of hope for the movies either—but still having a nice time.

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SAVAGE LOVE: The Rich Are Different

“I am incredibly rich, sexy, and have lots of lovers. Whatever will I do??“
Avatar photo Dan Savage

I am a 45-year-old woman married to a wonderful 43-year-old man. We just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. As we are sexually mismatched, part of our marriage agreement was that I would have my freedom while he would remain devoted to me. How has that worked out? Wonderfully, for the most part. While my husband’s […]

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Tenants Take Cues From Labor Unions in Effort to Remedy Property Management Issues

Portland lacks a formal process for renters to form a tenant union, but residents at one apartment complex say they’ve found leverage by banding together.
Avatar photo Abe Asher

Tenants at The Russell, a 68-unit apartment building in Northeast Portland, had a problem: the elevator in their building was out, and Trion Living, the company that owns the building, wasn’t in a hurry to do anything about it.  “We just wouldn’t hear from them,” Nick Narsing, a software engineer who has lived in the […]

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Auditor’s Office: Gonzalez Violated Campaign Finance Rules and Tried to Obstruct Investigation

A re-determination by the Portland Auditor’s Office finds city commissioner used taxpayer funds to benefit his campaign. Investigators say Gonzalez and his staffers lied about key documents and tried to interfere with the investigation.
Avatar photo Courtney Vaughn

Updated: 11:18 am Monday, Oct. 22 Rene Gonzalez, one of three Portland city commissioners currently running for mayor, violated campaign finance laws by using taxpayer money for a consulting firm to help edit his Wikipedia page earlier this year, the Auditor’s Office says. The updated determination comes after a Portland Auditor’s Office investigation previously found […]

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Mikki Gillette’s Hero’s / Healer’s Journey Begins With a Content Warning

 No More Candy is charming and adorable, even as its characters work through very heavy traumas.
Avatar photo Suzette Smith

The first two things you’ll notice about No More Candy—the latest from prolific local playwright Mikki Gillette—are 1) the queer cuties on the cover of the program and 2) the content warning.  These are actually apt indicators of what to expect because the production is somehow charming and adorable, even as its characters work through […]

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Portland State University Faculty Layoffs Spark Outrage

After faculty received notice of layoffs, PSU’s professor union protested at the university president’s office. Faculty allege administrative bloat and bad budgeting are fueling budget cuts.
Avatar photo Kevin Foster

Professors at Portland State University say the college is mishandling its budget, after PSU sent layoff notices to roughly 90 staffers Tuesday, October 15. More than 7 percent of the 1,200 unionized staff from the PSU American Association of University Professors (AAUP) received notice of forthcoming layoffs. In response, over 100 members of PSU AAUP […]

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This Week In Portland Food News

A Vegan Goth Cafe, Pupusas, and Creole Fried Chicken
Avatar photo EverOut Staff

Alexa, play “Apple” by Charli xcx: This week brings caramel apple cocktails, Granny Smith doughnuts, and even an Apple Fest at Providore Fine Foods on Sunday. Plus, learn about a new Salvadorean/Mexican spot, a Haitian restaurant, and a goth-themed coffee shop. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide. NEW OPENINGS & RETURNS Bicho’sOwner […]

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ODOT Denied $750 Million Federal Grant for Rose Quarter Expansion

Advocates hope the financial quandary will prompt ODOT to rethink the scale of the I-5 project through central Portland.
Avatar photo Taylor Griggs

Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) officials say the state transportation department didn’t receive a coveted $750 million federal Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant it hoped would help fund its plan to expand and cap I-5 through Portland’s Rose Quarter.  While ODOT leaders say they’ll seek other means of funding for the entire Rose Quarter […]

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Where to Get Food for Halloween 2024 in Portland

Mochi Donuts, Ice Cream Sundaes, and More
Avatar photo EverOut Staff

It’s almost Halloween, and there’s no shortage of hair-raising ways to celebrate, with treats like activated charcoal chocolate pies from The Pie Spot and “horrorchata” donuts from Mikiko Mochi Donuts. Read on for details on the most frightening food and drink specials so you can plot a delicious month full of thrills and chills. For […]

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In a Stealth Move, Portland City Council Signals Intent to Sever Homelessness Agreement With Multnomah County

Without buy-in from Commissioner Carmen Rubio or Mayor Ted Wheeler, three city leaders asked for an ordinance to cancel a recently renewed intergovernmental agreement.
Avatar photo Courtney Vaughn

Note: This story has been corrected to fix a typo in the amount of Supportive Housing Services tax revenue taken in. It was supposed to be a routine update with no vote.  A week after a joint meeting between Portland City Council and the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, the City Council met to outline […]

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