News The campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams says it has almost 20,000 signatures with just 12 more days to collect an additional 12,000 names. In other words, it needs to get 1,000 a day — or 41 per hour or ... well, you get the idea. The deadline to submit the signatures collected from City of Portland residents is April 20. As of last week, the campaign estimated it had between 12,000 and ...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams today released his budget memo [PDF] about the need for further cuts to this year's budget and the next. The news Tuesday comes a day later than expected. The mayor's memo to his City Council colleagues singled out the Portland Police Bureau, already battered by recent events, as having overspent its budget by "up to $5 million" but offered no explanation for how that happened ...   More

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News Sisters of the Road community organizer Brendan Phillips raised concerns in this interview we ran in this week's WW about Mayor Sam Adams' sidewalk plan for downtown Portland, the Rose Quarter and Lloyd District. And now this afternoon, Sisters announced in this statement [PDF] that it opposes the mayor's proposal because the advocacy group says it would "unfairly target people experiencing homelessness ...   More

News The so-called Eastside Coalition of High Schools, an ad hoc group of parents that formed in recent weeks to address Portland Public Schools' high school redesign, has grown to include westside high schools. And under its new name, High School Alliance, the group will meet with PPS staff Saturday morning from 10 am to noon to discuss the ongoing plans. The group will then meet with Mayor Sam Adams' ...   More

News The campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams will stage a City Hall rally tomorrow morning, April Fools' Day, at 11:30. Former state Sen. Avel Gordly, the chief petitioner, will be there. And campaign volunteer Teresa McGuire says the rally's scheduling is purposeful, despite questions from some about whether it makes the recallers look like the campaign is a joke. "We feel people have acted foolishly, ...   More

News The campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams got a boost this week with news that real-estate bigwig Joe Weston would lease the mostly volunteer effort new, discounted office space across from the Rose Quarter. The new office at 407 N. Broadway won't open until next week. But volunteers should be familiar with the space already; it's next door to the old office Weston donated during the last recall ...   More

News After a briefing from Portland Police earlier today, Mayor Sam Adams said this afternoon he has not reconsidered his decision to hand police management to Commissioner Dan Saltzman. But the mayor does say he will play a higher-profile role on police matters going forward. "I've decided to be more visible," he told WW, two days after the second fatal shooting of a man this year by a Portland ...   More

News It was billed as a hearing to discuss the Bureau of Environmental Services' 2010-2011 budget, but the talk at City Hall this afternoon quickly devolved into an episode reminiscent of a dysfunctional family meeting. Topic No. 1: Mayor Sam Adams' decision to take $20 million from BES's budget to help fund the Bicycle Plan for 2030. Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who manages BES, opened the talk by ...   More

News Just last week, Mayor Sam Adams singled out the Portland Police Bureau for being "projected to overspend its budget by up to $5 million." But in a meeting today with labor leaders and city bureau directors — after a question from Chief Rosie Sizer about her bureau's financial condition — a representative of the city's budget office told the gathered crowd that new projections showed ...   More