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• Volm Takes Up Wurster's Cudgel...So to Speak

  —Loaded Orygun

  As broken early on by Matt Davis at The Merc--in one of the longer comment threads in Blogtown history I'm sure, featuring a pretty grand extended personal meltdown--former City of Portland spokesperson Mary Volm will be throwing her hat into the ring for City Council, specifically Dan Saltzman's [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:06pm EST
  

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• NedSpace partnership with OEN, SAO, and TechAmerica: A glimmer of things to come?

  —Silicon Florist

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  Last summer, many people rejoiced in the fact that the City of Portland had chosen to adopt the Portland Economic Development Strategy. Those of us around here were especially happy that a portion of that Strategy contained the recognition of [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  by Rick Turoczy

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• How the Portland Children's Levy doing? Who knows?

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  The City of Portland just announced that it's looking for an outside contractor to evaluate the various mentoring programs that have been receiving tax dollars from the special "for the children" property tax levy. And in explaining the need for third-party help, the request for proposals reveals [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:31am EST
  

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• No Affordable Housing In South Waterfront After All

  —Preemptive Karma

  Ryan Frank, The Oregonian: Amid a financial crunch, Oregon Health & Science University is close to a deal with the city of Portland to again delay construction of a big parking garage in the South...
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

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• Michelle Poyourow and Roger Geller debate bike funding on KBOO

  —BTA Blog

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  On Wednesday of this week BTA Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow and City of Portland Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller were interviewed on the monthly KBOO Bike Show.

  Bike show hosts Tori Bortman and Sara Stout asked the pair for their perspectives on the draft Portland [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:22pm EST
  

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• Good news, bad news on City of Portland debt

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  The City of Portland is out borrowing millions again -- this time for part of a new police dispatch system and for part of the city's troubled financial computer conversion. With the new bond issue comes a new official sales document for the city's paper, and as usual, it [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:19am EST
  

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• The latest poop on Portland water

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  The City of Portland has lifted the boil-water notice that it posted yesterday, and so now west side residents are free to do whatever they like with their tap water. The question remains why, if preliminary tests showed E-coli contamination on Thursday, nothing was said to the public until Saturday [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:47pm EST
  

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• More computer woes for City of Portland

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  Last week a tipster told us that the City of Portland's new computer system, which as we recall rolled out in earnest about a year ago, was having some problems. The switchover of personnel functions, which started over the summer, was not going well, we were told, vis-a-vis the police [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

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• Portland dusting off the plastic for another binge

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  The City of Portland hasn't staged a bond issue in a while. The whole rigamarole in which the bureaucrats publish a formal offering document and go out and borrow millions from some bank or other robber baron outfit -- the last one of those that I've seen was way back [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:47am EST
  

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• City tries out new lie in Chasse case

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  The "leaders" of the City of Portland are such bullies sometimes. And when they're wrong, they won't own up to it. They'll throw up one desperate lie after another, rather than face the truth. It's a cause for real civic shame, for every one of us who lives here. I'm [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  

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• City of Portland population growth rate drops to 1.08%

  —Jack Bog's Blog

  New population estimates for Oregon and its cities and counties have been released by the head-counting gurus at Portland State. They say that the City of Portland's population as of July 1, 2009 was 582,130 -- just 1.08% higher than the 575,930 PSU estimate for the same date a [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:37am EST
  

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• Happy Trails!

  —MaxRedline

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  The city of Portland has an extensive network of trails; part of their "green and sustainable" image.  It's particularly strong in hilly Southwest Portland, which has few sidewalks and a lot of unpaved roadway.  Portland has encouraged volunteers to construct much of the trail network there, but a number of [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:11pm EST
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