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Multnomah County is set to pay a marketing agency nearly a quarter-million dollars to collect feedback on the county’s ...
Multnomah County has joined two federal lawsuits that are challenging the Trump Administration’s threat to withhold federal ...
The county joins 60 local governments challenging federal mandates that threaten $126 million in funding for housing, health ...
Multnomah County is the latest local government to join a lawsuit over federal grant conditions tied to controversial Trump-era mandates.On Thursday, the county officially joined two lawsuits—King ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - An audit of the Multnomah County Jail has found that jail sanctions are worsening inequity. Jail ...
After a budget session that brought “painful tradeoffs,” Multnomah County is shutting down its Passport Program amid budget constraints.
Last year, Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards floated a proposal to temper the power of the board’s chair and bring reforms to how the county commission does business. With three ...
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved an additional $28.6 million to largely fund rent assistance to prevent homelessness for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ...
Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Elected leaders across the Portland region and state are fuming after Multnomah County announced a $104 million budget shortfall in its homeless services department ...
Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is floating a 22% cut to the county’s homeless services programs in the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Multnomah County Auditor Jennifer McGuirk found no evidence of mismanagement in the county's budget process, but did find that it's unnecessarily opaque.
Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program, which aims to create 12,000 subsidized preschool slots by 2030, was by last fall struggling to meet the goals it laid out for Portland voters in 2020.