The thing about the news is that it’s never finished. The world—and, more specifically, the Portland news ecosystem—is a swirling ball of chaos, and the events, issues, and personalities that dominated 2019’s headlines aren’t going to stay neatly contained in that one year.
That said: 2019 was a hell of a year to be a Portlander, and lists are fun. So we’ve put together 26 of the biggest news stories of 2019—stories that we think will have repercussions in 2020 and beyond.
As luck would have it—and despite the fact that calendars are a social construct, and so is the alphabet, and neither can fully explain what happened over the last 365 days—those 26 stories just so happen to fit perfectly into an alphabet. Consider it our belated holiday gift to you.
