News Mayor Sam Adams told WW about 3:45 pm today that he is close to making a decision about whether he will resign or fight to keep his office. Adams is meeting individually with city commissioners tomorrow morning. "I'm not going to keep people waiting much longer," Adams told WW. "I need to make a good decision and make it soon." Adams, who has not been back to City Hall since a Tuesday press ...   More

News Portland Police Association President Scott Westerman emailed Mayor Sam Adams last night to both apologize to the mayor while strengthening the call from his union of 900-plus members for the mayor to resign. In his message to Adams, Westerman cited sections of the city code he thinks Adams has violated. In public comments, Westerman has also talked about the appearance of a double standard ...   More

News The head of the politically powerful Portland Firefighters Association says for now, his union won't call for Mayor Sam Adams to resign. But the union boss says he has doubts whether Adams can lead the city effectively after Adams admitted he lied to the public. "We're very disappointed," says Ken Burns, president of Local 43 of the PFFA. "He's a leader of the city. I think it will affect his ...   More

News In one of the stranger twists to the ongoing City Hall saga, embattled Mayor Sam Adams was set to give a speech on ethics to Portland State University students on Friday. But after Adams admitted Monday that he lied to the public about having sex with an 18-year-old former legislative intern, Adams' office called PSU this morning to cancel his keynote address at a student leadership conference ...   More

News Leaders of the powerful Portland firefighters' union are meeting Thursday to discuss whether to inject themselves into the scandal brewing around Mayor Sam Adams. Ken Burns, president of the Portland Firefighters Association Local 43, tells WW that union leaders will decide Thursday morning whether to take the issue of whether to call for Adams' resignation before the union's executive board. Leaders ...   More

News UPDATE, Wednesday 12:45 pm: The state Attorney General's office has announced it will investigate. Click here to read the AG's statement. --------------------------- In a sign that Mayor Sam Adams' support is eroding, three of his four council colleagues —commissioners Nick Fish, Amanda Fritz and Randy Leonard— have signed a letter asking Attorney John Kroger to open an investigation ...   More

News The head of the city's powerful 900-member police union today called on Mayor Sam Adams to resign immediately after Adams admitted on Monday he lied about having sex with an 18-year-old intern. Sgt. Scott Westerman, president of the Portland Police Association, tells WW that Adams' admitted coverup of the 2005 affair with Beau Breedlove revealed "a dramatic lack of integrity." "What would ...   More

News Portland's gay publication Just Out got a lot of heat when it joined mainstream publications such as The Oregonian, The Portland Tribune and The Portland Business Journal in calling for Mayor Sam Adams to resign after he admitted to lying about having sex with then-teenager Beau Breedlove in 2005. With a nod to Martin Luther King Jr., the San Diego Gay & Lesbian Times recently echoed and amplified ...   More

News Former Willamette Week news editor John Schrag first met Portland Mayor Sam Adams back in 1993, when Schrag was a WW reporter. These days, Schrag, who left WW in 2005, is the editor and publisher of the suburban Forest Grove News-Times. He's also the father of a teen-age daughter, which appears to have influenced the column he wrote today about Adams' recent admission that he had a sexual relationship ...   More

News WW has learned that a third member of Mayor Sam Adams' staff is leaving in the wake of Adams' admission that he lied in 2007 when he denied having had sex in 2005 with Beau Breedlove when Breedlove was 18. Nate Waas Shull, who held the title of Adams' Education Strategies Youth Coordinator, is leaving the mayor's office to join the Portland Schools Foundation. Before joining Adams' staff, Waas ...   More