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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...
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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
The Amnesty International activist applauds Ron Wyden—but says the Oregon senator needs to do more.
Q & A
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
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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)��
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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
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The neighborhood activists fighting to save the Buckman Pool are on their last lap.
Last week, Mayor Charlie Hales cut the tiny basement swimming pool in Southeast Portland—and its $10-per-swimmer city operating cost—from his first proposed budget. But the More
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The campaign against Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland's water, has received one of its largest single donations—from an Illinois-based alternative physician who makes unusual medical claims.
Dr. Joseph Mercola donated $15,000 in cash to Clean Water Portland on April 28, and the campaign reported the contribution over the weekend.
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Mayor Charlie Hales' first proposed budget has pitted him against the public-safety unions of the fire and police bureaus, which are taking the brunt of the personnel cuts.
Now another safety patrol is asking Hales to unionize: the park rangers.