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City Hall protestors cleaned out
A three-week protest by the homeless in front of Portland City Hall ended abruptly this morning as police moved in. Just before 6 a.m., two officers began stringing yellow police tape around City Hall while another dozen officers wearing blue protective gloves, began asking protesters to move. ...
Police shoot man while serving federal warrant
Portland police are investigating their second officer-involved shooting in the past 36 hours. The latest incident is at a house near Southeast 126th and Holgate. Just before 6 a.m., police and FBI agents were attempting to serve a federal warrant at the home. After a search of the house was ...
Battling through a recession
Debbie Hauth and her husband have lived through recessions. They’ve lived with inflation. But these times — what we’re living through right now — are different, she says. “It seemed like we were standing on the edge for a long time,” says the school district ...
Officers kill homicide suspect in NE Portland confrontation
Portland homicide detectives said the man killed Tuesday evening, May 13, was a 27-year-old man who was a suspect in the killing of another man found inside a house in the 9100 block of Northeast Glisan Street. Police said Jason Spoor was shot by officers after they were called to the area at 8:26 ...
Portland School Board opposes $19 million ‘satellite district’
The Portland School Board has come out against the plan to send $19 million in downtown urban renewal dollars to the David Douglas School District in east Portland to help build a new grade school. Board Member Trudy Sargent was scheduled to present the board’s position to the Portland ...
City budget becomes issue in Portland mayor’s race
The Portland City Council on Wednesday morning heard an hour of testimony from two dozen people on an alternate version of the city’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2008-2009, which has sparked controversy over the past week. The council did not take a vote, but spoke about forging a ...
Many local races remain undecided
Oregon voters are making up their minds in the Democratic presidential primary election, flocking to Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton by a 55 percent to 35 percent margin, according to a recent poll commissioned by the Portland Tribune and KPTV 12 News and reported on the Tribune’s Web site ...
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Oregon’s premier pollster Tim Hibbitts says he doesn’t call any election till the votes are counted. However, if his latest poll (now appearing in your Portland Tribune) shows anything, things aren’t looking too good for Hillary Clinton. She’s trailing Barack Obama here ...
Kids rewrite book on fundraising
Yesterday, it was lemonade stands. Today, it’s recycling drives. Sekai Edwards, a fourth-grader at Northeast Portland’s Sabin Elementary School, was searching for a way to raise some cash to update the school’s desperately old and inadequate library. “Nobody can really ...
Q & A with Phil Geffner
If you didn’t know Phil Geffner grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan you’d guess he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It’s sort of an equation: not enough Brooklyn in Geffner’s accent, but plenty of attitude. Geffner has been running Escape From New York ...
Time may not be right for schools bond vote
After all the talk about the desperate need to upgrade and rebuild Portland Public Schools’ aging facilities, it looks as if the district may not ask voters to support a bond measure this November after all. The school board has not explicitly made that decision, or any decision yet, ...
Fall ballot may drop increased street fees
Commissioner Sam Adams may not ask Portland voters to approve a street improvement fee this November after all. After a protracted fight with fee opponents earlier this year, Adams said in February that he intended to ask the Portland City Council to place his “Safe, Sound and Green ...