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The initial returns for Measure 26-108, Portland's test of public support to continue public campaign financing, suggest the city's five-year experiment with giving tax dollars to candidates for mayor, city commissioner and auditor is likely to end.

But both opp...   More

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David and Goliath swapped positions in the battle for fundraising supremacy over publicly financed campaigns in Portland.

Representing the little guy in the debate over Measure 26-108, Friends of Voter Owned Elections (which supports keeping Portlan...   More

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The final item on tomorrow's City Council agenda likely will produce the most contentious debate among commissioners.

That item concerns the Bureau of Development Services' recent request for   More

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One huge, unresolved issue surrounding Portland Public Schools’ high-school redesign concerns career training. Under Superintendent Carole Smith’s    More

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One huge, unresolved issue surrounding Portland Public Schools' high-school redesign concerns career training.

Under Superintendent Carole Smith's    More

News Mayor Sam Adams began today's discussion of "flexible" neighborhood spending with a caveat, telling his City Hall colleagues he didn't want his new budget exercise to "inflame inaccurately people's concerns about geographic equity."

Here's the basic premise of what Adams is talking about: T...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams has picked a new director of public safety five months after taking the helm of the Portland Police Bureau.

The new hire is Antoinette Edwards, formerly the diversity director for the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Adams hired Edwards this month, and mayoral spokesman Roy Kaufmann says Edwards' ...   More

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Mayor Sam Adams and Portland city commissioners will meet tomorrow for a budget "retreat" at City Hall. And one topic up for discussion is a real head-scratcher—it's called "flexible neighborhood spending."

Unclear about what that means? At leas...   More

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The Nov. 2 ballot includes a bunch of tax measures that, if approved, could cost a typical homeowner in Portland about $35 a year more in property taxes.

All the more reason to mention th...   More

Movies & Television

Portland played a bizarre cameo of sorts in last night's episode of CBS's The Good Wife. The Tuesday night drama portrayed a female masseuse's claim that "the most beloved Democrat in America" asked her to rub his adductor muscle during a ...   More