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The City’s Public Campaign Financing Program Allowed Candidates With Little Support to Snag Taxpayer Dollars
Portland’s program works like this: Candidates who receive 250 or more donations qualify for public funds, multiplying each ...
Willamette Week18m
Murmurs: Group to Evaluate Preschool for All Tax Increase
The debate over whether to increase the Preschool for All tax, and by how much, rages on. At a Nov. 12 advisory committee ...
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Does Seattle’s Public Campaign Financing Program Provide More Safeguards Around Taxpayer Dollars Than Portland’s?
Seattle’s model for public campaign financing, its proponents argue, places stronger safeguards around taxpayer dollars. That ...
Willamette Week6h
Growing Up Trumped
On Nov. 6, the day after a national election that sent Donald Trump back to the White House, Elijah Graham and Owen King, who ...
Willamette Week8h
Portland Retailers and Mayor Ted Wheeler Want to Fix a Hole in Oregon’s Bottle Bill
If you wander into a Plaid Pantry in Portland’s central city, there’s a decent chance you’ll see huge bags of empty cans and ...
Willamette Week14h
Mother Foucault’s Bookshop Needs Your Help Moving
As a young bibliophile living in a small town in Southwest Washington, I would daydream about browsing in my ideal bookshop, ...
Willamette Week15h
Unpaid Bills at Department of Forestry Lead Kotek to Call Special Session
Gov. Tina Kotek today said she’s calling the Legislature into a special session Dec. 12 to deal with a stack of unpaid bills ...
Willamette Week19h
Beer and Cheer at Portland Holiday Brew Fest
Portland Holiday Brew Fest at Pioneer Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. pdxholidaybrewfest.com/. 5:30-9 pm Friday Dec. 6, Noon-9 pm ...