News The next time you hear Portland's public safety bureaus howl about taking the brunt of what have been painted as draconian city budget cuts, remember this number: Zero.

That's how many layoffs the city's police and fire bureaus will have to make in the budget approved by City Council this morning.

Mayor Charlie Hales had    More

News No matter where he travels, the street kid known as Kidd always knows where he wants to end up. With a ragged goatee and barely as tall as a sidewalk mailbox, Kidd, who is in his early 20s, says   More

News 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

News 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

News 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

News 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

News 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

News 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

News 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

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    More