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ALEXANDER SPATARI / GETTY IMAGES Portland State University’s (PSU) Population Research Center released early results for its annual Oregon population report Monday morning, and key findings include the state’s lowest birth rate in decades, as well as continued population growth from out-of-state transplants. Oregon’s population grew by over 50,000 people last year, with 88 percent […]

WILLIAM THOMAS CAIN / GETTY IMAGES On Friday morning, Media Matters For America published a post about the latest conservative smut to fill the airwaves of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, a television broadcast company that owns local TV news affiliates across the country, including Portland’s own KATU. The post’s author, Pam Vogel, notes that Sinclair stations […]

Breanna Caruso was among the OHSU graduate students at Thursday’s rally, which was meant to put pressure on OHSU to drop its formal objection to the students unionizing. BLAIR STENVICK Breanna Caruso spends her days searching for a cure for cancer. As a second-year Ph.D student at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Caruso researches […]

SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES Activists from Portland’s transgender community plan to gather in front of Portland City Hall Friday to respond to President Trump’s recently leaked, deeply anti-trans memo, and to demand equitable treatment for trans people in Portland. Won’t Be Erased PDX, a new trans activist group, is organizing the rally to coincide […]

TRIMET Not paying for a TriMet ticket isn’t a crime—but TriMet officers can still ask to see your ticket. That’s the key takeaway from an amendment the TriMet Board passed today, clarifying that failing to pay transit fare is not a criminal offense, but that it is still constitutional for transit officers to request proof […]

ALEX DESPAIN A plan to improve transit options and decrease the number of cars in central Portland just received a last-minute addition—one that would include investing in more parking options in the city center. Central City in Motion (CCIM) is an 18-project plan from the Portland Bureau of Transportation that’s been a year in the […]

Joey Gibson speaking at a pro-Trump rally he organized in 2017. DOUG BROWN If you need another reason not to be a violent, far-right extremist, here’s one: It apparently doesn’t pay well. Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson is using his fear-mongering group’s Facebook page to fundraise for a new car. On Wednesday, a link appeared […]

Senator Ron Wyden speaks at an anti-Trump protest at the Portland waterfront Thursday evening. BLAIR STENVICK Hundreds of people gathered at the downtown Portland waterfront tonight to protest Donald Trump’s firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his hiring of acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker, and the possibility that Special Investigator Robert Mueller might soon […]

KATIE TURNER In the final days of her campaign for Portland city commissioner, Loretta Smith received two donations worth $20,000 each. One was from the Keep Portland Safe, the police union’s political action committee (PAC). The other was from the Equitable Housing PAC, a landlord lobbying group. Smith lost to her opponent, Jo Ann Hardesty, […]

Jo Ann Hardesty celebrates her win over Loretta Smith to be Portland’s first Black women city commissioner. MEG NANNA We came, we saw candidates win and lose, and we ate some free snacks. You can read our intrepid reporting from last night’s election parties here—but we wanted to share some of our favorite photos from […]