Nonprofit Humans for Housing premieres the film at the Newmark Theatre on Sept. 27. When Michael Larson was 24, he started the nonprofit Humans for Housing to raise awareness about homelessness. Now, just over a year later, the group will premiere “No Pla ...
18 Sep 2024 - Ellen Clarke
Cities blame state law for crippling efforts on homelessness, but as conditions deteriorate, even Gov. Kotek is staying quiet about homeless Oregonians’ rights Dr. Bruce Murray was livid. He sat inside a van at a new city-designated site for homeless Gra ...
13 Sep 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The phone lines are most present in the city’s older neighborhoods with lead spreading hundreds of feet Lead is a long-time issue for Portlanders, as lead levels exceeded the federal action level in drinking water 11 times since the 1990s. Historically, l ...
11 Sep 2024 - Harvin Bhathal
Residents of Marvin’s Garden, a formerly city-sanctioned tent community in Albany, evicted Anthony Miller served as the de facto mayor of Marvin's Garden. He lived in the largest tent in the two gravel lots at the corner of Southeast Ninth Avenue and ...
11 Sep 2024 - Tom Henderson
Third annual Indigenous-led event aims to unify Portland’s Indigenous communities The Land Back Festival, previously known as Paseo, returned to the South Park Blocks at Shemanski Park Sept. 1 to celebrate Indigenous pride. Free live music and dance, poet ...
4 Sep 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Gov. Kotek, environmental advocates demand clarity on Department of Energy’s plans for Hanford Site’s nuclear waste. Public comment is open until Sept. 1. Oregon is not home to the most contaminated land in North America — that award goes to Washington. B ...
30 Aug 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Advocates say a lack of water, shade and other resources endanger people forced to live on a bare lot as hot weather approaches The city of Grants Pass is scrambling to meet basic humanitarian standards after it cleared homeless residents from its parks a ...
30 Aug 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The inaugural event brought together Chamorro and Carolinian communities from throughout the Northwest Oregon’s first-ever Marianas Festival brought the spirit of the islands to the Pacific Northwest. Over two days, the festival held cultural workshops, d ...
28 Aug 2024 - Kanani Cortez
Despite pervasive police narratives and shocking statements from officials, Portland’s post-2020 ‘crime wave’ is exaggerated “Everybody that I know who doesn’t live in Portland is convinced that we burned it to the ground in 2020,” Aaron Roussell, an asso ...
21 Aug 2024 - K. Rambo and Jeremiah Hayden
Proponents of proactive policing argue more police means less crime, but skeptics — and data — paint a more complex picture Narratives abound describing Portland’s mythical defunding of its police force in 2020. As straw man arguments about the lack of po ...
21 Aug 2024 - K. Rambo and Jeremiah Hayden