News Carrying signs reading, “Jobs Not War” and “Peace: A Growth Industry,” about 1,000 people gathered Saturday afternoon in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The March 19 date marks the eighth anniversary of U.S. forces invading Iraq. But the protest was as much about jobs as it was anti-war. With the U.S. deficit soaring, the economy limping out ...   More

News With the death toll in Japan now at 7,500 people and expected to climb, members of Portland's Japanese community and other supporters gathered Friday evening at a vigil and memorial service for victims of last week's earthquake and tsunami. Mayor Sam Adams and Takamichi Okabe, Consul General of Japan in Portland, were among the people strolling through the Japanese Garden's East Pavilion and the ...   More

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News In his State of the City speech last month, Portland Mayor Sam Adams took Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton by surprise when Adams proposed that the city take over the sheriff's duty of providing law enforcement on local waterways.Adams said that by absorbing river-patrol costs (currently $1.8 million, according to city estimates), the city would let the county invest that money in cash-starved mental-health ...   More

News Here's a mini-update to a piece in this week's WW about the prospects of public campaign finance returning to the 2012 ballot for Portland voters to consider.One of the biggest supporters of the effort last fall to retain public financing as an option in city races was New Seasons co-founder Brian Rohter. Rohter, who donated more than $5,000 in cash and in-kind contributions to the unsuccessful pro-public ...   More

News We're happy to learn Elmo and his cronies from Sesame Street are coming to Portland in mid-May for a three-day stint.According to a blurb for this "Elmo's Healthy Heroes" musical coming to the Memorial Coliseum, "When Super Grover loses his superness, Sesame Street needs a hero! Never fear, Elmo and his team of Healthy Heroes are here. Teaching lessons of healthy habits through song and dance, Elmo, ...   More

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News  Once you're done reading the piece in today's WW about the reasons for the latest delay in a City Council decision on whether Portland police officers should be part of the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, there's another piece worth reading.It's a report in the New York Daily News from a couple days back on internal squabbles inside New York City's JTTF, a dispute that may give fodder to ...   More

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