Mayor Charlie Hales: We’re using a measured approach to take back Portland’s sidewalks By Charlie Hales, Guest Column in The Oregonian, August 14, 2013 Lawlessness on Portland sidewalks is not a new issue, nor is it an easy one. So this summer, we crafted a plan to address lawlessness on the public right-of-way. The plan […]
By Denis C. Theriault, The Portland Mercury, August 14, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales, as of this afternoon, has now had three informal meetings with business interests, law enforcement, and social services providers to get up to speed on homelessness—a difficult subject he announced he’d be taking on during his State of the City speech this […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, July 13, 2013 Occupy Portland continues to ally with Portland’s homeless, periodically joining them at the 4th & Madison campsite. Just like 2011, the 2013 campsite has a surplus of donated food – and drugs, and trash. Just like 2011, City Hall is trying to ignore the whole thing. –Eds. The […]
By Ryan Kost, The Oregonian, June 3, 2013 After months of keeping all of the city’s bureaus for himself, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales reassigned them late Monday, doling out major assignments to every commissioner while scrambling them considerably from where they were before he took office. With the budget approved last Wednesday, Hales was finally […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Nov. 28, 2012 Portland’s City Council Wednesday unanimously voted to extend a tax to all land-line phone service providers – an idea that Mayor Sam Adams pushed to raise millions of dollars a year for federally-mandated police reforms. The vote came amid protest from representatives of Century Link and Frontier, […]
From the Oregonian, September 27, 2012 Portland Police Chief Mike Reese is returning Sgt. Kyle Nice, who has been working behind a desk following two police internal investigations, back to patrol duty. Nice has been on desk duty while he faced internal investigations for his role in an off-duty road rage encounter and for his […]
PPA Press Release on Employment Relations Boards Decisions By Daryl Turner, PPAVigil.org, September 25, 2012 Integrity is essential to the believability of information produced during an investigation. The Employment Relations Board ruling in the Officer [Ronald] Frashour case asserts that during their investigation they have reviewed and researched all the information provided to them by […]
From the Oregonian, July 12, 2012 An arbitrator has ordered the city of Portland to dismiss two-week suspensions against former Officer Christopher Humphreys and Sgt. Kyle Nice stemming from the death-in-custody of James P. Chasse Jr. in September 2006. ARBITRATOR’S OPINION AND AWARD CHRIS HUMPHREYS / KYLE NICE GRIEVANCE IN THE MATTER OF THE ARBITRATION […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, March 01, 2012 It was about 9pm on a blustery, rain-soaked Tuesday night — and, yet, thanks to a horde of Mardi Gras revelers, Old Town was unusually festive. Precisely what happened next isn’t exactly clear, but the basic inflections of the story, told by a handful of different […]
By Sarah Mirk, The Portland Mercury, Wed, Feb 1, 2012 Homeless advocates got started early on their Wednesday morning protest to urge city council to waive the fines on the Right 2 Dream, Too tent city—really early. Last night at 10pm, about 70 protesters met outside city hall, setting up a free coffee stand and […]
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