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Dec 18, 2024 · Amid an $18 million budget deficit, Portland State University is laying off 17 non-tenure track faculty, citing “changes in programmatic and curricular needs.” The university issued layoff ...

Nov 8, 2024 · In District 2, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Sameer Kanal, and current City Commissioner Dan Ryan are all but guaranteed Council seats.The latest results show Ryan and Pirtle-Guiney were neck-and-neck in ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Expanding the allowable uses of SHS dollars could help speed up housing development, but the letter to Metro warns that slashing the tax rate won’t help the region achieve that.

May 2, 2024 · This story has been updated with the latest number of arrests and additional details about Thursday's police response and an attack on protesters. Police cleared Portland State University’s ...

Nov 6, 2024 · Multnomah County has released its second round of preliminary results for the Portland mayor and City Council races, adding roughly 47,000 more citywide votes to the election night count. The ...

Dec 24, 2024 · The Devil by Name is Keith Rosson’s continuation of 2023’s Fever House, in which Portland becomes the beginning of a worldwide zombie apocalypse.Rosson’s books are about a lot more than just ...

Oct 18, 2024 · Professors at Portland State University say the college is mishandling its budget, after PSU sent layoff notices to roughly 90 staffers Tuesday, October 15. More than 7 percent of the 1,200 ...

Dec 31, 2024 · 2024 marked the last year of Portland’s commission form of government. The year was punctuated by a scramble to implement a city charter overhaul and to get City Council chambers remodeled to ...

Jan 14, 2025 · Rainbow Girls According to Gilmore, he knew that the 2025 edition of Portland’s Folk Festival was going to be great because Bay-Area trio Rainbow Girls had already agreed to return, soon after ...