The Weekly Catch Celebrating Older Adults and An Age-Friendly City Nick Fish Blog Friends of Trees Leadership Awards Nick Fish Blog St. John’s Bizarre Celebration Happening this Saturday Rachel Rafanelli in KGW News MET Celebrates Silver Anniversary The Portland Tribune Budget Wheeler Requests Fewer Police in Revised Budget Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Reaches Budget Compromise with City Council to Fund 49 New Police Officers Rachel Monahan in Willamette Week Mayor Wheeler Bends to Fund Community Centers in City Budget Alex Zielinski in the Portland Mercury Unreinforced Masonry Retrofit Earthquake Safety Resolution Vote Postponed Until June Kelly Kenoyer in the Portland Mercury Portland Pushes to Retrofit Brick Buildings for Earthquakes Brian Brennan in KGW News The Price of Making Portland Buildings Earthquake Safe Cole Miller and KOIN 6 News Portland Considers Ways to Ease Financial Burden of Seismic Upgrades on Businesses KATU News Portland’s Affordable Housing Includes 2,090 Units in Buildings That Would Crumble in a Big Earthquake Rachel Monahan in Willamette Week City Council Begins Planning for Portland’s Looming Earthquake Kelly Kenoyer in the Portland Mercury Councilors Eye Code Change for Portland Buildings Likely to Collapse in Big Earthquake KATU News In Other News Where EAST Meets the Northwest Maileen Hamto in The Asian Reporter Tour the Columbia South Shore Well Field Columbia Slough Watershed Council in The Skanner In a Reversal, Portland City Council Gives Preliminary Approval to a High-Rise in the Pearl District Rachel Monahan in Willamette Week Portland City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly Plans Reforms of Renter Screening Criteria Rachel Monahan in Willamette Week Neighborhood Associations Hope to Switch 82nd Avenue Ownership from ODOT to City Kellee Azar in KATU News With Municipal Broadband, Cities Area Taking Back the Internet – And Making It Faster and Cheaper. Can Portland Do the Same? Erik Henriksen in the Portland Mercury Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing Holds Meeting, Seeks Applicants Genevieve Reaume in KATU News Portland to Settle with Wheelchair Users for $113 Million in Sidewalk Fixes Gordon R. Friedman in The Oregonian 10 Pride Festivals Happening Around Oregon in 2018 Jamie Hale in The Oregonian