Taxpayers won’t be sending a dozen local officials to Texas, after all.
Loretta Smith
Still Waters Prevail
Voters douse the Portland Public Water District, enthusiastically embrace incumbents
THE OUTSIDERS WANT IN
Voting is easy in Oregon. We’ve made it easier.
This Old ‘House
Questions emerge in the county’s scramble for a new courthouse.
Rooms for Rent
Jail overcrowding be damned, the county wants more prisoners.
Hall Monitor
In Portland, getting away with on-the-job breast fondling.
An Unsatisfying Answer
Hales’ “strict” weeklong suspension of a policy aide is immediately ripped as too gentle.
Free Parking? Nope!
Some of Charlie Hales’ staffers don’t like to move their cars.
Cheer Up, Losers!
THE HYSTERICAL WEEK leading up to election day was set to the tempo of a booming chant: “Doom. Doom. Doom. Doom!” While the midterm elections were grim for Democrats nationally and progressive issues locally—hey, cheer up loser! We deliver the good news along with the bad. BAD NEWS: As of press time, many of the […]
