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BREAKING: Damian Lillard's return to Portland is in the works, with the sides deep in discussions about the franchise icon signing the Trail Blazers while rehabbing from torn Achilles tendon. oregonlive.com/sports/2025/07…

Update: The city agreed to pay Adena Long more than $142,000 to step down. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portland parks director resigns weeks after placed on administrative leave (and hours before City Council's scheduled vote to refer a significant parks levy increase to voters this fall). oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portland fire chief finalist asks for housing assistance on top of $247K salary & $10K stipend. City admin offers unilateral rule change to create special "carve in" for finalist. City blocks release of this info, reverses course after our appeal to DA. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Prosper Portland is in the biz of doling out low-interest loans to ec/dev ventures. Apparently, it also just granted a $45,000 NO-interest loan to its new exec director as a relocation bonus. Prosper says it plans to forgive the debt incrementally... oregonlive.com/business/2025/…

"So far in 2025, copper bandits have already done more than $500,000 worth of damage to streetlights and lighting junction boxes in the Portland metro, using prybars, bolt cutters, torches and sledge hammers to get at the valuable metal inside them." oregonlive.com/news/2025/07/c…

Johnson is just the third chief to be selected outside of Portland Fire & Rescue — and will be only the third woman to lead the bureau. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Latest fallout from Salem's transportation funding package implosion: Oregon has stopped paying Portland to remove homeless camps along major state-owned roadways within the city. However, ODOT's $1 million fence along I-405 will continue as planned. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

👀👀 "In a presentation to the Portland City Council last week, city budget officials showed that between 22% and 27% of the Transportation Bureau’s annual discretionary fund will be used to cover its current debt obligations over the next five years." oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Portland fire chief finalist poses w/ cigar & Portland firefighters union T-shirt in IG post days after city job offer. I ask if he's gotten the job. He responds: “I’m not sure why any post that I have made would indicate anything of that nature." 3 days later, he withdraws.

Portland's top pick for the city's next fire chief had bounced between at least four jobs in the last four years, currently works as a private contractor in Saudi Arabia & teased his PDX job offer on IG w/ a splashy post — days before abruptly backing out. oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

In major loss for Democrats, lawmakers advance ultra slim transportation bill with no new dollars for cities, counties, transit oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Prosper Portland has tapped a high-ranking economic development official from Birmingham, Alabama, to become its new executive director, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned. oregonlive.com/business/2025/…

👀👀 "As I look at the data that was made public, I’m reminded of my many years as an educator and teacher mentor—I’ve learned that shame and control rarely lead to lasting, positive change," Koyama Lane said. wweek.com/news/city/2025…

Portland councilors are complaining about their long-winded colleagues. Here’s who talks the most (and least) oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Big news at The Oregonian. And very good news, too. Laura Gunderson named editor of The Oregonian/OregonLive oregonlive.com/portland/2025/…

Novick, who routinely drops music, sports & pop culture references from the dais, also had this Beach Boys-inspired comment yesterday: "Brian Wilson just died. I hope that wherever he is he's sending us 'Good Vibrations' over the next hour & a half b/c God knows we need them."

“I have asked us many times today to move quickly and speak less, and I think for some of our colleagues that did not sink in." Portland City Council, with lots of talk but few major tweaks, nears final passage of mayor’s budget oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Wasn't until this morning that I realized Councilor Mitch Green was riffing on the Big Lebowski last night after Steve Novick lambasted his omnibus proposal as “the Green nihilism amendment.” My write-up of this week's marathon council budget meeting. 👇 oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

"Bespattered with memes, emojis and personal digs, the internal exchanges from 8:33 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. offer an extraordinary glimpse into the minute-by-minute musings of Prosper leadership while their agency’s future hung in the balance." oregonlive.com/news/2025/06/w…