News Kaiser Permanente has written a $25,000 check to Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the political action committee pushing for Measure 26-151, which would authorize fluoridation of Portland's water supply, according to a filing with the state.
That check continues a mini-trend: the pro-fluoride campaign has gotten institutional support, while the anti-fluoride campaign...   More

News Sunday's New York Times Magazine gives a lot of ink to kids at Oregon Episcopal School learning how to butcher a pig from Camas Davis of the Portland Meat Collective, which...   More

News As Senate Bill 822—which includes what legislative Democrats are currently willing to do to address the $14 billion unfunded liability of the Public Employees Retirement System—heads for a vote, three groups are circulating a floor letter expressing unhappiness with the measure.
The ...   More

News Andy Wiederhorn was a high-flying Portland financier in the 90s who ended up in federal prison in the 2000s after his empire crumbled.
He and his company, publicly-traded Wilshire Financial Services Group, were...   More

News Portland economist Joe Cortright has taken a hard look (PDF) at a February tolling study produced for the $3.4 billion Columbia River Crossing Project by the consulting firm CDM Smith. Cortright findings cast further doubt on the assumptions about traffic volumes over ...   More

News The Economist magazine has taken notice of the Columbia River Crossing project in a piece in the current print edition. In an uncharacteristically equivocal review of the challenges facing the CRC, the magazine concludes
"Not every public-works p...   More

News Former State Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland) was unlikely to stay on the sidelines long after coming up short in her campaign to defeat incumbent City Commissioner Amanda Fritz last November.As WW reported, Nolan was recently a finalist for the top job at Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette, but lost out on that job.
But she's now been hired by FamilyCare, a ...   More

News Gov. John Kitzhaber has been coy about whether he'll seek an unprecedented fourth term next year—most recently batting down a question at Portland City Club on March 15, by saying he'll wait until after the legislative session ends this summer to announce a decision.
Kitzhaber may indeed wait until mid-summer to say that he's running. But filings with the Secretary of State show that ...   More

News In 2007, Oregon lawmakers decided to address global warming by moving the state aggressively away from burning coal and natural gas to produce electricity. They required big utilities to gener   More

News Everybody wants to fix TriMet, the beleagured transit agency. Currently, Gov. John Kitzhaber is responsible for appointing TriMet's seven-member board. Those board members must live in geographical districts.
Now, State Rep. Chris Gorsek (D-Troutdale) wants to change that governance system. Gorsek is spons...   More