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Hales Mandates Security Guards, Port-a-Potties at Last Thursday

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Mayor Charlie Hales keeps showing up to neighborhood messes with a shovel.

First he went after big apartments without parking spaces, then tried to set ...   More
 
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by AARON MESH

City Spares Mounted Patrol, Buckman Pool from Budget Axe

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Mayor Charlie Hales announced this afternoon that his office has cobbled together money from a mix of public and private sources to preserve a list of city programs citizens fought to keep from the budget chopping block.

Those last-minute salvages from $21.5 million in budget cut...   More
 
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by AARON MESH

Anti-Fluoride Campaigners Relish Their Victory


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Clean Water Portland is celebrating its big victory over 26-151, the Portland measure that would have required the fluoridation of the city's drinking water. 
At the election night victory party—held at On Deck Sports Bar and Grill in the Pearl District—a small crowd swe...   More
 
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by AARON MESH

Portland Voters Soundly Reject Fluoride

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Fluoride is 0-for-4 in Portland.

Early returns in tonight's special election show Measure 26-151—which would have required the fluoridation of Portland's water supply—losing 61 percent to 39 percent

The defeat marks the fourth time since 1956 that Portland voters have rejected fluoride, and keeps this the largest city in the United States with u...   More
 
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by AARON MESH

Nick Fish Still Stumping for Parks Bond

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Even though Portland Parks & Recreation has cancelled plans for a bond measure on this November's ballot, City Commissioner Nick Fish keeps reminding voters the idea will come back soon.

At his opening address for the Pearl District...   More
 
Friday, May 17, 2013 by AARON MESH

New KATU Poll Shows Fluoride Losing By 13 Points

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With five days left until the May 21 election, polling numbers keep getting worse for fluoride.
Ballot Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portlands water supply, trails by 13 percentage points in the newest poll released by WW's ...   More
 
Thursday, May 16, 2013 by AARON MESH

Oral Arguments on Jack Bogdanski's Art Tax Suit Start Next Week

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Happy arts tax day!

For those of you keeping score at home, the $35-a-person Portland arts tax is due today—the deadline moved back a month after the city had trouble getting money from people without computers,    More
 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 by AARON MESH

Hotseat: Zeke Johnson

The Amnesty International activist applauds Ron Wyden—but says the Oregon senator needs to do more.


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Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).  Who watches Wyden? Zeke Johnson. Johnson is the director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights    More
 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 AARON MESH

Money Bucket

Portland wants every city to have its patented toilet.


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Anne Peterson is a problem solver. She may not look like one—her dyed maroon hair and gold-rimmed sunglasses hint at her second life as a “Burner” (one who regularly attends Burning Man)��   More
 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 AARON MESH

Appeal to the Baseline

The retail politics of the Hales budget creates winners and losers.


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Politicians don’t usually gain support by making budget cuts.But the startling thing about Mayor Charlie Hales’ first budget, released April 30, is how the mayor’s cutting of $21.5 million has b   More
 
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 AARON MESH
 

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