Doug Brown

Clara Joyce The Portland resident’s cell phone buzzed at 9:07 on a Wednesday morning last month. A text message. The incoming number wasn’t saved in the man’s contacts, but it was local and the sender definitely knew who he was. “Hello,” the message read, addressing the man by his first name. “This is Officer Smith. […]

Big Tree Images via the Oregon State Police The 15-year-old Vancouver boy accused of chucking fireworks in the Columbia River Gorge and starting the the massive Eagle Creek Fire last month has been charged in Hood River County. The fire, which started on September 2, has devastated nearly 50,000 acres in the region so far, […]

Good morning, Portland. Your links are here. Kinoko Evans First up is Dirk VanderHart’s news piece—also published in print yesterday (pick up a copy)—on the inevitable earthquake that will destroy many buildings in the city. ICE is very hard for journalists go get ahold of, Thacher Schmid reports. As several of its members are behind […]

Stuart Realty Group As members and associates of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club’s Portland chapter sit behind bars, awaiting trial on accusations they kidnapped, tortured and murdered a former member, its longtime Northeast Portland headquarters is up for sale. “Same owner for the last 28 years!” the real estate listing states, offering rare photographs inside […]

Cell phones: bad. Video cameras: good. Doug Brown In a PSA video released this week by the Beaverton Police Department on the state’s new driving-with-a-cell-phone law, a Beaverton cop behind the wheel of a squad car takes his eyes off the road to look directly into a camera at his right to explain, without irony, […]

Portland Thorns The New York Times published a great story about the Portland Thorns that I somehow missed when it was posted on Friday—maybe you did, too? If that’s the case, read it now. The day after the Times story was published the Thorns, of course, won the National Women’s Soccer League title. Here’s a […]

Russell Courtier and his European Kindred tattoo Doug Brown A defense attorney for Russell Courtier, a documented member of a white supremacist gang who admitted to mowing down a fleeing Black teenager last year, doesn’t want a jury to know his client is a member of a white supremacist gang who admitted to mowing down […]

Good morning, Portland. Come get your links. Dirk VanderHert writes about Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, the renter relocation law she fought four, and landlords increasing rents just below the 10 percent threshold: “I want to let you guys know that I also received a 9.7 percent rent increase this year,” Eudaly said. “My rent has gone […]

Portland police put hoods and headphones on protesters while separating them, with small hand tools, from the device connecting them Doug Brown The Portland Police Bureau put hoods over the faces and headphones on the ears of a group of activists linked together before they arrested them. The activists had been blocking the gate to […]

Portland police put hoods and headphones on Arrested Protesters Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Let’s hit these links. Protesters blocked the gate to the ICE building yesterday afternoon in SW Portland, in an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to the cruelty of deportations. Five protesters were linked together with duct tape-covered tube. Police […]