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Movin on down

The Apartment Market is Swinging in Favor of Landlords. So what Can Portland Do to Protect Tenants’ Rights?
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Portland’s apartment market is tightening up. While vacancy rates hovered between 6 to 8 percent for the past few years—making it a tenants’ market, where landlords frequently offered incentives to pick up renters, and kept rents low—now the tables have turned. Home prices and interest rates have risen, leaving many Portlanders unable to afford a […]

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Naked Justice

Cyclist Fights Criminal Charges
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Six months after his arrest at the June 10 World Naked Bike Ride through downtown Portland, cyclist Reverend Phil Sano is facing up to two and a half years in prison if he’s found guilty on four charges. His trial begins on Wednesday, December 13. What did Sano do during a quirky bike event to […]

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Underground Movement

Hillsdale Neighbors Fight Utility Poles
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In mid-November, a PGE utility crew hit the Hillsdale neighborhood in SW Portland and committed a travesty, according to neighborhood activists. “On the new sidewalk along [SW] Bertha that our community actively worked to secure funding for, new holes were punched without so much as community discussion and recognition of the community commitment to undergrounding […]

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Suspension of Disbelief

Art Student Expelled—For Atheism?
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Bob Averill’s classmates at the Art Institute of Portland had finished up their work in a character development class on November 8, and were chatting to pass the time until class was over. The discussion moved toward spirituality. Averill, a Game Art Design student and a devoted atheist—he even runs a blog called Portland Atheist—sidled […]

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Mad House

NE Portland Home Draws Neighbors’ Complaints, Cops’ Investigation
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Since the Howard family moved into a two-story house on NE Emerson Court in July, the cops estimate up to 16 of their neighbors on the small cul-de-sac have tried to move out. “They’re holding the neighborhood hostage,” says Northeast Precinct Commander Bret Smith. Before sunrise on Wednesday morning, November 1, more than 30 cops […]

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Blue Tuesday

Democrats Succeed Nationally, While Progressives Carry the Ballot in Oregon
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The good news started rolling in shortly before 3 pm. Exit polls from 10 key states showed that Democrats were leading the Senate races in eight—even in places like Ohio and Missouri—while Republicans were only pulling through in Tennessee and Arizona. The trend held all night. Thanks to the Republicans’ bungling of the Iraq War, […]

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Voting Help

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So your ballot arrived in the mail—now what? Do you vote for or against substituting the “federal tax subsitution” measure? How about those two campaign finance reforms? And let’s not forget the Multnomah County commissioner race between Jeff Cogan and and Lew Frederick—who’d do the best job? So many choices! Take a deep breath, and […]

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You’ve Got Mail

Wading Through the Election Campaign Bullshit
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It happens every election cycle: Your mailbox gets stuffed to the gills with all manner of colorful, oddly sized postcards, all attempting to convince you to vote in a specific way. Add to that campaigns’ increasing use of the internet—email, websites, and, oddly, YouTube videos—and the tide of information becomes overwhelming. Face it, you simply […]

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Apartment Complex

Tenant Takes on Landlord Over Maintenance Issues
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Renae Armstrong moved into her SE Portland apartment almost two years ago, in January 2005. She immediately noted a long list of minor repairs in the circa-1964 unit that needed attention, like a small hole in the bathroom wall where a towel rack was moved, a broken tub drain stopper, missing molding in the kitchen, […]

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