News Political consultant Jon Isaacs, who ran a successful capital bond campaign last year for Portland Public Schools, is going to work for PPS Superintendent Carole Smith, according to three sources familiar with his plans.
In 2012, he also helped run mayoral candidate Eileen Brady's unsuccessful primary campaign. Isaacs rose to prominence within political circles running FutureP...   More

News Oregon’s seven state universities have been clamoring for years for more independence from bureaucratic state regulations. As taxpayer support for them has waned, Oregon University System offici   More

News One of the subtexts of last year's mayoral race was that the major public employee unions—all except Service Employees International Union—bet on then-Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland), who finished a distant second to Charlie Hales.Late in the race, Portland police and fire unions w...   More

News The Oregon Firearms Federation and similar groups from around the country today wrote to members of Congress asking members to keep their hands off Americans' guns and gun rights.
Here's a statement from OFF:

Oregon Firearms Federation (OFF), the state’s only “no compromise” gun lobby joined two dozen other gun rights advocate groups across the country today in sending an...   More

News 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   More

News Mayor-elect Charlie Hales announced additional staff hires this afternoon via his chief of staff, Gail Shibley:Here are the people joining the earlier hires:

• Baruti Artharee, policy director. Artharee previously worked at the Portland Development Commission and Providence Health & ...   More

News Mayor-elect Charlie Hales is filling his cabinet at a steady clip. As previously reported, Hales hired Gail Shibley to be his chief of staff and    More

News A bitter lawsuit that pitted Jessica Schlesinger against her father and two uncles in one of Portland's leading real-estate families moved closer to final resolution last week.
At issue is the handling of the estate of the family matriarch, Bernice Schlesinger, who died in 2000, leaving an estate of just under $13 million. Jessica Schlesinger, a beneficiary of her grandmother's e...   More

News Mayor-elect Charlie Hales has made his second key hire.
Hales, who takes office in January, has hired Dana Haynes to be his spokesman. Haynes was a reporter and editor for 20 years at various Oregon newspapers, including The Oregonian and, most recently, the Salem Statesman Journal, where he covered the state legislature. He joins Gail Shibley, whom Hale...   More

News Rob Kremer, a political consultant and longtime charter school activist has been named the head of TeamCFA Foundation, which is putting together a national network of charter schools.
TeamCFA is the creation of John Bryan, a Lake Oswego investor. It currently operates eight schools in three states and plans to open another...   More