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.
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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.
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Town Voices – While elected officials in Portland and other municipal and state governments are generally thought of as the policy leaders. City Managers and other civil service heads exert inordinate influence on policy in the realms of area expertise, policy direction and implementation, administrative discretion, executive orders, internal policies, hiring of consultants, bureaucratic procedure, and police enforcement. As a result, those elected to public office can find themselves beholden to the person they appoint as the City Manager.
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In the wake of an election where they were largely unsuccessful, now is the time to make some common-sense reforms to ballot initiatives.
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Building good cities is a blessing, not a sacrifice.
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Every city has two budgets – a budget of money, and a budget of land.
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An innocuous-seeming law is robbing renters and severely worsening the housing crisis – maybe forever.
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