The city will argue Friday that the ordinance does not infringe on free speech by panhandlers or others, but civil rights advocates disagree.

Among them are a database of building inspection records and a more effective system of responding to complaints.

Eight months later, Portland still hasn’t heard whether some of the program practices it had used for decades are now improper.

The homes on land now occupied by the public works department would be sold for below-market prices so many working families could afford them.

More undocumented immigrants have received general assistance from the city since July 1 than in the entire previous year.

Steven Summers of Rockland, a Navy veteran with a wife and two young children, was engulfed in flames when he jumped from the second story of the burning apartment house.