City Budget Cuts Hits PP&R Hard
By Don MacGillivray The City of Portland held a large Town-Hall Meeting April 2 to review and discuss the forthcoming City Budget at the Immigrant a…
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SE Updates
By Midge Pierce Demolition Harms Climate Too When it comes to climate change, our ecologically-minded city is steeped in contradictions. The sust…
Litter & Graffiti CleanUp
Metro and KINK Radio holds the second annual “Paint the Town Green” litter and graffiti cleanup events, Saturday June 1, from 9 am-1 pm. Last year’s…
Community News May 2019
Montavilla Farmer’s Market opens Montavilla Farmers Market invites you to join us as we kick off our 13th season on May 5th! We’ll have fresh local …
Climate Action Plan
By Midge Pierce Addressing climate change is ever more urgent as weather gets weirder, polar ice sheets melt and fires get hotter. A glimmer of g…
2019 State Housing Bill Updates that Affect SE Portland
By David Krogh HB2001 was amended by the House Committee on Human Services and Housing and was referred to the Joint Ways and Means Committee on Apr…
Educational Crisis Builds Funding Pressure
By Midge Pierce The expectation that dozens of teaching positions will be eliminated next year despite the Portland Public School (PPS) Superintende…
City Club Initiates Public Meetings for De-Commissioning Discussion
By David Krogh The City Club held a public meeting Wednesday, April 10, in the community room at McMennamin’s Kennedy School to initiate public disc…
Fritz to Retire in 2020
By David Krogh City Commissioner Amanda Fritz announced on April 5 that she would retire after her current term is up in 2020 and not run for re-el…
Laurelhurst Neighborhood Receives National Historic Recognition
It’s official! After years of work by hundreds of community volunteers, the Laurelhurst Neighborhood has been added to the National Register of Histori…