Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
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Reporter at The @Oregonian | Priors: @nydailynews; @crainsnewyork; @vocativ | Holler: [email protected]
Portland | Pacific Northwest
Joined September 2009
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
The 35-year-old, who is coming off of a torn Achilles tendon, spent the first 11 years of his illustrious career in Portland before requesting a trade and spending the last two seasons in Milwaukee.
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Update: The city agreed to pay Adena Long more than $142,000 to step down. https://t.co/8pFcMKYI1c
oregonlive.com
Adena Long was placed on administrative leave last month for undisclosed reasons.
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). https://t.co/8pFcMKYI1c
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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). https://t.co/8pFcMKYI1c
oregonlive.com
Adena Long was placed on administrative leave last month for undisclosed reasons.
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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. https://t.co/GD3vq3CFf8
oregonlive.com
City Administrator Michael Jordan floated a financial “carve in” to entice his desired pick to lead Portland Fire & Rescue, records obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive show.
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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... https://t.co/K8XHSvsm4v
oregonlive.com
Portland generally caps relocation assistance for new, non-union employees at $10,000. Prosper's offer is far higher.
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"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." https://t.co/CzEepVSGuD
oregonlive.com
The Oregon Department of Transportation has already spent more than $500,000 repairing streetlights in 2025.
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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. https://t.co/XoRyg2ab1O
oregonlive.com
Lauren Johnson will be just the third woman to lead Portland Fire & Rescue.
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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. https://t.co/HGBR9AvWaA
oregonlive.com
The move will likely lead to an increase in tents and trash along major state-owned roadways in Portland.
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👀👀 "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." https://t.co/p4WDh0qcAi
oregonlive.com
Mayor Keith Wilson warned that layoffs and a host of service reductions were likely coming.
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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. https://t.co/QVki9IFvvp
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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. https://t.co/QVki9IFvvp
oregonlive.com
Reginald Freeman, a former Oakland, Calif. fire chief now working as a private contractor in Saudi Arabia, agreed in writing to the $247,000-a-year position June 17.
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In major loss for Democrats, lawmakers advance ultra slim transportation bill with no new dollars for cities, counties, transit
oregonlive.com
Lawmakers failed to get any transportation funding proposal across the finish line before the session ended Friday.
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Prosper Portland has tapped a high-ranking economic development official from Birmingham, Alabama, to become its new executive director, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned. https://t.co/38GYOZbqFi
oregonlive.com
Reached by phone, the candidate confirmed he had accepted the Portland job.
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👀👀 "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. https://t.co/7ZwWyIdrJn
wweek.com
In a Friday morning email, Council Vice President Tiffany Koyama Lane—who in recent weeks has publicly clashed with Pirtle-Guiney—took umbrage at the president’s actions.
Portland councilors are complaining about their long-winded colleagues. Here’s who talks the most (and least) https://t.co/udjx0LfmFI
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Portland councilors are complaining about their long-winded colleagues. Here’s who talks the most (and least) https://t.co/udjx0LfmFI
oregonlive.com
Some members of Portland’s new 12-person City Council have had an awful lot to say during their first six months in office.
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Big news at The Oregonian. And very good news, too. Laura Gunderson named editor of The Oregonian/OregonLive https://t.co/axZomHQlxv
oregonlive.com
Gunderson joined the newsroom in 1995 and has served in a variety of roles.
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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."
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. 👇 https://t.co/tARkRr1vCg
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“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 https://t.co/tARkRr1vCg
oregonlive.com
“I know there’s a lot being left on the table. I think everybody up here is disappointed and frustrated,” Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said Wednesday night.
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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. 👇 https://t.co/tARkRr1vCg
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"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." https://t.co/P8YXfGol1s
oregonlive.com
Bespattered with memes, emojis and personal digs, the internal exchanges disclose Prosper Portland employees' reactions as their agency’s future hung in the balance.
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