Let’s start Thursday with some news! No update yet this morning on the bicyclist who died yesterday in a SE Portland collision with a tow truck. The male rider has not been identified. Housing. Portland needs housing of all types, but especially the affordable kind. Here’s a rundown of the local agencies that are finally […]
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Pricing Out Portland’s Artists
Can Portland’s Creative Community Survive Development, Price Surge?
Artists love Portland, but is Portland’s development and rising rents forcing them out?
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Getting Nowhere Fast
Portland’s Wheelchair Users Still Waiting for Equal Access
Portland’s for-hire transportation industry sucked before Uber arrived.
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Congrats Class of 2015! You Probably Can’t Afford to Live Here
Image courtesy of Trulia Welcome to adulthood, Class of 2015! Thinking of finally moving out of mom and dad’s basement? Sick of roommates? Want a sweet pad of your very own? Then don’t move to Portland. Portland is officially the number one least affordable rental market for recent college grads in the whole country, according […]
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Oregon: Now With Two Times As Much Drought!
Image courtesy of the Oregon Water Resources Department and we’re all going to burn up this summer Gov. Kate Brown today added eight counties to the growing list that are under a drought emergency declaration, including the first locations west of the Cascades. The additional eight—Deschutes, Grant, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Morrow, Umatilla, and Wasco—join Baker […]
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Good Morning, News!: Kangaroos, Bird Flu, and Ogling the Heisman
Photo courtesy of the Facebooks It’s Friday! Have you hugged a kangaroo today? No? Well, let’s have some news: The Canadian company trying to put a gargantuan propane terminal at the Port of Portland was in secret negotiations with port officials, even as Portlanders railed against the project, to try and weasel out of paying […]
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Bad News for Author of Proposed Ballot Initiative
Uh-oh The City Attorney’s interpretation of a proposed initiative to revamp Portland’s commission-style government and create voting districts blown a few giant holes in the plan. In the last paragraph of the ballot title (shown in the screenshot above), the attorney concludes that the language in the proposed initiative—submitted by East Portland resident Collene Swenson—would […]
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Good Morning, News!: Weed Regulation, Toxic Weed Spray, and Weed Smuggling. Weed!
Photo courtesy N. Korea expert Photoshopper It’s Thursday. Let’s launch a fake rocket! Nope. Let’s have some news instead. Oregon lawmakers are scrambling to put as many rules and regulations on the weed industry as they can before the July 1 legalization date, and they’re considering adding a two-year residency requirement for people wanting to […]
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Who Represents You?
Portlanders Are Trying—Again—to Get Representation
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Portlanders are trying—again—to get representation on city council.
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Update: Burglary Suspect Shot By Police Expected to Survive
Photo courtesy of Portland Police Bureau A knife-weilding man shot on Sunday by police after he allegedly broke into a Southeast Portland home is alive and in critical condition in a Portland hospital. The Portland Police Bureau identified the suspect as 47-year-old Michael Shawn Harrison. Harrison sustained “several gunshot wounds as well as several serious […]
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Man Stabs Self, Gets Shot by Cops (Last Update)
Update, 7:40pm: Sgt. Greg Stewart from the Portland Police Department says they’re not releasing any more information until tomorrow. The knife-weilder is alive, as far as Stewart knows. No one else has been reported injured. Update, 6:55pm: A third email says police used a “less-lethal shotgun (a weapon which shoots beanbags and is used to […]
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Good Morning, News!: A Thin List, the Orange Line, and #droughtshaming
Get excited, Oregon taxpayers! You get a kicker this year. Wait, no. You get a teeny credit against your taxes next year. *sad trombone* A bunch of important people yesterday took the first Orange Line line the whole way along the 7.3-mile route. There was much cheering and back-patting. Commissioner Steve Novick’s “thin list of […]