“A real example of what I think of as the ‘one in 1,000 problem’ which plagues public policy.”

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Two allies on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners are now rivals on the campaign trail.

Nobody else can claim to be America’s eighth-best metro area for working moms.

It might be the first issue in recent memory that unites the commenters on wweek.com with the posters on Bluesky: Thanks, they hate it.

“I always said that each generation should leave the world a little bit better than it was when they found it. And we know that Portland is better than it was 50 years ago. And we hope that the next generation will make it better than it is now.”

“What the wealthy do with their money is generally not a concern of mine, but making sure the nonwealthy have affordable access to quality schools is.”

The “Rocky Road ice cream-inspired” sandwich cookie is no Thin Mint, but it went down pretty easy.

The slaying of Alex Pretti was felt especially keenly in Portland, a city Trump had in his crosshairs only a month ago.

“Using a single axis to chart political alignment on a nonpartisan city council entirely made up of registered Democrats is stupid and I wish local media would stop doing it.”