City hall’s taking a summer nap—except for Commissioner Nick Fish
Sam Adams
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Pump it Up
Gas Prices Increase Transportation Funding Problems
Gas tax revenues are $1 million short for the city, leaving the Portland Department of Transportation strapped for cash.
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Elected Representatives
Elected Representatives: Aren’t these guys supposed to represent us?
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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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Thanks (for Nothing), Sam
Adams Goes Wishy-Washy on the Columbia River Crossing Project
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Then There Were Two
Amanda Fritz and Charles Lewis Enter the Ring
JUST OVER A WEEK AGO, there were 28 people vying for a job at city hall. But the May 20 primary election dashed a lot of dreams, and left three men—Sam Adams, Randy Leonard, and Nick Fish—with secure employment for the next few years. What’s undecided is who will be taking the seat Adams vacates, […]
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Tears, Cheers, and Beers
A Recap of Tuesday Night’s Election Results by the Mercury‘s Election Squad
IT WAS A PRIMARY ELECTION season marked, from the Democratic presidential contest on down, by excruciatingly close races—at least according to the pre-election day polls and punditry. According to poll numbers, Sho Dozono was holding Sam Adams under the 50 percent mark in the race for Portland mayor, and Steve Novick was consistently neck and […]
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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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Political Prudence
You have to give Commissioner Sam Adams some credit. He sure knows how to turn a politically driven evacuation plan into a chance to be seen as a ballsy leader. Last week, just before the city council was poised to take a final vote on the contentious plan to move the defunct Sauvie Island Bridge […]
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Fact Check
Scrutinizing the Candidates’ Junk Mail
If there’s one thing you can learn from this year’s truckload of campaign literature, it’s that candidates have a knack for saying a whole lot of nothing. In case you haven’t been to your mailbox lately, a landslide of fliers have been arriving at your home for the past week, as candidates try to grab […]
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Opposites Detract
What a sore loser. Mayor Tom Potter, upset that his political foe City Commissioner Sam Adams had rounded up three votes to move the old Sauvie Island Bridge to NW Flanders—where it will be the innovation connection for two halves of a bike and pedestrian boulevard—issued a statement on Thursday, April 24. “This bridge will […]
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Decisions, Decisions
Mayoral candidate Sho Dozono landed in hot water during an April 21 KGW-Oregonian televised debate, when opponent Sam Adams pointed out that Dozono “would have the city join the Joint Terrorism Task Force [JTTF].” If you weren’t paying attention when Mayor Tom Potter led the ballsy 2005 effort to yank Portland cops from the anti-terrorism […]