Tiny house. Big bucks. Reddit Portland went a little crazy today after PDXRacer posted this Craigslist ad for a short-term Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) in the Milwaukie area with the headline, “$1700 for 570sf closet .. you have to be effing kidding me.” According to the post, the unit is actually 546 square feet, which, […]
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Good Morning, News!: Jerky Vandals, Bigot Judges, and Ancient Humans
Say cheeeeeeeese, ya jerk. Good morning, Blogtown! Are you ready for some Thursday news? Remember those vandals who defaced a railing at Tumalo Falls last year? They were tracked down and fined thanks, in part, to their story going viral. Let’s not teach our kids to be jerks, mmkay? A second Oregon judge—Washington County Judge […]
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A Summer of Evictions
Portland Renters Are in a State of Emergency
Portland’s rental crisis has reached a state of emergency.
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The Common Good
A Faith-Based Group Has a Big Voice on Affordable Housing
A local civic leadership group is pushing the city to fund affordable housing development.
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Portland’s in the New York Times Again
The New York Times Luring New Yorkers to Portland with food. “Portland’s just so authentic it almost hurts,” is probably the most Portland quote from the video accompanying today’s “36 Hours in Portland, Ore.” write up in the New York Times. Reporter Freda Moon calls Portland a “bastion of good living, leisure and happy inebriation,” […]
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The Multnomah County Commission Approved Funding for Affordable Housing
Jason Sturgill The Mulnomah County Commission today gave the go ahead to a city program that should increase the number of affordable housing units developed in Portland by about 200 per year. The program, called the Multiple-Unit Limited Tax Exemption (MULTE), is an existing program that is meant to encourage developers to include affordable units […]
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Good Morning, News!: Dancing with the Stars, Not Singing with Lemmy, and Tricking Kim Davis
It’s Thursday and you’re almost to a long holiday weekend, Blogtown! Let’s have some news! Scandal! Apparently Portland First Lady Nancy Hales didn’t bake her own cake for the Oregon Historical Society contest. Oh, the humanity! Fellow participant and KOIN-TV anchorman Jeff Gianola summed the whole thing up pretty well when he said, “This is […]
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Good Morning, News!: Rain, Wind, and Runners in Portland
It’s here! The rain! Good morning, Raintown! Yesterday I thought maybe the weather forecasters were trolling us, but there’s a real storm going on out there! Let’s have some news: Along with this glorious rain comes a wind advisory, Portlanders. Batten the hatches! Friday evening during rush hour seems like a nice time for a […]
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Police in North Dakota are Getting Weaponized Drones
Big Brother is Tazer-ing you Gun lobbyists in North Dakota successfully pushed a bill through the legislature making it legal for cops to affix “non-lethal” weapons to drones. Yes, that’s right, according to this Daily Beast article, if you go to North Dakota, you can now be hit with everything from beanbag rounds, to pepper […]
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Good Morning, News!: School Starts, Rain is Coming, and St. Mary’s Reversal
Good morning, Blogtown! Isn’t that forecast exciting? Let’s have some news! Someone at St. Mary’s Academy hired a public relations person, apparently. The school announced it reversed its hate policy of not allowing LGBT teachers at the school. That whole fiasco could have been avoided with just a little foresight. A study by the fancy-sounding […]
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North Portland Rising
A Fight to Save a 115-Year-Old Home from Demolition Appears Doomed
One century-old Portland home vs. 54 much-needed apartments.
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This Guy Lit His Apartment on Fire Because He Smelled Smoke
Don’t do drugs, kids. Where there’s smoke, there’s often fire. But when 29-year-old Portland resident Michael Downey smelled smoke and didn’t see any fire, he decided to set his apartment ablaze. Downey first told police he most certainly did not set paper and metal clothes hangers (what?!) on fire last Saturday in the middle of […]