A mid-festival check-in with the Time-Based Art Festival.
Stefan Kamph
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Ponying Up
Voters Weigh Merits of Public Campaign Financing
Is it game over for Portland’s experiment with public campaign financing?
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BREAKING: Skateboard-Swinging Pioneer Square Guard Received Work Permit as City Responded to Video
A Pioneer Courthouse Square security guard who was uncertified when he swung at a teenager with a skateboard received a work permit a day after a video of the incident aired on the Mercury‘s website, state records show. Documents from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) show no record of employment for […]
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Good Afternoon, News!!
Hope you’re enjoying a sedentary/hydrated/air-conditioned Sunday, as this weekend has seen the hottest day of the year and things will be hawt through tomorrow. In sad creep news, the “Craigslist Killer” has committed suicide in jail. Two men were injured in a stabbing at Portland State University last night. Police are reporting today that they’ve […]
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On Forbidden Ground: The Bull Run Watershed
ALL ABOARD: The Randy-bus. For most of the year, Portland gets its drinking water from the 139-square-mile Bull Run watershed deep in the Mount Hood National Forest. Water from Bull Run Lake and the connected river flow into two man-made reservoirs that feed the city’s drinking water system. Most of the time, the forested area […]
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Good Morning, News!!
President Obama is headed to the Gulf of Mexico to assess economic damage from the oil catastrophe… …and he signed a $600 million “border security” bill that will create 1,000 new border patrol positions. Iran is ready to flip the switch on its first nuclear power plant. AAH! Nuclear Iran! Remember kids, when you see […]
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Multnomah County Library Tops for Circulation
As further evidence that Portland is the capital of socialist plots for a suffocating welfare state, the Multnomah County Library has snagged the nation’s top spot for circulation volume for the eighth year in a row. portlandground.com Actually, we’re number one among libraries serving populations of less than a million, and number two among all […]
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Hitting the Bricks
Cops Covered for Guard Accused in Skateboard Attack
When a rent-a-cop is accused of smacking a skater on the head with a skateboard, things get ugly.
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OPB Infuriates Lefties, NPR Called “Fox Lite”
Commentators (and commenters) on BlueOregon have been enraged over the past few days about an OPB piece claiming that a woman sold her business in Sisters, “because of measures 66 and 67, which she says taxed the company’s profits leaving less money for the business to grow.” Carla Axtman calls bullshit on that, saying if […]
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Where Chasse Cops Went Wrong—The Takedown
There are two versions of what happened when Portland Police Officer Chris Humphreys took James Chasse down to the ground after pursuing him. Multiple witnesses say Chasse was brought down in a “bear hug” or “flying tackle,” while Humphreys later said he had used the bureau’s recommended “knockdown” technique. Here’s eyewitness Constance Doolan describing the […]
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Where Chasse Cops Went Wrong—The Pursuit
Among the many documents released from a protective order surrounding the James Chasse case are a training division report, which finds the officers at fault for chasing and taking down Chasse, and a memo from North Precinct Commander Donna Henderson, which refutes this analysis and says the officers acted properly. Jamie Marquez The training division […]
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Documents Show Chasse Cops Acted Improperly
In this week’s article about the James Chasse case we mention a key piece of evidence prepared by the Chasse family lawyer, Tom Steenson: As part of the settlement, a judge agreed to release key parts of the investigation from a protective order. The files include a confidential 20-page report prepared by the police bureau’s […]