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A month after MultCo Chair Jessica Vega Pederson's disastrous rollout and announcement of a massive homeless services spending shortfall, we apparently finally have the fall guy: Homeless Services Department Director Dan Field to "retire" June 16.

Portland extends job for top public safety official who’s been working from Las Vegas oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portland Doom Loop? Nah, says Mayor Keith Wilson. "We need every day champions of 'boom loop' thinking." Full letter 👇 content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORPOR…

Update: Text messages sent between Field and county spox Julie Sullivan-Springhetti on Feb. 4 show Field disclosed his intention to retire weeks before shortfall announcement. "I want to have a 'no drama' departure... a footnote rather than a headline." oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portland Councilor Steve Novick tells me that he, Jamie Dunphy and Angelita Morillo want to increase the city's clean energy fund tax on large retailers in order to plug the $93M budget gap in the city's general fund. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

3 transcendent moments, 1 day. A suburban SoCal strip mall on a sunny Friday morning, eating Mexican food & reading “Wuthering Heights.” A rented Volkswagen Jetta speeding toward downtown LA with Macadam Crocodile on blast. A massive Fernando Valenzuela mural off the 101.

My wife's six-year journey toward becoming a nurse — which began as an ex-pastry chef/FT mom taking classes PT at PCC & included giving her dad a kidney, Covid setbacks & an 18-month accelerated program at OHSU — has concluded. Her first day in the Providence ER is April 21. 🥳

Dan Handelman, a longtime police accountability advocate in Portland whose encyclopedic knowledge of officer misconduct and exacting commitment to accountability, died Wednesday at the age of 60. oregonlive.com/portland/2025/…

Multnomah County leaders voted Thursday to pull $2.2 million from libraries, health, homeless services & other departments to pay for beefed-up security, including a new personal detail for Chair Jessica Vega Pederson. via Austin De Dios oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

It's here! Portland Mayor Keith Wilson unveiled a proposed $8.5 billion Monday that would hike numerous city fees and slash municipal jobs while also preserving and even boosting basic services centered around public safety and livability. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

😵‍💫 "Multnomah County will pay up to $250,000 for an outside contractor to draft the government’s new strategic plan after budgeting out over $1.1 million last year to form a five-member internal team to complete the same work." oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Oops. Oregon House Republicans confirm they made $50 million goof when dismissing need for transportation tax hike oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Homeless people will no longer get tents from Multnomah County, except in severe weather via Lillian Mongeau Hughes oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Oregon’s largest office building, a tower that defines Portland’s skyline, for sale Jonathan Bach with the scoop. oregonlive.com/business/2025/…

Portland residents to see largest water, sewer rate hike in more than a decade. Bill for avg. household will top $1,900/yr come July. City officials also say that big rate increases forecasted over the next five years will likely climb even higher. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Brutal bike crash coming off the Hawthorne Bridge into downtown. Tires hit the new textured yellow lane divider in the rain. Went face-first into the guardrail. Hanging out in the Providence ER with a softball-sized welt. Fingers crossed I don’t have a concussion!

As members of the Portland City Council push cuts to police, ecdev & other services, many are also quietly cutting six-figure checks from their own enlarged office budgets to fund district pet projects. A number are up for reeleciton next year. 👇 oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portlanders already facing the largest water & sewer rate hike in more than a decade will soon be on the hook for a processing fee as well. For a typical Portland household, that will amount to $56.74/yr on top of the $1,923.48/yr they are set to pay. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

City of Portland, Prosper Portland to pay $2 million, give land to Black descendants in Albina case oregonlive.com/portland/2025/…

"As part of the agreement, the city acknowledges that Portland’s zoning code, lending practices and urban renewal policies led to 'systemic discrimination' and segregation that harmed Black communities." oregonlive.com/portland/2025/…