PSU Magazine Winter 1993

e politics of Metro f politics is about anyth ing, it is about turf, according to Rena Cusma, executive officer of Metro, the regional governmen t overseeing Portland's mu lti-county metropo litan And one doesn't have to look far– in the newspaper or in the h istory books-to see that turf battles can get awfu lly nasty. In a pre-election look at the ba llot measure that gave Metro a new charte r, The Oregonian wrote that ome local politicians Metro is viewed as a threat by some local governments, but two PSU profs find this regional approach to government largely a success. By John R. Kirkland