Blair Stenvick

BLAIR STENVICK A bill that could eventually allow Oregon to import and export cannabis across state lines—and give the state’s pot industry a head start when national cannabis laws change in the future—passed a vote in the Oregon Senate Wednesday. It will now move on to the House floor. Currently, Oregon’s legal weed market is […]

Candidates for Portland Public Schools’ board participated in a forum hosted by the City Club of Portland last month. CITY CLUB OF PORTLAND There’s been no shortage of scrutiny directed toward Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) administration and board of directors in recent months. Voters will have the chance to shake up the school board in […]

Students packed into Monday’s PSU Board of Trustees meeting, where an 11 percent tuition increase passed 6-3. COURTESY PSU STUDENT UNION Portland State University’s (PSU) Board of Trustees voted 6-3 on Monday afternoon to raise annual student tuition and fees from $9,105 to $10,050—an 11 percent hike. Board members voting in favor of the increase […]

BRI BREY The city of Portland’s recent decision to pass off its electric scooter complaint process to private companies during the second pilot period is a bad idea, according to a leading disability rights organization. As Willamette Week reported last week, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) changed the protocol for Portlanders filing complaints about […]

BLAIR STENVICK Oregon’s teachers are mad as hell about a lack of state school funding. And at a massive rally held Wednesday at downtown Portland’s waterfront, they made it clear that they aren’t going to take it anymore. “I’m concerned,” said Valerie Crosby, a Spanish immersion teacher at West Sylvan Middle School, part of Portland […]

COURTESY NO LNG EXPORTS A long-planned, controversial Southern Oregon fracked gas pipeline project was dealt a major setback on Monday, spurring celebration from the many groups who oppose it. One group of Oregonians who are particularly relieved: The Native American community living on the land the pipeline’s slated to plow through. As OPB reported Monday, […]

GEO PIATT / GETTY IMAGES Teachers in Portland and across Oregon plan to hold an organized walkout this Wednesday, May 8, in an attempt to pressure Salem lawmakers to provide more state funding for K-12 education. It will be the first state-wide teacher walkout in Oregon’s history, according to John Larson, president of the Oregon […]

BLAIR STENVICK About two hundred people gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront area Wednesday afternoon to protest Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump Administration’s family border separation policy. The demonstration was heavily monitored by city and federal law enforcement, and attracted a handful of counter-demonstrators from the far-right Vancouver, Washington group Patriot Prayer. The […]

ALEX ZIELINSKI “I, as well as the city, will always support your right to free speech,” Mayor Ted Wheeler says in a video released Tuesday by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). “We just ask that you do it peacefully and legally.” That’s the overarching message of the video, which is a three-minute rotation of talking […]