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Home Forward, the city’s housing authority, last week divulged more information to its board of commissioners about its high vacancy rates, nonpayment of rent and cash flow woes.

Portland Community College on Wednesday announced it will delay the start of most of its spring term classes to April 6, as labor negotiations with two of its largest unions continue to drag on.

Health prices have been shooting faster than inflation pretty much everywhere. Portland-based Legacy says it needs to raise prices still further because of a 47% rise in its own costs between 2021 and 2025.

“In a representative democracy, sometimes you elect people who are easily cowed and scared.”

Multnomah County is struggling to replace shelter space lost when accounting discrepancies prompted it to stop paying rent for homeless families at Rockwood Tower.

Portland Community College is in talks about potential changes to its spring term following another round of unsuccessful negotiations with two of its largest unions on Monday night.

One of Oregon’s largest health insurance plans announced in recent days it might be going up for sale but, in the meantime, it still has quite a bit of cleaning up to do.

The deal would mean minimum 21.5% raises over a roughly four year span. And some workers would get far more.

After more than a quarter century, the public could emerge as an unexpected winner from one of Oregon’s largest environmental disasters.

The two powerful groups disagree whether the names of job applicants should be a matter of public record.

The furloughs mean PPS students will lose three instructional days, and school will let out on June 5, instead of June 9 as the district previously planned.

A policy intended to dampen human trafficking and sexual exploitation particularly along 82nd Avenue last week hit opposition from some councilors who worried that it would penalize small business owners and drive exploitation further into the shadows, making it harder to identify and help victims.