Can PREAM help turn a tide of lackluster pizza openings?
SE Portland
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Ride Along
Forget Pho. Quán Linh Defines Vietnamese Home Cooking.
Forget pho. Quán Linh defines Vietnamese home cooking.
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Dirty Dancing
Powell Strip Club Promises to Clean up its Act
Safari Showclub promises to please its neighbors.
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The Wrong Guy
Man Tasered on Belmont after Dialing 911
First, Clifton Brooks is assaulted by two strangers. Then, he’s Tasered by the cops. Tough day.
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Soccer Town
Lents Gnaws on Beavers Stadium Idea
A Beavers stadium in Lents could mean big money—and big changes.
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Night Light Fight
Police Taser Cyclist, Sparking Outrage
WHAT BEGAN the night of June 10 as a traffic stop for a missing bike light ended in Tasering—and a cyclist’s screams, heard a block away. As Portland Police Bureau Officers Erin Smith and Ron Hoesly were writing out a missing bike light ticket to Diana Spartis on SE 7th and Alder, the police noticed […]
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Streetwalker Holiday
Neighbors Note Prostitution Spike Along 82nd
RECENTLY, neighbors in the Montavilla neighborhood have noticed a sharp increase in the number of sex workers along 82nd Avenue between SE Powell and NE Sandy. Most residents attribute the influx to one thing: the end of Portland’s Prostitute-Free Zones (PFZs). Together with Drug-Free Zones (DFZs), the “free zones” gave police the authority to “exclude” […]
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Broken Justice
Cops Cite Injured Bicyclist; Not Van Driver
Zajim Smajlovic, a Bosnian truck driver, was riding his bicycle home on SE Holgate one afternoon last October, returning from picking up some photos from Walgreens on SE 82nd. As usual, once he reached SE 78th, he turned left, using the crosswalk to get to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street—an easier […]
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Bagging the Burnside Booster
Shoplifted Boutiques Fight Back
A GROUP of boutique shop owners on East Burnside have found a creative new way to fight back against a recurrent shoplifter: crafting their own wanted poster. The allegedly light-fingered young woman first struck Lille Boutique last October, stealing $300 worth of designer underwear. The woman, in her mid-20s and dressed in brown overalls, was […]
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Good-Bye, Felony Flats
Southeast Residents Develop a “No-Tolerance Attitude”
“When I first started coming here, this neighborhood was more or less a meth capital. Methamphetamines were rampant, especially on 65th and Foster. “Right here, you could get meth,” Kenny Sadler said as he straddled his mountain bike and gestured to the intersection a few feet away. “You could get whatever you needed. It was […]