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. Bureau Assignment Memos Show Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Focused on Paranoid Park and Food Carts Wheeler issued more prescriptive guidance than City Hall staff can recall him handing out in previous years. Downtown Portland food carts. (Alex Wittwer) Updated January 20 In the run-up to his narrow November reelection victory, Mayor Ted Wheeler apologized for going it alone too often in his first term and promised more collaboration and concrete results if he won a second term.