Murmurs When voters approved a new taxing district for the Multnomah County Library last fall, they also crunched the City of Portland’s budget. That’s because the new taxing district squeezed out $10 m   More

News After a lengthy search Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette finally found a new CEO and President, the nonprofit announced today.The board tapped Stacy James, the CEO and President of Planned Parenthood of Montana.James, who will start June 1, edged out former state Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland), who lost a City Council race this November against incumbent City Commissioner Amanda Fritz. James, ...   More

News Former Portland City Council candidate and soon-to-be ex Rep. Mary Nolan is a candidate for the top job at Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette.The nonprofit confirmed to WW this afternoon that Nolan, who lost a bid to unseat incumbent City Commissioner Amanda Fritz in November, is a candidate for the CEO position. She would replace David Greenberg, who left his $196,000 a-year-post earlier ...   More

News Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette is expected to choose its new CEO at a board meeting tonight. Earlier this year, after contentious contract negotiations with the Service Employees International Union, the non-profit's CEO, David Greenberg left his $196,000 a-year-post. As WW reported earlier this week, one of two finalists to replace Greenberg is Judy Peppler, who was until 2011 the CEO ...   More

News Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette has been searching for a new CEO for several months, ever since conflict over a new contract with the Service Employees International Union led to the departure of former CEO David Greenberg from his $196,000-a-year post.WW has learned that the search is down to two finalists—an internal candidate from a Planned Parenthood chapter in Florida, and a name ...   More

News Gunshots were fired at least 11 times in the last two months in the outer-eastside neighborhoods currently represented by state...   More

Murmurs A federal grand jury in San Diego last week indicted Yonas Fikre and two others for attempting to conceal the transfer of $75,000 from the United States to the United Arab Emirates in 2010. Fikre is t   More

Q & A When WW compares Oregon and Texas, Cecile Richards gets a little defensive. “Why does everybody always pick on Texas?”   More

News Volunteers and supporters of Planned Parenthood will rally tonight (Feb. 21), from 5 pm-6pm at the organization's Columbia/Willamette's Regional Center (3727 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.), to protest the U.S. House of Representatives vote last Friday that would prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds.Among the casualties of that vote would be federal funding for birth control, ...   More

News When the Oregon election results come out tonight, one of the biggest winners will be someone who's not even on the ballot. Mark Wiener, the political consultant of choice for Democrats and those who want to raise taxes, has collected big bucks this election cycle to provide strategy to the following people and organizations: 1) Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber; 2) The ...   More