City Hall 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   More

News 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

News 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.

That's ...   More

News Canucks can't get enough of the Portland Loo.

The City of Portland has sold its third patented stainless steel, open-air public toilet to another town. This time it's Nanaimo, British Columbia—a city known for its bar district and bathtub-boat racing on Vancouver Island.

T...   More

News 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.

NW Labor Press    More

News Companies expected to pay for a Superfund cleanup of the Portland Harbor met this morning in Portland with an all-star summit—four members of Oregon's U.S. Congressional delegation, Mayor Charlie Hales and staff from the Environmental Protection Agency—to hammer out a deal for cleaning Willamette River sediment.

But those companies are bridling at a $125,500 fine th...   More

News Portland Mayor Charlie Hales' proposed budget includes cuts that remove 182.5 full-time city positions and eliminate high-profile programs like the Police Bureau's mounted patrol and Buckman Pool. But the mayor has preserved school police and kept all fire stations open.More than half of the positions cut are from public safety bureaus—police and fire—which m...   More

News Portlanders reading the tea leaves about the future of Oregon's alternative transportation businesses are getting muddled omens this week.  

On the cheery side, President Barack Obama announced today his pick of Charlotte, N.C...   More

News Good news for late-night al fresco tipplers, bad news for sleepless neighbors: The Oregon Liquor Control Commission won't be restricting bar-patio hours this summer.

For weeks, Portland officials all the way up to Mayor Charlie Hales have complained that the OLCC's proposed rule change—which would have closed patios at 11 pm on weeknights and 1 am Fridays and Saturdays—   More

News A U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge has ruled that the federal judiciary discriminated against an assistant federal public defender in Portland by not recognizing her same-sex marriage from Canada, and that Oregon's ban against same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution.
WW has obtained    More