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Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Report on Civic Life Released Today Documents Culture of Fear and Abusive Management “Most interviewees and survey participants felt the bureau cannot move forward with Suk [Rhee] as director citing her lack of concern for employee experience, bullying behavior, and hierarchical and condescending style of leadership.” Cycling...

Former Portland director helped plunge bureau into toxic turmoil, says report city tried to bury Updated 6:47 PM; Today 6:45 PM Facebook Share Several members of a troubled Portland city bureau, including its recently departed director, helped plunge the agency into turmoil and cultivated a toxic work environment, according to a report released Tuesday. Behavior by former head Suk Rhee and four other Office of Community & Civic Life employees left many who worked for or with them feeling beli...

Portland bureau director departs amid reported dysfunction, ‘culture of fear’ Updated 11:17 AM; Today 11:17 AM Facebook Share The head of a Portland city bureau reportedly plagued by widespread dysfunction and a “culture of fear” will leave her post at the end of the week. Suk Rhee, the director of the Office of Community & Civic Life, made the announcement Thursday in a joint statement with Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who has overseen the bureau since January. Previously named the ...

DA orders Portland to release controversial bureau audit May 11 2021 The City Attorneys Office had refused to release the third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life. The Multnomah County District Attorney has ordered Portland officials to release a third-party audit of an embattled bureau. District Attorney Mike Schmidt said the audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life was not exempt from disclosure as the Portland City Attorneys Office had claimed. In a Tuesda...

May 12 2021 The Portland City Commissioner said the audit of the embattled bureau should be released before Thursdays vote on next years budget. Portland Commissioner Mingus Mapps is calling on the city to release the contested third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life before the Thursday, May 13, vote on next years budget. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt ordered Portland officials to release the audit of the embattled bureau on Tuesday, May 11. Schmidt said...

Crews return barriers around federal courthouse in Portland PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Crews have set up fencing around a federal courthouse in downtown Portland on Sunday just days after removing the barriers following multiple protests and vandalism on and around the building, authorities said. Federal officials told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the fencing was removed from the Hatfield Federal Courthouse on March 8 as a symbolic gesture to return the city to normalcy, KOIN-TV reported Monday...

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez The Department of Homeland Security has chosen a most odd time to take down the F-word and ACAB-festooned fencing and jersey barriers protecting the federal courthouse in Portland. Last May, after a fentanyl-addled George Floyd was held down for an agonizingly long time (nine minutes) under the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, riots broke out in his name, at first in Minneapolis and then across the country, especially in “woke” Portland. Fast forward to now, when ...

City permanently cuts funds to Portland neighborhood group Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, February 26, 2021 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland commissioner has decided to permanently cut funding from a neighborhood group after an audit found that money had been mismanaged. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who oversees the city’s civic life bure...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Former Portland Mayor Sam Adams Will Join Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Office, Although Not as Chief of Staff The former city commissioner and chief of staff to former Mayor Vera Katz came up short in a 2020 election bid but enjoys strong support downtown. Sam Adams The hiring has been rumored since late December, and the possibilit...

Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan was the swing vote on a proposal to cut $18 million from the city’s police budget. That proposal came from fellow Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty and was supported by Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. A group of Antifa/BLM activists saw Ryan as a potential third vote to pass the measure. Several dozen of them marched to Ryan’s house in late October and began chanting. Protesters have taken to city council commissioner Dan Ryan’s home to ask him to defund PPB pic....