The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is asking the Oregon Law Commission, which helps the legislature tinker laws that have unintended consequences or glaring holes, to review and make recommendations for changes to the state’s public meetings laws.

Robert Taylor did not say if the chats broke public meeting laws.

The Portland City Council this week spent five hours discussing the frequency of full council meetings and the structure and content of its policy subcommittees, but were unable to find consensus on a restructure.

The message also make clear that Peacock councilors see themselves as necessary disruptors of a system that once primarily served Portland’s wealthiest citizens.

Police mistakenly thought Clark was a suspect in a November 2022 robbery. Officers also mistakenly thought he was armed. Clark was neither armed nor the suspect in the robbery.

The messages among a bloc called “Peacock” provide an unusually clear window into the thinking of a group of councilors who are driving the agenda at City Hall.

A Portland firefighter has been placed on paid leave by the city pending a criminal investigation in Clackamas County of charges related to child pornography and child abuse.

The award is only applicable to managers who returned to full in-person work as mandated by Mayor Keith Wilson earlier this year.

The city promised improvements by 2020, then 2022, then 2025. The new target: 2026.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson in a recent meeting with Multnomah County homelessness officials expressed growing frustration over what seems to him like a lack of progress.