Len Reed Mayor Shane BemisMayor Denny DoyleMayor Charlie Hales

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Len Reed Associate Editor, The

OregonianOpinion pages

BA, Trinity College John S. Knight Fellow, Stanford

University CASE Fellow, Yale University

School of Forestry

Len Reed Len has wrote editorials on several subjects,

such as

Portland city government and public safetyMetroMunicipal and county governmentsCity and state environmental policy and politicsEnergy developmentTransportation planning

Len ReedQ: First job you ever had?

A: Staff reporter and photographer, The Plainville (Connecticut)

Q: What are you currently reading?

A: “Infinite Jest”By David Foster Wallace

Len Reed

Words to live by?

“Be not a learned man, but a learning man.”

The Oregon poet Efraín M. Díaz-Horna

Mayor Shane Bemis Current Position?

Mayor, City of Gresham

Education? B.A. in Communications

from Marylhurst University

Mayor Shane Bemis

First Job?Dishwasher at Sheri’s

What Book Are You Currently Reading?“Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Los

Vegas”○ By Oscar Goodman

Mayor Shane Bemis

Q: Soundtrack to your life?

A: George Strait

Words to live by?

“Anybody can be normal”

Mayor Denny Doyle Current Position?

Mayor, City of Beaverton

Education? B.A. in Political Science

Illinois State University ○ Minor in Physical

Education

Mayor Denny Doyle

First Job?Cashier at a Des Plaines Parks District Swimming

Pool (Illinois)

What Book Are You Currently Reading?"Existence" by David Brin

Mayor Denny Doyle

Q: Soundtrack to your life?

A: Bruce Springsteen

Words to live by?

“While visiting other cultures, and countries, I am shrinking the world, one person at a time,

as we get to know each other.”

Mayor Charlie Hales Current Position?

Mayor, City of Portland

Education? B.A. Political Theory University of Virginia

Mayor Charlie Hales

Background?

Portland City Commissioner from 1993 to 2002

Joined HDR Engineering as senior vice president, working on new light rail and streetcar lines.

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