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Last year, apartment construction in Portland metro area fell to levels not seen since 2013. See the numbers. www.wweek.com/news/2025/03...

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Portland Public Schools has a math problem. In total, the district is overbuilding by more than 4,400 students—enough to fill more than two high schools. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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Starting in 2025, and for the foreseeable future, the Rose City will host rival World Naked Bike Rides. www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Joseph Nazir’s use of milk, dark and white chocolate cancel out the overwhelming aspects of each flavor that challenge chocolate critics. www.wweek.com/drink/2025/0...

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State prosecutors have charged newly seated Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside with eight counts of felony theft, saying she forged the signature of a state lawmaker and defrauded an 83-year-old man of at least $74,000. www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

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The creation of the Tree Code was well intentioned. But the result is one of the most unpopular policies in the city, a set of rules so inflexible and ruthlessly enforced that at least one family says it spurred their decision to leave town. www.wweek.com/news/2025/03...

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The lender to Block 216, Walter Bowen’s gleaming West End skyscraper, sounded an ominous note about the property in an earnings report Monday. www.wweek.com/news/busines...

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Amid a collection of French and Japanese art lies the exhibition’s centerpiece: an unnamed painting from among roughly 250 entries in Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series which has never been shown at a major institution outside of Monet’s personal dining room. www.wweek.com/arts/visual-...

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The county chair wanted more money. Instead, she got more questions. www.wweek.com/news/2025/03...

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Portland city administrator Mike Jordan released preliminary recommendations Friday morning to narrow the city’s $93 million general fund shortfall, not to mention an additional $65 million in shortfalls in the parks, transportation, permitting, water and sewer bureaus. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

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“We have received an email threat purporting to be from the person(s) responsible,” SAIF CEO Chip Terhune wrote in a Feb. 22 email. “Although it does not target any specific employee, the email references knowledge of employee and relatives' names and addresses.” www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Milagro Theatre, Portland’s premier Latino arts and culture center, has pulled a March run of shows of "The Macbeths," citing remarks by its co-creator and star Mary McDonald-Lewis that disparaged gender transitions. www.wweek.com/arts/theater...

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Alexa Numkena-Anderson has garnered a serious following from fans and critics for her bison meatloaf, blue corn cakes, and fry bread tacos. When she’s not working at her new brick-and-mortar location, the chef’s out supporting businesses in her community. www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Chip Terhune, the CEO of the nonprofit worker’s compensation insurer SAIF Corp., told his neighbors in a message that somebody fired three shots through his front door early Friday morning. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson today added new tension to a difficult budget season by announcing a $104 million budget shortfall facing the Joint Office of Homeless Services. www.wweek.com/news/county/...

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Oregon lawmakers from both parties are scrambling to respond to a sagebrush rebellion against a state-issued wildfire hazard map. @oregonjournalism.bsky.social www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Vance Day, a former judge best known in Oregon for being suspended from the Marion County Circuit Court bench, has accepted a senior position in the U.S. Department of Justice. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Prosper Portland flouted all its own risk guidelines when it approved a $7 million loan to an ambitious footwear manufacturing hub last week. Project so far is almost entirely funded with public dollars. Gov. Kotek is unhappy. Lots more I can't fit into this. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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The loan is bigger, for a longer duration, and at a lower interest rate than the agency’s guidelines would suggest is prudent. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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The city of Portland announced on Tuesday morning that the directors of its public utilities will both retire next month. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

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West Linn-Winsonville parents are alarmed that state officials use the honor system to police the curriculum that schools use. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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No one really knows why there are so many murders of crows in downtown and Northwest Portland lately. But Gary Granger isn’t so concerned about that; he just likes to observe the crows and map how many there are on any given night. www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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“Teacher satisfaction is important. But if teacher satisfaction is not leading to improved outcomes for kids, then I think it’s a real conversation about what business are we in here?” www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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The people who live, run businesses, and serve hot meals to the homeless in Old Town would like to be known for something other than sensational headlines. But the question of what transformation looks like has sparked conflict of its own. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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PRIZE CALL! We're giving away 2 x $150 Gift Cards to Knott Springs + our limited edition 50th Anniversary Book. Send your BEST snow pics to [email protected] today for a chance to be featured in WW, and WIN! The top two snow pics get the prize! Let's see those snow angels, Portland!

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What’s the thing you love? Think about it for a second. Keep that thought close as you explore this year’s Reasons to Love Portland, a list of 25 ways people of this city are unabashedly fulfilling their fantasies. www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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At a budget forum, Superintendent Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong said the school district would soon launch discussions about closing schools. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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Facing a forecast of frigid overnight lows early this week, followed by an ice storm on Valentine’s Day, Multnomah County opened three emergency warming shelters tonight. www.wweek.com/news/environ...

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Filmed on VHS tape, "Hiding Henry" straddles the line between an amazing art school project and an unapologetically abrasive, anti-commercial experiment in endurance viewing. Several viewers in the audience quit and went home before the climactic payoff. www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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City of Portland will join other sanctuary cities in lawsuit against Trump's executive orders that threaten to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

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The Portland field office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services abruptly canceled a naturalization ceremony slated to be held at the Oregon Historical Society next week, the organization’s executive director tells WW. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Antisemitic incidents in Oregon more than tripled to a record in 2023, in line with a record-breaking surge at the national level, the Anti-Defamation League said in a new report on extremism in the Northwest. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Portland State University on Monday, alleging widespread antisemitic harassment at the institution. The investigation comes as a result of an executive order from President Donald Trump. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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Over the weekend, state Sen. Jeff Golden unveiled a possible funding source for the cash-strapped Oregon Department of Forestry: a one-time diversion of the kicker, Oregon’s unique personal income tax rebate. www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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Seven in 100 homes statewide in Oregon are vacant, a rate 36% lower than the national average. And data shows the vacancy rate is tightest outside of Portland. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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Former City Council member Carmen Rubio is under consideration for a top role at Multnomah County. By Anthony Effinger. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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Since the summer of 2020, PPS has pledged to aid its Black students through three capital projects. But none of the three projects has broken ground. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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Comedian Ally J. Ward is already having quite a 2025. The year started with a breakup, a move, and a layoff from her restaurant job. Then, she found out that a poll of comedy insiders had crowned her Portland’s Funniest Person. www.wweek.com/arts/comedy/...

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Portland Public Schools has paused its project to relocate Harriet Tubman Middle School, and doesn’t know when it will resume, according to an email from top district officials to community members on Monday night. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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A new ballot initiative filed Jan. 27 would repeal previously approved obstacles to the development of commercial nuclear power plants in Oregon. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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A woman has sued Eugene-based Mandala Journey Work LLC for promising a peaceful four-day experience at a “tranquil” home with strolls in the forest, but instead delivering a cramped Airbnb with short walks in a city park. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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As nearly 5,000 Providence Health nurses, doctors, midwives and other workers remain on strike in Hood River, Medford, Newberg, Seaside and several metro-area locations, lawmakers may soon consider extending a benefit now available only in a couple of states. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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Staff writer Chris Lydgate applies his signature empathetic writing style to this moving portrait of Denny and Brent Olson, a father-son duo forever bound by Brent’s debilitating struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. www.wweek.com/archive/2025...

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We lost David Lynch last week—as if that were even possible. Particularly in the Pacific Northwest, his cult runs in the water and nests in the soil. www.wweek.com/arts/movies/...

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Minestrone translates literally to “big soup,” so it’s only natural to cook up a big pot. And even if you don’t have to feed a crowd, you can always freeze some for later. www.wweek.com/food/2025/01...

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Maya Pueo von Geldern wants to do anything in her power to help Los Angeles recover from wildfires. But she’s not impressed by what the Portland Public Schools Board actually did. www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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My Father’s Place feels like the spiritual brother of the dearly departed diner The Roxy across the river, down to the quirky decorations like a vintage, functional Magic Egg Machine amid duct tape-patched booths. www.wweek.com/food/2025/01...

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“It just was not making sense,” says Kristine Erb, a retired nurse who lives next to CJP Ranch. “Where are they getting all this money?” www.wweek.com/news/2025/01...

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Everyone deserves a chance to fly, and if the tickets that theater patrons bought to hear those lyrics in Wicked turn out to be bogus, at least they should get a swift refund. So argues a class action lawsuit filed Monday. www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

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