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One North Oregon Coast couple learned the hard way. Here’s what they’re doing about it.
“If you disrupt the schools of thousands of Portland families at once, you also give thousands of families a reason to reconsider whether PPS is still working for them.”
Candidates for the Oregon Legislature give their diagnosis.
It’s hard to beat a tasty dish of stewed greens.
At its peak, the pizza chain had slice shops in New York, Seattle, Eugene and across Portland and Beaverton.
A quarter-century in, the local zine fest is bigger and better than ever.
A few weeks ago, it looked like the board tasked with giving lawmakers the template for government-run universal health care plan would get until December to finish its big report. It turns out it had to move faster.
The nonprofit Bird Conservation Oregon named Danielle Moser and Sristi Kamal the winners of the first annual Bob Sallinger Conservation Advocacy Award on Oct. 3.
School Board members could also choose a third option: defer a decision and maintain the status quo.
Business and labor groups this week launched a political action committee backing moderate candidates running for the Portland City Council and Multnomah County Chair.
Oregon has the nation’s second-highest rate of homelessness, yet the state keeps funding affordable housing that costs far more than the national average.
Humdinger of an interview with the gay Nevadan “white knight” who’s been buying Portland skyscrapers & says he’ll pay for “pretty much any” internal improvement a tenant asks for.
If I understand the law, he has a huge tax incentive to spend >$35m on those by 1/1/28
The Ground, a McMinnville farm and luxury hotel and restaurant group, announced its purchase Oct. 7.
The Northeast Sandy Boulevard building also houses One Moto Cafe and Rip’s Co. Skateshop, making it an action sports destination.
Top district officials took issue with the audit’s scope and findings, with PPS’ senior chief of operations disputing “the tenor of the report’s narrative and frequent implication of impropriety.”
Portland voters will see only one city measure on their ballots this fall. Measure 26-267, if approved, would create a participatory budgeting program that gives Portlanders discretion over how to spend an amount equivalent to 2% of the city’s general fund (roughly $16 million) every year.
“I’m just not risk averse. I’m not afraid of investing in businesses that I believe in—in things that I believe in.”
At a Tuesday meeting, the seven members of the School Board faced the reality that, for many Portlanders, the school closure pill won’t go down easily.
Here are the biggest unanswered questions the team and the city face.
Her new play follows a trans femme support group in the 2010s as Portland is simultaneously gentrified and queerified.