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The purchase of a home is the weightiest financial transaction of most people’s lives; it’s a bit jarring to see it marketed with techniques more commonly associated with roadside sweet corn and free kittens. 

“It feels like a slap in the face.”

Portland city leaders took the first step toward breaking an impasse over public funding of Moda Center renovations on Thursday afternoon.

The party-line vote was somewhat puzzling.

Julia Brim-Edwards has spent more money than either of her opponents have raised.

Initiative Petition 28, a controversial measure that would ban fishing and hunting across the state, has failed the first level of signature verification necessary to send it to the November ballot.

Skeptics of Oregon’s beer and wine industry are jousting with its boosters, in the latest effort to influence how health officials characterize and manage the perils of alcohol.

Councilors, who heard the rationale behind the ranking at a Tuesday meeting, were only partially in agreement with the parks department’s suggestions.

After triumphantly announcing that its $30 million budget deficit had been slashed in half earlier this year thanks to better-than-expected federal funding, the city of Portland’s housing authority last week said it had miscalculated the numbers.

The policy passed well before the explosive rise of AI, and therefore offers no guidance for how the district should navigate such software.

While business groups have pushed to modify the marginal income tax that funds Preschool for All, county commissioners appear focused on the program’s mounting expenses.

Portland Parks & Recreation lacked the money to either restore it or demolish the structure. That decision is now moot.