Abe Asher

Nabisco workers picket outside of Northeast Portland’s Nabisco factory. Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union Local 364 Workers at a Nabisco factory in Northeast Portland are in the second week of a strike that has spread across the country in what one local union member has described as a fight to “save […]

A mural by the artist Campo Graphic on the side of Courtesy Janitorial Services on NE Alberta and 17th depicts the businesses’ founder, Floyd Booker Sr. Jordan Brokaw Although third-generation Black Portlander Kamelah Adams grew up off N Williams Ave., in the historic Albina Neighborhood, she spent much of her childhood visiting relatives in Northeast […]

Abe Asher The story of Bridges Cafe, a beloved Eliot neighborhood brunch spot forced to close after more than two decades in business, is not unique. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered Portland in mid-March, more than 80 restaurants, cafes, and bars across the city have closed permanently, while many others have closed temporarily or […]

Getty Images / paula sierra Portland, like communities across the country, is bracing for the outcome of November’s presidential election. But for two of the city’s smallest religious communities, the race carries particular weight. The Muslim American community was one of the first religious communities targeted by Trump during his 2016 campaign for president and […]

A spent tear gas canister on the street in downtown Portland. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland US Sen. Ron Wyden wants to know exactly what chemical weapons federal officers have been using on Portland protesters, when they were manufactured, and what their effects are on human health. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr and Acting […]