Steve Novick Was Kicked Out of Portland City Hall. Now He Offers His Boldest Ideas to Shake Up a Broken Council.
City of Portland | March 29, 2017
For years, Steve Novick was the darling of Portland progressives. His distinctive physical profile—he stands 4-foot-9 with a metal hook in place of the left hand he was born without—was paired with big policy ideas and a barbed wit. He nearly upset Jeff Merkley in a 2008 Democratic primary bid for the U.S. Senate, then breezed into Portland City Hall in 2012.