Good morning, Portland. Enjoy these links. Dominic Devenuta ICYMI, our tale of Gary Holstrom, a Forest Grove antiques and artifacts store owner who became the target of an animal part smuggling investigation before becoming an informant to bust his Malaysian suppliers: The FWS didn’t ever mention that Holstrom, in his early 70s, was the original […]
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A Terminal Cancer Patient Just Sued Bullseye Glass
Bullseye Glass Co., 3722 SE 21st Ave Doug Brown A 63-year-old grandmother who works at the Fred Meyer office across the street from Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland just filed a lawsuit accusing the known air-polluter of causing her terminal lung cancer. Valarie Silva and her husband Richard filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal […]
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Monkey Business
How a Forest Grove Man Indicted for Selling Endangered Animal Parts Helped Bust His Malaysian Suppliers
How a Forest Grove man indicted for selling endangered animal parts helped bust his Malaysian suppliers.
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“Lives Matter”
Voices and Pictures from Portland’s #PulsePride Vigil
Voices and pictures from Portland’s #PulsePride vigil.
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PHOTOS: The Portland LGTBQ Vigil For the Victims of the Orlando Shooting
Doug Brown Hundreds of people in the Portland LGBTQ community and their allies gathered outside of Embers in the Pearl District on Sunday evening to mourn for and honor the 50 people killed over the weekend at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the scene of the largest mass shooting in American history. We’ll have more […]
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PHOTOS: The Final Bowie vs. Prince Ride
Doug Brown In case you were one of the few dozen Portlanders who couldn’t make it out Saturday night to the final Bowie vs. Prince bike ride, check out the pictures below. The Prince crew, where I went, met last night at 7 p.m. at Sewellcrewst Park in Southeast Portland, while the Bowie crew met […]
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Check Out This Great Video From The 1985 Portland Rose Festival
Feeling nostalgic? A Vimeo user just uploaded this fantastic video of the Portland Rose Festival from 31 years ago, filmed by Gary Lacher (who, we believe, is the author of Theatres of Portland and works at moviepreservation.com), sped up with some Dmitri Shostakovich music playing over it. It’s quite enjoyable, and timely!
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Feds Indict Man Accused of Illegally Selling Primate Skulls and Other Animal Parts Smuggled from Asia
Gary Holstrom LinkedIn A Portland-area man, Gary Holstrom, was indicted in federal court this week, accused of selling at least eight skulls, including two from endangered orangutans, and other animal parts all smuggled from Asia. The details in the indictment are scant: It just lists Holstrom’s name, the animal parts that he’s accused of selling, […]
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Good Morning, News: A New EPA Proposal, Portland’s Claymation King, and a Death at Yellowstone
Good morning, Portland. Click these links, please. Branche Coverdale There’s finally an EPA proposal to clean up the Willamette River’s toxic bead. But… “It also leaves roughly 85 percent of the nearly 2,200-acre, 10 mile site untouched. The superfund stretches, roughly, from the Fremont Bridge to the Columbia River.” ICYMI, “Portland might have found a […]
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The Cops Just Caved to a Citizen Oversight Group
Chief Larry O’Dea’s Replacement Changed Her Mind and Overruled Him, Avoiding a Rare City Council Showdown
Chief O’Dea’s replacement changed her mind and overruled him, avoiding a showdown.
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Mexican Shipment of Endangered Fish Bladders, Worth Up To $10,000 Each, Seized Coming Into Portland
SEIZED: 103 fish bladders from Mexico There’s more than drugs coming out of El Chapo and the Sinaloa Cartel’s home state: There’s an illegal fish bladder trade going on, too. A package with 103 dried fish bladders, including some from endangered totoaba that could fetch $10,000 a pop, was seized by the feds last month […]
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Good Morning, News: Muhammad Ali Edition
Welcome to a particularly somber Good Morning, News. Muhammad Ali—one of the greatest and most important Americans of all time—passed away last night. Every parent in this country should teach their children about Ali’s life. There’s some other news you should catch up: An oil train derailed and caught on Fire in Mosier, Oregon. The […]