Welcome back, glorious sun! The voters giveth, and the Legislature taketh away. Lawmakers in Salem got one step closer last night to limiting the number of medical marijuana plants each person would be allowed to grow once it becomes legal in July, theoretically making it more difficult for people to grow bushels of it, stockpile […]
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The Check Is in the Mail
Can PDC Send USPS Packing This Time Around?
Is PDC going to lose $500,000 in taxpayer money—again?
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Propane Pipeline Vote Delayed, Hearing Scheduled
Portland will find out in June whether or not the port will get a new tenant: 33 million gallons of propane. City Council is tentatively scheduled to vote June 17 on a proposed zoning change that would allow Canada-based Pembina Pipeline Corporation to build a $500 million propane storage and export facility at Terminal 6 […]
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Fossil Fuel Charlie for Mayor 2016
Spotted near Portland State University Portland Mayor Charlie Hales isn’t getting much slack from fossil fuel opponents these days. Between the (I’m just going to say it) unflattering likeness in the poster above—spotted near Portland State University—and last week’s entertaining and disruptive Earth Day demonstration during council’s regular hearing, you could say opponents of a […]
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Why the $15 Now Minimum Wage Movement is Catching Fire
Illustration: Ryan Alexander-Tanner KASIL KAPRIEL is a 52-year-old single mother and Portland resident who was born in Micronesia. She works in customer service at the airport and earns $9.25 an hour—Oregon’s minimum wage. Kapriel can’t afford to pay her $750 monthly rent at one time, so she’s got a deal with her landlord to pay […]
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Good Morning, News!: Mangoes, Pickles, and Sweet Cakes
Good morning! Sorry, Portland: the Blazers didn’t win last night. A well-aimed mango has earned a homeless Venezuelan woman the gift of a new apartment from President Nicolás Maduro. The woman, Marleny Olivio, threw a mango with her phone number and a message at Maduro as he drove by in a bus. “I’ve approved an […]
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Pigs or People: Which is for Dinner?
What do you “purpose,” readers? Pigs will eat anything. Pigs will eat people. Case in point: Yesterday, a Medford-area woman was convicted of murdering two men and feeding their corpses to her pigs. Gross, right? Well, yeah, except what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, more correctly, what’s good for the […]
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Good Morning, News!: A Murdered Computer, Boobs in Venice, and a Tumor with Teeth
The rain’s back, Portlanders. A Colorado Springs man was cited by police for blowing eight rage-filled holes in his computer. Lucas Hinch, 37, reportedly told authorities, “It was glorious … Angels sung on high.” I get it, man. When I go to a Starbuck’s, I always think about how the one thing they’re missing (besides […]
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City Council Giant Cardboard Heads Protest Propane for Earth Day
Disembodied heads of Portland commissioners protesting climate change at City Hall. (Photo courtesy of Nick Caleb) If today’s out-of-order protest was any indication of the coming fight, Portland’s propane proponents are going to have a tough time over the next few months trying to get a fossil fuel storage and export facility built at the […]
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$15 and Rising
The Minimum Wage Movement Is Catching Fire
The $15 an hour wage movement catches fire in Portland. Why now?
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Watching the Clock
Heidi Julavits’ Diary: Just as Dull as Most People’s!
Heidi Julavits’ diary: just as dull as most people’s!
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Brunch Box Food Cart Closing
Brunch Box’s location at SW 5th and Stark to close in 10 days. The Brunch Box food cart is getting the boot. Co-owner Derek Coughlin says they’re getting evicted in 10 days from their longtime location at the parking lot at Southwest 5th Ave. and Stark St., and there’s likely no way to stop it. […]