Dirk VanderHart The conversation around a $15 minimum wage isn’t dead, Portland. It’s probably about to notch a victory. Pending union members’ approval, every Multnomah County employee will make at least $15 an hour by the summer of 2016. That’s thanks to a tentative agreement that 2,600-member AFSCME Local 88—the county’s largest employee union—inked with […]
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Just in Time for Winter Sports: Evo
Mmmm, does Portland really need another huge outdoor apparel store? Judging from the size of the new Evo store—11,000 sf—that’s finally open after months of construction (in the historic former Salvation Army HQ), the answer appears to be a resounding “hell yes.” This is Evo’s second location, after the original in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. At […]
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This Week’s Style Events
The latest and greatest and updated-est! • All this month, bring in a used coat (or more) to Lizard Lounge, which is collecting them for Transition Projects, and get 20 percent off of a new one. Win, win, done, and done. Lizard Lounge, 1323 NW Irving • Marine Layer has its own Airbnb loft, because why […]
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This Week’s Style Events!
You have about a month before the universe will conspire to make you feel weird about buying anything that isn’t a gift for someone else. Just sayin’. Here’s what’s happening in the wonderful world of local retail commerce this week—with bonus material that didn’t make print, as usual: • Downtown’s Solestruck Showroom has been open […]
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Oregon Might be Spending $13 Million More on Prisoners Than Predicted Next Budget
Ever since the state announced much-touted prison reforms passed last year wouldn’t be as potent as originally predicted, we’ve been trying to figure out what that means in dollars and cents. Oregon’s plan is this: Ease up on certain crimes (low-level robberies, driving with a suspended license, certain identity thefts and drug offenses), thereby reducing […]
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This Weekend’s Style Events: Bonus Round
The best way to spend your mad money (or your carefully budgeted allowance) this weekend (and beyond), with a few bonus additions that came in after print deadlines: • Garnish celebrates the major milestone of 10 years of business. The party’ll feature a fashion show of looks from their current collection, door prizes, and photo […]
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Vote, Damn You: Your Daily Reminder
According to county elections officials, you’ve got your ballot by now, if you’re getting one. Think you got slighted? Call the elections office at 503-988-3720 and see what you can work out. To those who have gotten ballots, vote already! Your ballots are due by 8 pm on November 4. Here’s how we came down […]
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Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at Moda Center; Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014
Jimmy Buffett reminds his fans what city they’re in. Parrotheads flocked en masse Tuesday night to the Moda Center, where Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band provided some indoor tropical escapism as a welcome alternative to the dark, rainy alternative outside. At this point, Buffett’s fans are as much of the show as he […]
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Portland is Crumbling—Just Ask City Bureaus
Honestly, it’s a miracle this clattering, smoking contraption of a city even keeps rolling (the chard-drunk Washington Post, notwithstanding). For proof, waggle a few million bucks in fresh maintenance cash. Among the bleak specters that will emerge: bridges threatening to crumble onto the interstate; precarious, shoddily constructed retaining walls; fueling stations for city vehicles in […]
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SIXSEVEN, Shop North of West, and Other Retail Booms
I’m still recovering from the excitement of West End Select Shop‘s opening, and I literally had a dream about how awesome the new, expanded Palace is going to be (it’s slated for a grand-reveal shindig on Nov 1). It just keeps happening, though. In between the moves and expansions of Frances May (which is moving […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Finally Has Support for Street Closures! Provided He Drastically Changes Them
Mayor Charlie Hales seems as surprised as anyone that crime-stopping efforts in gin-and-tonic-happy Old Town are suddenly popular. “This has gone from management of a liability to an opportunity,” Hales said earlier this afternoon, at a hearing on the weekly street closures that have raised hackles in Old Town/Chinatown since they began in December 2012. […]
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Should the Governor Budget for Prison Savings that Might Not Exist?
Source: Oregon Criminal Justice Commission IDENTITY THIEVES can ruin anything in the digital age—including, it turns out, attempts to give them less prison time. With a year of data to go by, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) reaffirmed on Wednesday, October 1, that more lenient sentences are working to cut Oregon's prison growth, with […]