City Hall Four months after Portland voters killed public financing of political campaigns for city office, a small cadre of supporters is organizing to bring the issue back. They got the OK last month from   More

News Former Portland City Council candidate Spencer Burton struck us during his unsuccessful 2010 campaign as an intriguing candidate. Burton failed to qualify for public financing as one of the hopefuls challenging the re-election of Commissioner Dan Saltzman. But we wrote before the May primary that Burton "surprised us with his knowledge of Portland affairs, his common-sense approach and his of-the-people ...   More

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News Ed Garren, a family therapist who in 2008 ran unsuccessfully for former Commisioner Erik Sten's seat, is gearing up for the May 2010 primary election. This time the Hayden Island activist is running for the seat of Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who has said he will wait until January to make an official announcement about his candidacy. Garren filed his paperwork today, his mother's 97th birthday. ...   More

News With the Jan. 29 public financing deadline looming in the race for Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman's seat, his challengers met last Sunday to brainstorm strategies to secure public financing. And what did they come up with? A series of Candidates' Collective events in which candidates will each speak for five minutes and spend the rest of the evening collecting 1,000 signatures and the ...   More

News The race to get 1,000 signatures and $5 contributions from registered Portland voters to qualify for public campaign financing ends tomorrow. Now there are more signs not all of the candidates running against Commissioner Dan Saltzman are going to make it. This morning, for example, Mary Volm withdrew her name from the list of people seeking public campaign financing. Fellow candidate Ed Garren ...   More

News Stonemason Spencer Burton didn't qualify for public financing in his race for City Commissioner Dan Saltzman's seat. But that's not stopping Burton from spreading his of-the-people message across Portland. I ran into Burton yesterday at Kenny & Zuke's in Northwest Portland as Burton was distributing the first of 10,000 newspapers he printed for $1,000 to communicate his platform to Portland ...   More