For more than a century, Portland’s four elected commissioners have, like the mayor, held citywide office. That changed after the passage last November of Measure 26-228, which, among other things, ...

Photo by Benjamin Massello/Unsplash. For more than 100 years, all the members of Portland’s City Council have been elected citywide. That is about to change, after voters passed a major overhaul to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — During the November 2022 election, Portland-area voters approved a measure that will reform the city’s election system and form four new voting districts. The Independent ...

This remarkable map was first printed in 1896 (that’s not a typo) and was endorsed by the Multnomah Wheelmen cycling club. It was sold at the Oregon Historical Society gift store in the 1970s and then ...