The main problem with LV's Sports Bar is that it is a black owned establishment in the heart of the up-and-coming gentrifabulous Boise neighborhood. The cops love to target the patrons of LV's and pretend as if it is the center of the crime universe. You mean some people who have gone to a bar have also possessed drugs? Wow! I'm shocked. A fight? 2 and a 1/2 years ago? Good reason to try and shut it down now.
Besides Mr. Van, aside from being his role on the state champion Grant High basketball team back in '86, has gone on to be very involved in the community donating time and money to help folks out. I realize this doesn't mean much to uptight white people who bike past LV's on N. Vancouver and grit their teeth and wish these pesky poor black people would just go away so something "useful",like yet another gathering spot for sanctimonious wonderbread can go into that location instead. But that's just the way it is.

Yet they were able to destroy the old La Luna/Pine Street Theater like it was nothing... I really don't think we need to be giving the OLCC more power to shut down businesses in our state.

I think the system stinks. The wait for beginning to end is ridiculous. A bar with a horrendous history should not be given months or years to keep up the problems. What a bunch of crud.

did you even read the whole article stukasoverpdx? it hardly singles out LV's. read the fucking "outcome" section for LV's.

what are the "main problems" with the other bars? it would be one thing if the list was only black owned bars, but it's not. it's a list of bars where a lot of dumb motherfuckers get in fights and sell drugs. don't turn the article into something it's not.

Rainperimeter:
You must not have read my comment very carefully before gracing us with your rather underwhelming defense of the above article. But in case I was unclear:
Why, if the "fucking" (I like the indignation you convey with your use of the word)outcome section lets us know how everything is just fine, are incidents that are over two years old being reported as news?
One thing the report cited and the article doesn't bother to address by speaking with anyone from LV's staff or patron perspective is why do cops still hassle people coming and going from the place? Let's sit outside one evening and count the number of pretext stops that happen.
The beef I have with the article, aside from relying on old news to make LV's look bad and then not bother to get their side, is that overall the piece ignores the historical context of Portland in that there have existed a far larger number of "problem" bars here. So much so, that the volume of problems was distributed amongst a greater number of bars so no one bar necessarily stood out as the biggest problem. Going down to the corner tavern often meant rubbing elbows with various and sundry ruffians and drug dealers (most of whom are people too) and witnessing the occasional fight, well, ok, brawl. The much more recently documented and serious issues the Cab downtown has faced, or is facing, relative to what was listed in the article that makes LV's such a "problem" bar would seem to be far more concerning.
But, since the trend has been to make sure all bars within the hip and trendy close-in core of Portland are watered down in atmosphere enough to make sure that assholes with limited reading comprehension such as yourself can sit around yet another fern bar and safely pat each other on the back about your correct politics over an organic microbrew I guess that means you win. Congratulations.