News The Portland Building is notorious worldwide for the garish pastel facade towering over the Portlandia statue. Now the city worries it won't have the savings to keep the building and others owned by the city running as they should be.A city finance official warns that Portland is saving just half the money it needs to maintain its buildings and technology, and within five years could face a "loss of ...   More

News A Murmur in this week's paper described how Portland's Bureau of Transportation and its Office of Management and Finance are continuing talks about the cost of fully implementing the city's Bicycle Plan for 2030. OMF analysts reviewed PBOT's $613 million figure for the plan and wrote, in a memo to City Commissioners last week, that that number may have underestimated the price of building the ...   More