News "Give bikes a round of applause, somebody," Mayor Sam Adams said midway through his State of the City address at Portland City Club today. That odd request typified a rambling speech that began with Adams introducing his mother and grandmother, and that ended with Adams getting a standing ovation from about two-thirds of the room. Early on in his first State of the City speech, the mayor ...   More

News Four citizens showed up at City Council's weekly session this morning to ask Mayor Sam Adams to resign, in what's become a regularevent since Adams admitted on Jan. 19 that he'd lied about having a sexual relationship with then teen-aged Beau Breedlove in 2005 Today's testifiers were more measured than in previous weeks (video will be archived here later today). And while seemingly not coordinated, ...   More

News Last October, then-Mayor-Elect Sam Adams announced big plans for the North Broadway building known as the leftbank project. In Adams' speech back then at the "Go Green" conference, Adams announced that two organizations set up to market the city and the state's sustainability cred, PDX Lounge and Portland + Oregon Sustainability Institute would be setting up shop in the leftbank building. PDX ...   More

News At a time when the City of Portland is preparing to cut such basic services as street cleaning and pavement repair, prospects for a heavily-subsided 600-room "headquarters hotel" adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center are looking brighter. Earlier this month, a task force that Mayor Sam Adams asked to review the long-planned project gave a cautious thumbs-up to moving forward. "The Task Force ...   More

News To all of you Beau Breedlove saga lovers, your wait is over for hot, steamy pictures of the ex-legislative intern at the center of the state Attorney General investigation into Mayor Sam Adams. Thanks to Unzipped magazine, here's the cover photo, But don't just stop there: the issue has tons of fun inside too! A full spread nude photo session and interview where Breedlove tells all about his ...   More

News This week, Mayor Sam Adams made an unscheduled appearance at a meeting of the Oregon Convention Center Urban Renewal Advisory Committee. Although that group may be obscure, it is involved in overseeing money earmarked for projects crucial to Adams' vision for Portland. The group was meeting Tuesday Monday afternoon to discuss its budget—which shows that it has about $35 million to spend ...   More

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News Mayor Sam Adams is pretty busy these days, pushing forward on such big ticket items as bringing Major League Soccer to Portland and the resurrection of the long-stalled "Headquarters Hotel" project. Now for something new: Adams has come up with the "Mayor's International Business Awards," designed to be an annual program to recognize promising local businesses. Entrants for the new honors ...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams visited a meeting of the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Advisory Committee Monday night to tell the assembled group of volunteers he wanted to "study" extending the southern boundary of Interstate's urban renewal zone to encompass the Rose Quarter. The idea would be to access the millions of dollars in available funding from the Interstate area to help pay for the ever-expanding ...   More

News Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler got a response from Mayor Sam Adams today on whether the city would help the county get federal matching funds to replace the Sellwood Bridge, as Wheeler proposed in March [PDF]. The City Council has now had six weeks to consider that request. According to Wheeler, who met Tuesday afternoon with Adams, the mayor told the county chairman he would support funding ...   More