Portland is facing an historic election involving a new voting system and an unusually high number of candidates. Journalists at The Oregonian/OregonLive and Oregon Public Broadcasting share a goal of ensuring that Portland voters have the information they need to make informed choices, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man running for a seat on the Portland City Council has been fined $77,000 for accepting and failing to report a steep discount on campaign office rent.
Portland City Council agrees to fund part of Oregon Sustainability CenterLindsey O'Brien
It took quite some time for the complicated mathematical reductions of “Ranked Choice” voting to arrive at the final three winners in Portland’s first City Council races in Districts 3 and 4, in which the fields were choked with candidates. In the end, in District 3, the winners were s...
Bruce had previously been a member of the Hillsboro City Council, and was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2010, but lost a bid in 2012 to be the Oregon Labor Commissioner. Age: 55 Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, USA Dustin Waldron American football player Dustin Waldron is an ...
avoiding Oregon's personal income tax -- Washington doesn't have one. Hales also took credit during the primary for a massive school bailout that happened after he left the Portland City Council. His campaign also submitted a letter to a North Portland newspaper in April that ...
“Adams…cutting through City Council oppositionbyadvising the mayor to declare a series of emergency orders that cleared campersfrom slices of the city’s streetscape. Adams annoyed other regional elected officials by craftinga plan for six sanctioned campswith theend goal of banning sidewalk camping...
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Just five months ago, Portland City Council announced that the city was going to have an unexpected $62 million surplus. Earlier that year, the mayor was begging people to come back downtown to shop in stores and eat in restaurants.
“In the end, Watkins delivered an acquittal without consulting the students — the 7- and 8-year-olds left before the trial concluded. But the judge’s off-the-cuff overture to the school children became the talk of the courthouse in downtown Oregon City.”(#8 – #9) ...