Waiting for Mayor-elect Sam Adams’ bureau assignments.
Dan Saltzman
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Whirlwind
Mayor-elect Sam Adams crowns Commissioner Dan Saltzman as police commissioner.
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Schnookered
Commissioner Sam Adams wants to hire a $35,000 consultant to make sure the César Chávez street-renaming process is “squeaky clean.”
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Crossing That Bridge
The city council gets spun both ways on the Columbia River Crossing big bridge project.
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Drama Queens
If Mayor Tom Potter had a thumbtack and a bulletin board, this stage of the city’s budget process would be exactly like the high school drama department’s spring musical auditions—with hopeful city commissioners counting down the hours until Potter’s budget decisions are posted. Some of the commissioners’ proposals will make the cut, while others will […]
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Dishonest Objections
“I’d rather invest that money in sidewalks, in safe ways to school, and in paving streets and reducing traffic congestion and improving traffic safety throughout the city,” Mayor Tom Potter said during last week’s city council meeting, following a heated discussion on whether or not to spend $5.5 million to move the retired Sauvie Island […]
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Dead in the Water
City’s WiFi Cloud Headed toward Evaporation
Remember that WiFi cloud that was supposed to blanket Portland by the end of 2008? Most residents of Portland are familiar with the story. In the summer of 2006, the city partnered with Silicon Valley start-up MetroFi and launched a free wireless internet service. The WiFi network was supposed to cover 95 percent of the […]
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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 […]
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Here We Poll Again
After two weeks of devoting this space to Sho Dozono’s $27,295 poll problem, I’d hoped to turn my attention to what the current city council has been up to. Not a whole lot, it turns out. Commissioner Sam Adams is bringing a resolution to the council on Wednesday, February 27, buying his staff more time […]