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Portland officials will continue to seek penalties against the owner of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building for violating a land use agreement.

On Friday morning, the city’s permitting department issued a letter upholding its September land use violation. That decision accused building owner Stuart Lindquist of violating a rule prohibiting ICE from holding detainees in its South Portland building overnight or for more than 12 hours.

As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies — and not regular people — must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence.

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 555 employed scorched earth tactics and big money to pass Measure 119. Now they want to kill it.

Leaders at the nonprofit spent public money on expensive office space and big bar tabs, the former director of finance says.

For much of its nearly two year existence, Miguel Alvarado-Lopez has been a fixture behind the scenes at Moonshot Tavern on NE 28th Ave. “He started off as a dishwasher, and then we realized we didn’t really need a dishwasher and he ended up quitting once he got his hours cut,” Josh Love, a partner and bartender at the tavern, said. “But we made a promise to him that we’d bring him back in any...