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Bill Walton played basketball, soccer and Frisbee at Wallace Park, on NW 25th Avenue, during his days with the Trail Blazers.
A candidate running for the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners is defending lucrative contracts awarded to her husband by a community organization they both oversee. Jessie Burke, owner of the Society Hotel in downtown Portland, and Posies Café in North Portland, is a Multnomah County Commissioner candidate, as well as the board chair of the Old Town Community Association (OTCA). Her husband, Jonathan Cohen, serves as the treasurer for OTCA’s board. Last February, the OTCA...
Portland leaders moved Wednesday to replace the city’s outright ban on daytime homeless camping with a scaled-back version, months after a legal challenge halted enforcement of the more restrictive measure.
Portlanders had their say Wednesday on two competing ordinances that would govern enforcement of homeless camps on city property.
After a series of proposed changes and late-stage amendments, Portland City Council is on track to relax its city codes regulating houselessness. The Council took an initial vote Wednesday to approve amendments to a revamped public camping ordinance put forward by Mayor Ted Wheeler, with changes from Commissioners Carmen Rubio and Mingus Mapps. The new ordinance, which still requires a final council vote, replaces city code adopted last June that was met with a lawsuit...