Grim budget forecast threatens the city’s favorite budget cheat.
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Casting Away the Shadows
Bad Financial Forecast Threatens City’s Favorite Budget Cheat
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Down to the Bone
Mayor Warns City: Prepare for Deep Budget Cuts
Mayor Sam Adams warns Portland bureaus: Prepare for deep, deep budget cuts.
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Cake for Everybody!
Mayor Sam Adams Slices Up Portland’s $26 Million Budget Surplus
Mayor Sam Adams serves up Portland’s $26 million budget surplus.
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Can You Spare a Dime?
Cops Could Bust City’s Budget
The police bureau’s audacious budget request.
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Breaking the Bank?
Hidden Costs in New Police Pact
The new police contract has some hidden costs.
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Gearing Up
How Will the City Fund its $600 Million Bike Plan?
Bikes vs. cars? How about bikes vs. money?
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Dis-Connected
Cuts Force Homeless Project to Change—But in What Direction?
No one is really sure where a model homeless program is headed.
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The Morning After
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 […]
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Shadow Budget
Adams’ and Leonard’s End Run Around Mayor Potter
THE CITY COUNCIL was supposed to vote on Mayor Tom Potter’s proposed budget at their Wednesday morning meeting. But the May 14 meeting may be a showdown, instead. Thanks to a few omissions in Potter’s budget—namely funding for transportation and arts-related projects, and funds to implement a recent council mandate to move the Portland Development […]
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Hall Monitor
Budget Bust
You know that feeling when you reach for your wallet, go for that $20 you’re sure is in there, and discover that you’ve only got a fiver after—oh, right, you forgot—going out the night before? That’s pretty much how the city council’s feeling lately. The commissioners have split into teams to dig through bureaus’ budget […]