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Hotseat: Vanessa Timmons

She’s pressing Salem to open state pocketbooks for abused women.


Q & A
Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence director Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money.    More
 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AARON MESH

Like Weed? Looking for Work?

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 We may have been the last media outlet to notice this, but still:
In the wake of Washington voters approving recreational marijuana, the state's liquor control board has sent out an unusual    More
 
Friday, February 1, 2013 by AARON MESH

Steve Novick Made Portland a Phone-Hold Music Mixtape

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City Commissioner Steve Novick wants Portland to change its phone-hold music. So he made the city bureaus a playlist.

In this week's cover story on changes at City Hall, WW reported that Novick, who took off...   More
 
Thursday, January 31, 2013 by AARON MESH

Saltzman Too Sick to Attend Sick-Leave Hearing

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This week's WW cover story on new Portland Mayor Charlie Hales takes a closer look at how most of the real deal-making in City Hall takes place in an improvised dance of one-on-one office meetings between commissioners and the...   More
 
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 by AARON MESH

Strange Brew

The city is subsidizing a church-affiliated bar that plans to give away all its profits.


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Stop us if you’ve heard this one: A bureaucrat, a preacher and The New York Times walk into a bar. The punch line? The Times’ glowing story Jan. 20 revealing that the Portland Development Co   More
 
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 MATT KAUFFMAN, AARON MESH

Return of Chucky

Portland needs to make big spending cuts. New mayor Charlie Hales is swinging the ax.


Cover Story
Portland City Hall is awfully quiet for a palace amid a revolution. Since the start of the year, the place has felt like a barely solvent art gallery sold to absentee bankers. Outside the mayor’    More
 
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 AARON MESH

Hales Cuts $395,000 From Teen Summer Job Programs

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Portland Mayor Charlie Hales promised upon taking office to cut non-essential expenses out of the city budget.
This afternoon, he announced the first one he's cutting: a public-private partnership to give summer jobs to teenagers.

Hales' office said today it will not bring to City Council two items it removed from the agenda earlier this month: A grant and a contrac...   More
 
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 by AARON MESH

Voter-Owned Redux

Amanda Fritz bankrolled her own re-election. Now she wants to resurrect public campaign financing.


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City Commissioner Amanda Fritz spent her nest egg last year—more than $375,000 of her own money—to buy four more years in Portland City Hall. “Most people could not and would not do what   More
 
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 AARON MESH

Portland Streetcar Asks City For More Money to Fix Its Only New Vehicle

Other streetcars won't be ready until March

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For five months, it's been clear that the only operational American-made streetcar has a list of glitches.Now Portland knows the bill.
In a contract amendment that goes before City Council on Wednesday, Portland Streetcar is asking the City of Portland for $145,000 to fix a malfunctioning propulsion system on the only streetcar that manufacturer United Streetcar has ...   More
 
Monday, January 21, 2013 by AARON MESH

Wyden Sends Obama a Letter Asking When the CIA Can Kill Americans

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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter yesterday to President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. The letter asks for the secret legal opinions that say when the president can kill Americans with drones.
That letter is getting    More
 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 by AARON MESH
 

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