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Portlandâs Best Sidewalk Skatepark (opens the original)
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Sean Cullen just wanted the people of Woodstock to stop letting their dogs crap in his yard. âEvery day, youâd find 20 more [droppings] out here,â he recalls. âIt was a big stinking mess.â Cullen figured the best way to discourage loitering in the alley behind his rented home was to show the area was being maintained. The sidewalk that ran along the gravel road was a cracked, jagged path to nowhere. The obvious solution? Build a concrete skate bowl corner. Maybe not obvious to most peo
Hunting and Fishing Ban Fails to Make November Ballot (opens the original)
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Initiative Petition 28, an animal rights measure that sought to criminalize hunting, fishing, ranching and pest control in Oregon, has failed to make the November ballot after state election officials say it failed two rounds of signature verification. Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Readâs office announced the disqualification late Friday afternoon. The IP 28 campaign submitted 142,784 signatures on July 2. To qualify for the ballot, the petition needed 117,173 verified signatures. That woul
County Delays Moda Center Funding Vote After Skepticism From Key Labor Union (opens the original)
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The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners postponed its scheduled vote Thursday on whether to contribute $88 million to the renovation of Moda Center. The delay is the latest wrinkle in what is becoming a fraught campaign to use public dollars to anchor the Trail Blazers basketball team to Portland. Commissioner Shannon Singleton successfully called to delay the vote until Aug. 6, a week before the Portland City Council decides on its $120 million share. Her request was unexpected, given that
Phil Stanford Has Literally Written the Book on Michael Franckeâs Murder (opens the original)
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For more than 35 years, columnist and author Phil Stanford has picked away at the unsolved 1989 murder of Michael Francke, who at the time of his fatal stabbing outside his Salem office served as the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections. As The Oregonianâs Metro columnist from 1987 to 1994, Stanford wrote dozens of columns about the case, many of them dismissive of the stateâs prosecution of a small-time Salem drug dealer named Frank Gable. Stanfordâs fascination with the murde
Portland Officials Send Blazers a Draft Term Sheet for Arena Funding (opens the original)
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Portland city leaders took the first step toward breaking an impasse over public funding of Moda Center renovations on Thursday afternoon. Following a four-hour executive session, they presented the Portland Trail Blazers with a draft term sheet detailing what Portland taxpayers should expect in return for contributing at least $120 million to the arena overhaul. The significance of the draft term sheet is not really in its terms. It was that the City Council, after weeks of balking, at least ta
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