Nathan Gilles Cabs outside Embassy Suites Yesterday morning, around 25 cabs circled the downtown Embassy Suites on SW Pine and 3rd. Holding up traffic and in general causing a mild discomfort for the hotel, the cabbies had signs in their windows that read: “End Hotel Corruption.” Their beef with Embassy Suites? According to cabby Red […]
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Occupy-Related F6 Protest Trials End, No Anarchists in Sight
Nathan Gilles Nefi Martinez-Bravo testifies. Yesterday, the Multnomah County courtroom of Judge Cheryl Albrecht saw yet another Occupy Portland-related trial. This time for the unpermitted February 6, 2012 anti-police brutality protests. The night of February 6, or F6, is one both protesters and cops won’t forget anytime soon. It was the night both kinda went […]
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Death Warmed Over
A Cheat Sheet to Our Coming Climate Catastrophe
A cheat sheet to Oregon’s climate changed future.
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Could Occupy Portland Still Get Jury Trials?
Denis Theriault Jamison Arrests A startling new development in the Occupy Portland court fight had defense lawyers scrambling on their smartphones and laptops this morning. The reason? A new court of appeals decision might mean occupiers could get their long-sought jury trials after all. The trial for the October 30, 2011, mass arrests at Jamison […]
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Occupy Portland Goes to Trial
Denis Theriault Eviction at Chapman Square After seven months of pretrial proceedings and fights over police records Occupy Portland is now going to trial en masse. While Occupy has already seen a scattering of individual cases go to trial, starting last week, the movement had its first mass arrests trials, beginning with proceedings for the […]
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How to… GET THINGS FOR FREE (OR REALLY CHEAP)
How to get things for free (or really, really cheap).
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Good Morning, News!
The Big Wet Easy. The Gulf Coast is recovering from Hurricane Isaac. Pinocchio Politics. These guys really do lie. Who knew? Pirate Arrested. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, co-founder of the popular torrent (copyright infringement) site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Vietnam. Warg was fleeing a one-year jail sentence for—you guessed it—copyright violations. A Mini […]
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Groups Continue to Fight Coal Exports
Commissioner Amanda Fritz talks with anti-coal protesters A crowd of about 70 environmentalists gathered outside the downtown Portland offices of the Army Corps of Engineers this afternoon to protest Oregon’s newest potential export, coal. If you’ve been following this story, you know there are currently six proposed coal terminals for Oregon and Washington. If approved, […]
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Run, Pussy Riot! Run! Two members of the-pain-in-Vladimir Putin’s-ass punk rock band Pussy Riot have reportedly fled Russia and Russian authorities. The bloodshed continues in Syria. The Syrian regime is now accused of killing 200 civilians in a town on the outskirts of Damascus. The British Aren’t Coming. The Brits has stopped threatening to invade […]
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The Police Bureau’s Occupy Informant Will Remain a Mystery
With court dates for all but a handful of Occupy Portland protesters finally set yesterday morning, much of the drama in the movement’s months-long court fight—at least in the pre-trial phase of proceedings—has finally been put to bed. But still up in the air? Whether the police will reveal if they were using informants or […]
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What To Do With an Injured Invasive Animal?
Morgaine Faye A story I reported for the paper this week, Cute Animal Death Watch, digs into a state policy that requires wildlife rehabilitators to euthanize invasive species—or nonnative animals that cause ecological harm. The policy calls for killing animals many Oregonians probably don’t know are invasive—including possums, and several species of squirrels and turtles. […]
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Cute Animal Death Watch!
Do We Have the Stomach to Euthanize Invasive Squirrels, Possums, and Turtles?
Animal advocates say the state is fighting a losing war against invasive species.