Hales and Cogen drop the posturing, strike a deal over crisis center.
City of Portland
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Hall Monitor
A Myth-Busting City Audit
The relationship between city and county is a muddy, murky myth.
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Weaker and Weeker
Recession Hits Local Newspapers Hard
Willamette Week and Just Out hold on for dear life.
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“Turned Out onto the Streets.”
Portland’s Budget Crisis Will Impact Neediest
Leave town, buy a gun, or lobby to raise taxes: Portland’s budget
crisis… and you.
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Not in Our Backyard!
Businesses Bemoan Lack of Outreach
ON MONDAY MORNING, Resolutions Northwest, a mediation group contracted by the city, hosted a meeting with local business owners to draft a Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA) over the proposed day laborer site on NE Martin Luther King Jr. and Everett Street. Many of the business owners directly adjacent to the site, however, expressed anger and […]
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Bridge to Disaster
A Proposed New 12-Lane Bridge over the Columbia River Will Cost $4.2 Billion, Increase Traffic, and Do Little to Alleviate Climate Change. What the Hell Are We Thinking?
A man driving a gray Toyota pickup truck seems frantic; veering in and out of lanes trying to pass other traffic on the Interstate Bridge. His furtive moves don’t do him much good—moments later, as we crest the green steel bridge headed south into Portland, we’re greeted with flickering brake lights. Traffic slows to a […]
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A Trail of Tears
NE Commuters Want a Safer Route to Work
EMPLOYEES AT a NE Columbia music distribution center are demanding safety improvements on the trail they use to walk from the bus stop to their work. Two years ago, CD Baby Human Resources Director Craig Hennecke bought yearly TriMet bus passes for all the company’s 100 employees, in an environmentally friendly effort to discourage them […]