Multnomah County

First responders are urging residents to prepare emergency home kits ahead of the incoming fall storms.

In Oregon, municipal operations in Multnomah County faced picket lines Monday morning as city employees walked off the job.

Labor reporting from Oregon public broadcasting firms, more than 800 members of the City of Portland Professional Workers Union went on strike.

The union, which represents city data and financial analysts, launched the strike after weekend mediation sessions failed to resolve a longstanding dispute over cost of living increases.

The numbers are not going to change.

Multnomah County alone has 800,000 plus people.

So Multnomah County alone has twice as many people as all of Eastern Oregon.

So if Multnomah County decides they want to have a, you know, Democratic governor, they can make that decision.

And that's exactly what you saw this election happen.

It's exactly what you saw in 2022.

Right now, if you go to the Oregon Secretary of State page, there's 180,000 vote difference between Tina Kotek and Christine Drazen.

If you click on Multnomah County, there's a 215,000 vote difference right there.

Four o'clock right now, and here are just some of the stories we're working on for you today.

Multnomah County's DA works to secure an indictment for one man accused in a recent alleged biased crime and a prison sentence for another.

City-owned bureaus will be shorthanded as 800 union members walked off the job this morning.

The Oregon State Beavers will be on the national stage this weekend.

After forensic testing, officials say this was a case of murder-suicide where 37-year-old Huang Puong Le killed her three children and herself not far from Cornelius Elementary School.

Detectives say they suspected this was a murder-suicide early in the case but waited for forensic to rule out homicide.

Multnomah County prosecutors, meantime, are going to take a case, they say, to the grand jury following an allegedly racially motivated armed confrontation back on Halloween.

As KXL's Heather Roberts reports, it comes after the recent bias crime conviction of another Portland man who threatened workers he believed were undocumented.

We usually ask an opening question so our audience can get to know our guests a little bit better.

And today it's based on a bit of unhinged news coming out of Multnomah County.

We are entering the rainy season, as we all know, and apparently this is the time that rats can find their way through the sewers and up your toilet.

So the county put out a post about this.

And I have, you know, like how active do I have to be about it? Okay, rat in the toilet.

I think everybody is going to be able to be made whole at the end of this.

Rule number one on the Multnomah County thing was don't panic.

And

biased crime cases are moving forward now in Portland.

Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez says Trevor Cash... was recently convicted by a jury for threatening a group of roofers back in May of last year.

He's going to be sentenced on Friday.

Unfortunately, Vasquez says this type of case isn't uncommon.

And just like Rupert's comic strips in college tackled issues happening in the community, his comics in Portland did the same.

With Cathartic Comics, Beebe and Diva called out people like Gordon Shadburn, a former Multnomah County commissioner who made homophobic comments.

Rupert also critiqued communities he was a part of.

I was able to deal with, within the strip, this whole idea of homophobia in the black community or communities of color, and racism in the queer community, sexism in the queer community.

With the takeaway really at home here is the first thing we want to talk about.

After everything we saw on Tuesday night, what do you think was the clearest message that voters sent about the direction that they want Portland and Multnomah County to take a blare? I'm going to start this with you.

Tim, I think the clearest takeaways in Multnomah County is that voters appear to be responding to candidates with firsthand experience of some of the issues that Multnomah County leadership is tasked with fixing, really.

In both the county chair race and the commissioner district two race, at this point of when we're taping the show, we're seeing candidates leading in both races that have firsthand experience with being a social worker, having been homeless, having lived paycheck to paycheck.

We're also seeing something similar in Portland City Council races, although those results are a little bit more complicated.

And I'm eager to see if the two years of experience help all of those incumbents to come together with the other six.

Let's hope so.

Multnomah County.