Politics
Portland's wired water world
How the Water Bureau used the Internet to turn H2O from household drudge to rock star.
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
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Politics
Downtown's hired guns
Police officer or security guard? In Portland you have to get pretty close to tell.
Politics
MAXimum security in Portland
Cameras are everywhere in the transit system – on buses and trains and in the stations.
Politics
Portland's commissioners and their bureaus are alive and, well, a pain
Mayor Tom Potter: "Every day I go to work, I have to figure out how to work around it."
Politics
An education-reform group takes on the status quo
In Oregon, Chalkboard is trying to extend influence to Salem, where it counts. But politics make the pursuit of straightforward goals complicated.