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Portland neighborhood system searches for its place
By Allan Classen, NW Examiner Adam Lyons has lonely job at once-prominent agency In past decades, about 20 employees filled the downtown headquarters of Portland’s pioneering neighborhood association program. Now it is just Adam Lyons. “I am the program right now,” Lyons told the NW Examiner. Lyons has a cubicle in a sprawling — though…
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Sharp tensions emerge in City Council budget vote
The Portland City Council’s bruising battle to approve Mayor Keith Wilson’s $8.5 billion budgets revealed sharp ideological divisions among the 12 city councilors. The fight divided liberal councilors, including Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Dan Ryan, against a bloc of councilors further to the left, four of whom aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America…
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Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)
The Parks & Recreation Bureau has the distinction of having the biggest maintenance backlog of any City of Portland bureau—$600 million—a figure that exceeds the Gross National Product of eight countries in the United Nations including the Marshall Islands, Tonga and Sao Tome. And closer to home, that figure is twice the $276 million backlog…
