News The pro-fluoride campaign, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, has reported $325,000 in new contributions since Monday, taking a large lead in the money race on Measure 26-151, the proposal on the May 21 ballot to fluoridate Portland's water.
The campaign reported contributions of $165,920 from the Northwest Health Foundation; $60,000 from the Oregon Dental Association; $50,000 from ...   More

Cover Story Misfortune is Daniel N. Gordon’s best friend. No Oregon lawyer files more lawsuits—or wins more—than Gordon. He doesn’t do divorces, car accidents or medical malpractice. Instead, he is th   More

News Environment & Energy Daily, a trade publication that tracks Congress, reported today that Josh Kardon, the former chief of staff for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has a new client—the oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp.
Kardon, worked for Wyden for 18 years, many of them stationed in Portland. When Kardon left Wyden's office in 2011, the senator was glowing in his praise. <...   More

News Bill Sizemore, the anti-tax, anti-public employee union ballot measure specialist, has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In his filing on April 9, Sizemore listed assets of $10,796 and liabilities of $21 million.
Those liabilities are the result of civil lawsuits the Oregon Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers won against him.
Sizemore, 61,...   More

News As the city budget process grinds toward a conclusion, commissioners are turning in their homework.
When Mayor Charlie Hales took control of all city bureaus for the duration of the budget cycle he asked his colleagues to spend some of their new-found spare time examining bureau spending.
Two of them, Dan Saltzman and Amanda Fritz, got the task of looking at public safety lab...   More

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