Sophie Peel
Staff Reporter at Willamette Week
City Hall and politics reporter @wweek. Holler: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The regional government Metro will contribute $15 million toward Mayor Keith Wilson’s ambitious shelter plan, providing about half of the money Wilson says he needs to stand up thousands of shelter beds in the coming year. The Metro Council on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the $15 million in unused administrative dollars from the Supportive Housing Services tax, an unusual allocation given that such funds are typically directed to counties, not cities.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
Earlier this month, city officials informed a Portland nonprofit that one of its three contracts to run tiny pod villages probably wouldn’t be renewed. Instead, the city told Sunstone Way, officials had entered into contract negotiations with Urban Alchemy, a San Francisco-based shelter provider, to operate Multnomah Safe Rest Village.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
These are difficult times for Oregon Public Broadcasting as it faces challenges from within and without. The Trump Administration is threatening to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, creating uncertainty for its affiliate stations, like OPB, which receives about 9% of its funding from the federal government. The station’s workforce unionized in early 2024, giving OPB’s employees a bigger say in company decisions.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
Moses Ross, a longtime political consultant and beloved neighborhood advocate in Multnomah Village, died from an asthma attack last week. He was 58. For two decades, Ross ran Smart Voter Contact, a phone bank that reaches out to voters for Democratic Party candidates. He spent three years leading the Multnomah Village Neighborhood Association and played a key role as the city of Portland set up its first tiny pod village in the neighborhood.
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2 weeks ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The Portland Association of Teachers over the weekend penned a letter expressing “strong” opposition to adding the the Portland Police Association to the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, the largest labor coalition in the state. “Adding PPA to a labor coalition is contrary to actions and positions PAT has taken about police reform, actions that PPA has fought,” PAT president Angela Bonilla, on behalf of the union’s executive board, wrote.
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