Sophie Peel
Staff Reporter at Willamette Week
City Hall and politics reporter @wweek. Holler: [email protected]
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Feds Investigating $6.7 Million in Allegedly Stolen Vendor Payments from Bull Run Filtration Project
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wweek.com | Sophie Peel
The City of Portland sued a Manhattan law firm in New York state court last week, alleging that $6.7 million in city dollars ended up in a firm-controlled bank account after someone posing as a city vendor routed the money to the firm’s account.
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wweek.com | Sophie Peel
A poll commissioned by two members of the Portland City Council show that Portlanders would prefer that budget cuts be made to the police bureau and homeless services rather than parks and firefighters. The results of the poll, conducted by DHM Research and commissioned by Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Councilor Steve Novick, is sure to rankle the police bureau and its union, which have consistently said that the public wouldn’t stand for cuts to public safety.
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wweek.com | Sophie Peel
As Bananarama sang, it ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. The most recent meeting of the Portland City Council dragged on for five hours, and some of the holdup hinged on questions of process. The at times contentious discussion over a routine budget amendment ran for over an hour of an April 16 meeting that ran till almost 11 pm before the councilors finally called it quits.
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2 days ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo last week pulled back a proposed ban on the use of AI software to set rents, after one of the companies most often accused of price-fixing sued the city of Berkeley, California over a similar ban. RealPage sued the city of Berkeley, California in federal court earlier this month over legislation it passed in March banning AI software to set rents.
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3 days ago |
wweek.com | Sophie Peel
An FBI investigation into the dealings of former Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has ended. No criminal charges were filed. The feds opened an investigation into Fagan after WW revealed in the spring of 2023 that she had signed a $10,000-per-month consulting contract with Aaron Mitchell and Rosa Cazares, cannabis industry moguls who were prominent donors to Fagan.
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City Administrator Mike Jordan, in an usual move, stopped short of recommending roughly $60 million in budget cuts necessary to create a balanced budget. That leaves a set of politically hazardous decisions in front of the new council. https://t.co/w54FyyZv8H
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