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Pig Iron To Wrought Iron: Lake Oswego's Transformation From Iron Smelting To The Privatization Of Oswego Lake, Mathew K. Ragsdale Apr 2020

Pig Iron To Wrought Iron: Lake Oswego's Transformation From Iron Smelting To The Privatization Of Oswego Lake, Mathew K. Ragsdale

Young Historians Conference

The paper focuses on the interaction between Oregon's public trust doctrine, city ordinances, and private interests surrounding access to Oswego Lake. Areas of study include the early development of Lake Oswego with its prominence in the Oregon iron industry, and its transition from industrial town to weekend retreat to affluent suburb between the late 1800s and mid 1900s. The Lake Oswego Corporation has claimed power over all aspects of the lake, a notion disputed by Oregon's strong public trust doctrine. The city, whose duty is to all residents, has used the lake as a public asset while restricting access to …


Community Policing In Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) May 2003

Community Policing In Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


Risk-Based Monitoring: A Model And Application To Fda’S Imported Food Monitoring Program, Sheila A. Martin, Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Richard Williams Oct 1999

Risk-Based Monitoring: A Model And Application To Fda’S Imported Food Monitoring Program, Sheila A. Martin, Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Richard Williams

Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Publications

Regulatory agencies intervene in risky situations by outlawing practices that impose risks on society or by proscribing practices that reduce risk. Because public resources for enforcing regulation are limited, public policy has recently emphasized maximizing the benefit from enforcement by considering the risk reduction achievable from each intervention. This emphasis requires a shift of resources to monitoring situations in which regulatory violations are most likely, their welfare effects are most serious, and their detection is probable and relatively inexpensive. This article is a risk-based monitoring model applied to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) import monitoring program. Although some components …


Collected Working Papers, Phase 2, Portland Police Bureau/National Institute Of Justice Community Policing Assessment Project, Brian Stipak, Annette I. Jolin, Maria Clavadetscher, Susan Immer, James Marshall Sep 1993

Collected Working Papers, Phase 2, Portland Police Bureau/National Institute Of Justice Community Policing Assessment Project, Brian Stipak, Annette I. Jolin, Maria Clavadetscher, Susan Immer, James Marshall

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Portland State University is one of three agencies, along with the Portland Police Bureau and the University of Oregon, working on a project funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice. The purpose of the grant is to develop and implement methods of measuring the performance of community policing. As the recipient of the grant, the Police Bureau has contracted with Portland State University, and also with the University of Oregon, to do some of the work for the grant. This PSU report of collected working papers was produced wider the contract between …


Law Enforcement Services In Clackamas County: Description And Financial Analysis, Judy Seppanen Davis, Peter B. Morris, Mark Bechtel, Jan Monroe, Charles Tracy, Sheldon Edner Dec 1988

Law Enforcement Services In Clackamas County: Description And Financial Analysis, Judy Seppanen Davis, Peter B. Morris, Mark Bechtel, Jan Monroe, Charles Tracy, Sheldon Edner

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This report was prepared for the Clackamas County Blue Ribbon Committee on Law Enforcement by the Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University. The report provides a description of the current system of law enforcement service provision in the County by city and County service providers. It also analyzes the current financing process of law enforcement with regard to the equity of service received in relation co amounts paid by city and County residents. The analysis focuses only on law enforcement and does not address rhe other services provided by the County or other jurisdictions. Further, the findings presented here …


A Review Of Property Taxation In Oregon And Report On State Measure No. 5 "Continues Tax Reduction Program", City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Apr 1980

A Review Of Property Taxation In Oregon And Report On State Measure No. 5 "Continues Tax Reduction Program", City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.