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Fiscal Bluff

The proposed budget cuts city bureaus are betting mayor Charlie Hales won’t make.


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It’s budget season at City Hall, the time of year when we’re told what a dystopian Portland would look like. Streets without cops. Homes burning out of control. Empty swimming pools, vagrants    More
 
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 AARON MESH

City Commissioners Seeking $1.7 Million in One-Time Money

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A $25 million hole in the city budget isn't stopping Portland City Commissioners from seeking one-time funding for projects outside city bureaus. WW first reported yesterday that th...   More
 
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 by AARON MESH

$6.4 Million in One-Time Money is On the City Hall Chopping Block

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Mayor Charlie Hales is entering city budget season facing a much-publicized $25 million shortfall. But the hole could be bigger than that.

Last year's city budget included $13.7 million in one-time funding fo...   More
 
Monday, February 11, 2013 by AARON MESH

Oregon Zoo Buys Elephants Lily and Tusko from Traveling Show

Price tag: $400,000

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The Oregon Zoo announced this morning it has purchased legal rights to baby elephant Lily and her father Tusko from the California-based traveling elephant show Have Trunk Will Travel.
The price tag for the two pachyderms? $400,000.
The deal for Lily and Tusko ends a three-month uproar that began    More
 
Friday, February 8, 2013 by AARON MESH

Planning Bureau Recommends No More No-Parking Apartments Bigger Than 40 Units

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 Last month, Portland City Council told the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to draft new zoning rules for the apartments without on-site parking that have sparked ire across the eastern quadrants of Portland.

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Friday, February 8, 2013 by AARON MESH

Read Esquire's Rousing Defense of the Postal Service, Filed from Oregon

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Your email inbox was surely jammed yesterday with alarmed messages regarding the U.S. Postal Service's plan to stop delivering most mail on Saturdays. Esquire wasn't surprised: The magazine's February issue includes a   More
 
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by AARON MESH

Fluoride Foes Remove Parody Facebook Page

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Today's edition of WW's Murmurs opens with an item about how fluoridation opponents started a Facebook page with nearly the same name ("Healthy Portland, Healthy Kids") as    More
 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by AARON MESH

Talking With the Enemy

In an unprecedented Oregon program, domestic-violence victims ask questions of abusers.


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Hope Vanderhoof for eight years put up with being hit in the head and kicked with steel-toed boots by her boyfriend. She finally ended the relationship in 2005, when he tried to kill her by settin   More
 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AARON MESH

Violence Against VAWA

Why Republicans allowed a federal law aiding survivors of sexual and domestic violence to expire.


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In the final days of the 112th U.S. Congress—days marked by frantic brinkmanship to avoid the fiscal cliff—Capitol Hill let the Violence Against Women Act fall with a thud.  For the f   More
 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AARON MESH

Hotseat: Vanessa Timmons

She’s pressing Salem to open state pocketbooks for abused women.


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Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence director Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money.    More
 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AARON MESH
 

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