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May 18 special election includes Portland School Board seats, Oregon Historical Society levy Today 5:15 AM A child helps place an adult's ballot in a drop box at Multnomah County Elections headquarters. LC- Mark Graves Facebook Share By The Oregonian/OregonLive This year’s May election is a special election, meaning voters are seeing only local candidates -- city councils, school boards, fire districts and the like -- and local ballot measures. It’s too late to mail your ballot to have it counted in time. Instead, take your ballot to a drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday. Find the one closest t...

Portland school board candidates have collected $100,000. The single largest donor? The teachers union Today 8:35 AM Facebook Share Portland school board candidates have brought in nearly $100,000 in donations and more than one quarter of that cash has so far come from one source: the union representing the district’s educators. With a week to go until Election Day, the Portland Association of Teachers has donated $13,000 each to the campaigns of Herman Greene and Gary Hollands, both of whom the union endorsed, campaign disclosure reports indicate. Greene’s race, a four-way contest for t...

Presented by Berklee's Songwriting Department and Songs for Social Change initiative, the annual contest encourages students to write songs that promote positive change.

Candidates queue up for board seats at Portland Public Schools School board hopefuls campaign largely on district's shortcomings and past failures This year's Portland Public Schools Board election would've been like any other if not for Zone 4, which represents North Portland. Rita Moore, the current director, is not running for re-election this May. At one point, the Zone 4 race had seven candidates on record. Four people have since dropped out of the race, leaving Margo Logan, Brooklyn Sherman and Herman Greene to appear on the ballot. Another candidate, Jaime Golden Cale, annou...

Brim-Edwards is the lone incumbent running. She represents Zone 6, which includes neighborhoods east of Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard from Interstate 84 south to Holgate Boulevard.