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Bob Ball Offers an Extra $150,000 to Save Mounted Patrol

Non-profit is creating a $5,000-a-horse sponsorship program

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Bob Ball is making another bid to save the Portland Police Bureau's mounted patrol unit.

The Pearl District condo developer made the city an offer this month through the non-profit Friends of Portland's Mounted Patrol to increase its annual contribution to the horseback cops from $2...   More
 
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by AARON MESH

Somebody Pulled a Portland Loo Door Off

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The city's first Portland Loo was out of commission this weekend after someone pulled the metal door partly off its hinges last Thursday morning.

"We've got a Loo down," Anne Peterson, who manages the city's six Loos for the Bureau of Environmental Services, told her colleagues Thursday, April 18.  

A city-contracted janitor found the door hanging off its hinges a...   More
 
Monday, April 22, 2013 by AARON MESH

Portland Still Bound by Non-Disclosure Agreement with Nike

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The possibility of Nike placing its campus expansion in Portland's South Waterfront may be dead, but the non-disclosure agreements city officials signed with the sports apparel giant are very much alive.

Those agreements cover any incentive offers Portland Development Commission made Nike, as well as full details of the campus proposals the company showed city of...   More
 
Friday, April 19, 2013 by AARON MESH

Ethics Commission Throws Out Bus Driver's Complaint Against TriMet General Manager

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The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has ruled that a complaint filed against TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane is outside of its jurisdiction.

Retired bus driver and longtime TriMet scourge Al Margulies filed the ethics complain...   More
 
Thursday, April 18, 2013 by AARON MESH

Details of Scrapped Nike South Waterfront Deal Emerge

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Details of what Nike pitched to Portland City Hall about its possible expansion to South Waterfront are emerging in the wake of today's announcement the shoe and apparel giant will expand instead near its world headquarters in Washington County.

WW has learned that, ...   More
 
Thursday, April 18, 2013 by AARON MESH

City Gets 44 Applications to Run Transportation Bureau

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 Turns out plenty of people would like a shot at running the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

The city has received 44 applications for the open transportation director job, officials say.

It's been a hot seat to occupy: May...   More
 
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by AARON MESH

Portland NAACP Opposes Fluoridation

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 The Portland branch of the NAACP has voted to oppose fluoridating Portland's water supply.

“Children growing up in communities of color already face risks from many different environmental chemicals," NAACP political chair Cheryl Carter said in a statement this afternoon, "and they do not need more chemicals added to their drinking water.”

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by AARON MESH

Diamonds in the Rough

A man suspected of pimping in Spokane is behind a new Laurelhurst strip club.


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The residents of the Laurelhurst neighborhood aren’t happy about the new neighbor moving in from Spokane, Wash. Not that they liked the old neighbors much. The new resident since last Novemb   More
 
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 AARON MESH

Ticket Masters

Timbers Army members take the fight against scalping into their own hands.


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Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t   More
 
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 MATTHEW KORFHAGE, AARON MESH

Kerns Neighborhood Applies for Permit Parking

PBOT says Division Street not a good candidate

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The Kerns neighborhood in inner Northeast Portland is the first to request a "mini" permit-parking area under a program the City Council passed last summer.

Neighborhood residents in Kerns (here's a map) are seeking to require permits around Benson...   More
 
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by AARON MESH
 

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