News Portland Parks & Recreation has cancelled plans to seek a bond measure in November.
Polling commissioned by Portland Parks Foundation showed insufficient voter support for the bond, the Portland Tribune first reported this ... More
Fish: City Parks Bond Measure Grounded by "Headwinds"
News Portland Parks & Recreation has cancelled plans to seek a bond measure in November.
Polling commissioned by Portland Parks Foundation showed insufficient voter support for the bond, the Portland Tribune first reported this ... More
Hales on Division Street No-Parking Apartments: "Do No More Harm"
News 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
Saved by the Cell
In airing a police-shooting video, Portland cops are learning the art of media self-defense.
News 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 More
Obama Offers Semi-Terrifying Chart of What Oregon Could Lose in the Sequester
News 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
UPDATED: City Orders Work Stopped on No-Parking Apartment Complex
News UPDATE, 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 ... More
City Chops Down Pier Park Sequoia, Arrests Woman Trying to Save It
News The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighb... More
State Appeals Board Yanks Permit for No-Parking Apartment Complex on Division Street
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News The State of Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has reversed the City of Portland building permit for an 81-unit apartment complex with no on-site parking on Southeast Division Street.
The appeals board's Feb. 20 ruling means Beaverton-based developer Dennis Sackhoff must h... More
Here's PBOT's Plan to Move $7.15 Million to Paving and Repairs, in One Handy Graphic
News When Mayor Charlie Hales appointed Toby Widmer as interim director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation last month, the job came with clear instructions: Find money to pave roads.So Widmer appeare... More
Hales on Alien Boy: "It's a Stunning Film"
News Barely 48 hours before the first police-involved shooting of Mayor Charlie Hales' term—the killing of an emergency room patient allegedly waving a gun outside Portland Adventist Medical Center on Feb. 17—the mayor sat through a cras... More
Alaska Would Like to Buy a Portland Loo, Please
News The city's Bureau of Environmental Services has sold a second Portland Loo—to Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Ketchikan Gateway Bureau has ordered one of the city's patented stainless steel, solar-powered, open-air public toilets. But Portland can't complete the sale unti... More
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The aggressive dork CEOs spearheading Portland’s startup scene. Children Of A Higher God
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Carrie Brownstein is making fun of you. Quake-Up Call
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48 hours inside Occupy Portland. Professor Xbox
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Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket. Voodoo Child
Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park. Thai Hard
Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer? Jacked Up
Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!)
The aggressive dork CEOs spearheading Portland’s startup scene. Children Of A Higher God
The members of the Santo Daime church fought for the right to drink hallucinogenic tea. And they’re serving it to kids. Mock Star
Carrie Brownstein is making fun of you. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Notes From the Occupation
48 hours inside Occupy Portland. Professor Xbox
Tom Bissell is Portland's finest writer. Why is he spending his time on video games and bad movies? Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket. Voodoo Child
Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park. Thai Hard
Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer? Jacked Up
Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!)
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