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The Oregon Republican Party wants to remind you that they’re dumb assholes. Yesterday, Portland City Council reaffirmed that Portland will be a “sanctuary city” against the federal government’s war on undocumented immigrants, officially declaring “the city’s unwillingness to help the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency find and deport immigrants” (article in the O). The […]

Good morning, Portland. It’s game day, and if you see someone wearing a Michigan basketball jersey around town today, that may be me. Sorry. Jahn Teetsov Out in print as of yesterday (you should pick up a copy) is this feature by Santi Elijah Holley on his trip to the Oregon Freedom Rally, a conservative […]

Venus Hayes talks to reporters Doug Brown A grand jury declined yesterday to indict Portland Police Officer Andrew Hearst, who shot and killed 17-year-old Quanice Hayes last month. The teen’s mother gathered with supporters and the media outside the Portland Building this morning to criticize the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) and the Multnomah County District […]

Portland police’s crowd control weapons are under fire from civil rights groups.

Don Perkins The two Portland Police officers who shot a 56-year-old man in an apparent mental health crisis were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury yesterday, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) announced this afternoon. It was an attempted “suicide by cop,” the PPB said. Don Perkins—shot on Feb. 9, the same day […]

Good morning, Portland. Click these links. First up, before we get into the news, make sure to check out our happy hour guide for more than 75 spots around town. Pick up a print copy, too. Jahn Teetsov Some state lawmakers think revoking driver, professional, and recreational licenses from people who are busted paying for […]

Jahn Teetsov Shame is a powerful tool—one that Oregon lawmakers are trying to leverage in their ongoing fight against sex traffickers and those who pay for sex. The theory, according to two Oregon legislators, is simple: The more negative consequences for a crime, the less that crime will happen. So State Sen. Kathleeen Taylor and […]

State lawmakers are pushing steeper punishment for people who pay for sex.

Good morning, Portland. Yes, it’s cold and raining again. Natalie Behring Yesterday, our print issue (pick up a copy!) and website only featured bylines from women and nonbinary writers, in solidarity with the A Day Without a Woman strike. Here’s why we did it. Make sure you read our feature by Elinor Jones on the […]

Mittleman Jewish Community Center facebook.com/mjccpdx It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before the wave of bomb threats towards Jewish community centers and schools around the country during the Donald Trump era would make its way to Portland. It happened here last night. At 8:28 p.m. on Monday, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers […]

Juan Rogel addresses the “ICE out of Oregon” rally Doug Brown About 100 people gathered outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Southwest Portland this afternoon, decrying the particularly cruel detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States under the Trump administration. Here are some sights and sounds from the […]

Fatmah Worfeley Doug Brown Much of the focus on Saturday in Lake Oswego was the interaction between the “March 4 Trump” crowd showing their love for President Donald Trump and the couple hundred counter-protesters unhappy with our racist, tyrannical, barely literate, popular-vote-losing leader and his supporters. A short distance away was the “Stand For Love […]