News A light drizzle fell on Bob Wolfe as he stood outside a citadel of the Portland establishment like the lupine nemesis in the story of the Three Little Pigs.  Wolfe was rattling the doors    More

News The campaign for a permanent Multnomah County Library taxing district has already spent more than $1 million but is leaving nothing to chance in its effort to pass Measure 26-143 on Nov. 6.
Over the weekend, the campaign disclosed borrowing $300...   More

News Secretary of State Kate Brown reported a hefty check today—$50,000 from winemaker Eric Lemelson.
Lemelson was one of the state's largest political donors in 2008 and 2010 but has been largely absent from the 2012 cycle. His contribution, however, is a sign of how seriously Brown is taking the challenge from Republican Dr. Knute Buehler and two others, Seth Woolley ...   More

Elections Observers of the Portland mayor’s race have whined about campaign tactics this year. But running for City Hall is like sipping high tea...   More

News Last year, WW published a cover story called "Bad Neighbor" about an abandoned mansion in Laurelhurst and the conflict around that property and its onetime-owner, Peter Fournier.
Over the weekend, The Oregonian caught up with    More

News Mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) took an unusual step on Monday—he amended his campaign committee filings with the Secretary of State's elections division to reflect that his staff will now shift some of their time and energy to helping support the campaign for Portland Public Schools $482 million capital bond measure.
Smith is also giving $5,000 of...   More

News Nena Cook, who is competing with Multnomah County Court Judge Richard Baldwin for a vacancy on the Oregon Supreme Court, reported loaning her campaign $80,000 yesterday. That loan comes on top of an earlier $10,000 Cook, a business and employment lawyer at the Sussman Shank firm in Portland, gave herself. She has also received $40,000 of the $232,000 she's raised this year from her m...   More

News Portland mayoral candidate Charlie Hales is breaking one of the biggest campaign promises he’s made to the city since finishing first in the May primary race. In June, Hales said he would voluntarily limit the campaign contributions he accepted for the fall election, and he urged his opponent in the runoff, state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland), to do the same.
"F...   More

News Proponents of Ballot Measures 82 and 83 made the surprise announcement this afternoon that they are calling off their campaign just three days before ballots for the Nov. 6 general election go in the mail.The news comes after two Canadian investment groups pumped more than $6 million into an effort to get voters to warm up to the idea of a private casino in Wood Village they called "The ...   More

News Anti-tax activist Don McIntire, who fundamentally changed Oregon's system of property taxation, has died.Details of McIntire's death are still unclear, says his longtime colleague, Jason Williams, with whom McIntire founded the Taxpayer Association of Oregon in 2000.
"The only thing I know is that he passed away from a heart attack in his home," Williams told WW.
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