Category: Opinion

In this opinion article, Ashley Keenan describes both the need for rent control reform, and the reasons that Question A is not the reform Portland is looking for.

Data analyst and urban policy advocate Todd Morse explains the crucial opportunity being squandered by an opaque staff process, using interactive maps and detailed breakdowns of the data. Planning staff are using a convoluted tactic to undermine LD2003 and change as little as possible in complying with the state’s housing law. Make your voice heard to push for more before it is too late.

In this editorial, Ashley Keenan asks you to consider whether, given the onslaught of trolls, the depersonalization of politics, and the interminable frustration, it’s time to give up on pandemic-era Zoom comments.

If the City Council is supposed to meet at least twice each month, why does it sometimes only meet on one night? In this column, learn more about the interesting loophole behind double-meetings, and the potentially deleterious effects it can have on an overstretched council.

In the wake of an election where they were largely unsuccessful, now is the time to make some common-sense reforms to ballot initiatives.

Building good cities is a blessing, not a sacrifice.

Every city has two budgets – a budget of money, and a budget of land.