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The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighb...More
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The State of Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has reversed the City of Portland building permit for an 81-unit apartment complex with no on-site parking on Southeast Division Street.
The appeals board's Feb. 20 ruling means Beaverton-based developer Dennis Sackhoff must h...
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When Mayor Charlie Hales appointed Toby Widmer as interim director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation last month, the job came with clear instructions: Find money to pave roads.So Widmer appeare...
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Barely 48 hours before the first police-involved shooting of Mayor Charlie Hales' term—the killing of an emergency room patient allegedly waving a gun outside Portland Adventist Medical Center on Feb. 17—the mayor sat through a cras...
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The city's Bureau of Environmental Services has sold a second Portland Loo—to Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Ketchikan Gateway Bureau has ordered one of the city's patented stainless steel, solar-powered, open-air public toilets. But Portland can't complete the sale unti...
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Lawmakers in Washington and Oregon continue to escalate a standoff over whether the Project Formerly Known as the Columbia River Crossing should include light rail.
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TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlanestopped by our office last Thursday for an interview before giving his "State of TriMet" report this morning. That report was more like a war council, with McFarlane offering his opening tactic in a contract battle with Tr...
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Organizers of One Billion Rising, the worldwide protest to draw attention to issues of violence against women, are refusing to obtain a permit for their downtown march.
TriMet’s GM on the agency’s union costs, big penalties for fare dodgers, and why service cuts won’t be restored anytime soon.
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Neil McFarlane built his career on expanding TriMet. But he has become the face of cutbacks.
TriMet’s general
manager since 2010, McFarlane has been locked in a bitter struggle with
the
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