City Hall  More than a month after street sweepers passed through Portland’s “leaf districts” to clear fallen foliage, only 37 percent of assessed property owners have paid the new removal fee.   More

News This is wild: Oakland computer programmer Eric Fischer has used census data from 2000 to map the distribution of ethnic populations in the 40 largest American cities. Each dot represents 25 people, and is color-coded by race: white is pink, black is blue, Hispanic is yellow and Asian is green. The map of Portland is above (click to enlarge). In Portland, all three nonwhite populations recorded ...   More