Pull Up a Chair
On November 3, Multnomah County picks a new chair, and for the first time we’re doing it with ranked choice voting. The chair runs a roughly $4 billion government that handles the “people stuff”: homeless services, mental health and addiction care, jails, the health department, libraries, even the animal shelter. Whoever wins inherits a squeezed budget, a city-county homeless services agreement up for renegotiation, and a public that’s short on patience.
This week I sat down with one of the three candidates, Commissioner Shannon Singleton. Shannon is a trained social worker who has spent her…
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