Kelly Kenoyer

Rep. Diego Hernadez speaks on the steps of Portland City Hall. Kelly Kenoyer A week after protesters began their campout in front of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office building in Portland, Oregon lawmakers called on the federal government to eliminate ICE altogether. “[ICE] frames immigration issues as national security issues instead of […]

Thomas Northcut / Getty Images The group behind the growing protest outside of a Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are taking a field trip to the Willamette River this weekend. The idea came after Stuart Lindquist, the man who owns the ICE building (the government leases it from Lindquist Development Co.), admitted to striking […]

Mercury Staff Portland City Council is considering adding two new fees to Portland’s growing Airbnb market. One fee, a 2 percent charge per night on short-term rentals (STRs) like Airbnb, would fund Portland tourism campaigns. But it’s the other—a $4 per night charge on STRs—that could have greater impacts on both STR hosts and local […]

Several tents set up near the ICE building in South Portland Kelly Kenoyer A group of protesters have been camped out a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in south Portland since Sunday—and they’re not planning on moving until the Trump administration revokes its “zero tolerance” immigration policy that’s been separating thousands of immigrant […]

Patriot Prayer at the June 3 Rally Kelly Kenoyer I covered a Patriot Prayer rally and its subsequent counter protest a couple weeks ago, where I was shoved by a right-wing activist and later almost hit by a rock. It was a scary experience—the first violent protest I’ve covered, and I had a bit of […]

Doug Brown In the lead-up to Portland’s Pride weekend, the LGBTQ community has raised concerns about the possibility of hate groups inflicting violence against people joining in Pride celebrations. And for good reason. That’s because a group of conservative anti-LGBTQ protestors who brought violence to Portland’s 2017 Pride Parade is planning to attend. The Hell […]

A URM building in Napa, CA after a 6.0 earthquake California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Portland City Council has unanimously passed a resolution that will create policies for mandatory retrofits on unreinforced masonry buildings, or URMs—the city’s brick buildings most vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake. It’s the first step in a long […]