Kelly Kenoyer

In the midst of a development boom in Portland, Oregon’s construction workers are aging out of the business—and they aren’t being replaced. Following a decades-long national trend, Oregon’s high-school graduates are increasingly moving on to college rather than going into trade work. Charles Manigo is trying to change that. “Being a construction worker isn’t sexy,” […]

FOTOKITA / Getty Images Governor Jerry Brown of California just signed a law that will eliminate the state’s cash bail system, making it the first state in the country to abandon the long-standing system. And good riddance! Cash bail is antithetical to a fair justice system, as it disproportionately harms low-income defendants while allowing the […]

Morsa Images / Getty Images Portland’s Bureau of Development Services (BDS) is currently missing a quarter of its staff, and it could be impacting the city’s building inspection and planning process. BDS, which oversees land use review, permits for construction projects, and inspections, is budgeted to have nearly 400 staffers. “We have almost 100 vacancies, […]

Mercury Staff Many of the newest apartment buildings in Portland represent the height of luxury, with workout rooms, Amazon Echos, and other upscale delights. But their developers are worried: Thanks to a relatively new city program, they’re being forced to rent some of those pricey units to the less-privileged in Portland. As a result, some […]

digicomphoto / Getty Images Yesterday, we published an article about a study by a company called A Secure Life that showed that Oregon has the fewest sex offenders per capita in the entire country. Great news, right? But soon after the article was published, a reader brought it to our attention that other, more comprehensive […]

Sheridan Federal Correctional Institute ALEX ZIELINSKI Seven immigrant asylum seekers have been released from their months-long detention at a Sheridan federal prison, and more are expected to be let out later this week—if not today. Those seven are among the 100 or so men who have been held in the rural Oregon prison since late […]

Developers wince at inclusionary housing law, but advocates say it’s helping.

ASecureLife.com UPDATE: The company that produced this study got the data 100 percent wrong. Here’s our follow-up post. Original Post: A new study shows that Oregon has the fewest sex offenders per capita of any state, with only 195 sex offenders per one million residents. The company that put out the study, called A Secure […]

Maple Fire in Hamma Hamma area at Olympic National Forest, August 2018 US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region As you’re probably aware, Portland is still blanketed in an awful layer of hazy wildfire smoke, stuck over the city after drifting north from fires in Southern Oregon, Washington, and California. The entire west coast right now […]