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The furor over a controversial 81-unit apartment building on Southeast Division Street hasn't just resulted in the city halting construction on the project.
It's also led to more power for neighborhood associations.
A fired city bureau chief scores one last goal—expanding the parking district around Jeld-Wen Field.
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Sam Stidham, a sales clerk at West Burnside clothing
boutique Reveille, had no idea that parking around the corner from her
storefront had jumped to $3.50 an hour during Portland Timbers games.
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Nothing is as it appears in Clackamas County.Hours after the West Linn Police Department sent out a press release warning the public to avoid a sick sea lion resting on rocks in Mary S. Young Park, the cops delivered an update explainin...
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Neighborhood activists will hold a memorial ceremony in on Sunday, March 3, for the giant sequoia that the city chopped down last week in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a pedestrian and bicycle bridge.
Mayor distances himself from East Portland sidewalk cuts.
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Mayor Charlie Hales has declared "safety throughout the city has to be our first priority" after a 5-year-old girl was hit and killed by a car last night on Southeast 136th Avenue, near where the city proposed cancelling a sidewalk-building project."There has been a lot of talk of late about paving streets, and about sidewalks and crosswalks throughout our city," ...
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Mayor Charlie Hales says he supports the Bureau of Development Services' decision to issue a stop-work order on a controversial Southeast Division Street apartment complex after a state land-use board More
In airing a police-shooting video, Portland cops are learning the art of media self-defense.
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When he ran for mayor, Charlie Hales promised he would
change the culture of a Portland Police Bureau known for controversial
shootings and violent treatment of the mentally ill.
But
when polic
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Another week, another budget standoff. This time, it's the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts if President Barack Obama can't make a deal with Congress by March 1. Who cares? you say. I only worry about things...More
NewsUPDATE, 5 pm: After a flurry of meetings in the Bureau of Development Services and City Hall, the City of Portland is issuing a stop-work order telling developer Dennis Sackhoff to halt construction on the 37th Street Apartments, an 81-unit complex on Southeast Division Street. "I'm working on a request for them to cease construction," says Paul Scarlet, director of ...
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