Budget-breaking practices allow some sheriff’s deputies to double their pay.
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Sgt. Diana Olsen has occasionally been the face of the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. She heads up the sheriff’s search and
rescue team, and when a 7-year-old Skyline Elementary School stu
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A parent activist becomes a powerful schools critic—and a force PPS can't ignore.
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If you Google the name Lainie Block Wilker, you get a photograph of Bobbie Regan instead.
In the photo, Regan,
the longest-serving member of Portland Public Schools’ Board of
Education, is wee
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A decade away made the new mayor a different kind of (political) barnyard animal.
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Once again, Charlie’s in charge.
Ten years ago,
Charlie Hales quit his job as city commissioner to start selling
streetcars. On Jan. 2, the downtown...
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A brash Republican survivor talks about how her party needs to change.
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Julie Parrish knows she’s a political misfit.
As she puts it, she’s
an immigrant’s kid, a first-generation American from a Lebanese father.
She’s an under-40 suburban mom with kids in pu
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The TriMet watchdog says riders should demand more from the agency.
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Al Margulies has more time than ever to be the scourge of the transit agency he calls “TriMess.”
Margulies—one of the
most outspoken of the transit agency’s public watchdogs—was a TriMet
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Revelation follows outbreak that sickened 135 diners.
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About two
weeks ago, the Oregon Zoo acknowledged 135 people got sick after eating
food prepared by at least one zoo restaurant. Health officials
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Face facts, readers: You wanted to read about lurid
four-star hotel sex and awkward death, Bart Simpson and Doctor Who—not
to mention a winningly surly football coach and an election-year smear
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At Portland’s gun show, a backdrop of tragedy sparks a buying frenzy.
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Greg Apple is selling a lot of semiautomatic rifles.
Customers wandering
through the Collectors West Gun and Knife Show last weekend pause to
look at his 10-yard-long display of rifles, priced a
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