News Police Chief Mike Reese told WW in an off-duty interview this morning that he has decided not to participate in a scheduled mayoral candidate forum sponsored by labor unions. Nor will he take part in a gathering Wednesday evening at the Arlington Club that had been scheduled to introduce him to potential supporters as a potential candidate for mayor.Reese said he needs to focus on th...   More

News At about 6:25 Sunday morning, dozens of Portland police officers clad in riot gear quietly folded their tents and went home. It was supposed to be the campers and protesters of the Occupy Portland movement who have inhabited Chapman and Lownsdale Squares since Oct. 6 who surrendered to the police bureau's show of force but things did not turn out the way many in the gathered throng expected.Last T...   More

News For a guy who's not yet an official candidate for mayor, Police Chief Mike Reese has a busy week of non-police events upcoming. As reported earlier, he will on Tuesday appear at the Northwest Labor Council's candidate forum alongside Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith, all of whom have been in the mayor's race for months and have raised more than $100,000 each.

On Wednesday ...   More

Politics Maybe money can’t buy you love—legally, anyway—but it helps when trying to sway voters. For much of the past decade, Oregon House Democrats have out-raised
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News He's not an announced candidate yet, but Portland Police Chief Mike Reese will be onstage next Tuesday at the most important candidate forum so far the 2012 Portland mayor's race.
 
Reese will join Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith, all of whom announced their candidacies months ago. It is highly unusual for a candidate who is not actually in a race to take part in a vetti...   More

News Rob Cornilles demolished thin competition to win the Republican nomination in the First Congressional District special election Tuesday night. At 10 pm, the Secretary of State's elections division tally showed Cornilles leading Jim Greenfield 72 percent to 12 percent. In the Democratic primary, which featu...   More

News A sampling of written communication concerning Occupy Portland suggests that people's patience with the downtown tent city erected Oct. 6 is evaporating and that various groups are putting increasing pressure on Mayor Sam Adams to bring the occupation to an end.   More

News At least three candidates considering the race to replace Attorney General John Kroger, who stunned Oregon's legal and political world's last month with the announcement that he won't seek re-election in 2012, are being constrained by their current jobs.
One of them is assistant U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton, who served as interim U.S. Attorney and elevated the profile of that office while negot...   More

News It’s safe to say most Oregonians are neither terrorists, criminals nor illegal immigrants. But the 500,000 people who get their pictures taken for their driver’s license each year are having the   More

News Portland Police Chief Mike Reese is strongly considering running for mayor in 2012, and he's telling associates he could announce his candidacy as soon as this week, WW has learned.Three sources who have spoken directly with Reese about his plans tell WW that Reese has decided to seek to replace ...   More