Announced before holiday weekend, emergency ordinance skirts transparency, authorizes PPB to bolster shields and munitions inventory The day before Memorial Day weekend began, Portland City Council abruptly scheduled a May 29 vote to authorize Portland Po ...
27 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden and K. Rambo
In a 4-0 vote, the Environmental Quality Commission is the latest in a series of regulators to acknowledge impropriety, abdicate authority A state regulatory board denied environmental advocates’ petition requesting the board hold a hearing regarding Zeni ...
24 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, addressing homelessness requires more work, regardless of outcome Cassy Leach woke up early on April 22, the day the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson across the c ...
8 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Nonprofit managing city shelter sites spent thousands of dollars and countless hours garnering officials’ favor without reporting lobbying, Portland City Auditor finds The Portland City Auditor determined California-based homelessness nonprofit Urban Alch ...
1 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The Oregon town’s homeless residents say it is impossible to avoid being punished for having no place to live Laura Gutowski lives just down the street from the Grants Pass home she resided in for 25 years. Her son used to play baseball in Morrison Centen ...
3 Apr 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
A coalition of public health experts and environmental organizations want the county to phase out gas appliances A coalition of 25 organizations submitted a letter to Multnomah County, asking them to take action to reduce the health and safety impacts a ...
27 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Portland city auditor investigated Zenith Energy after public records revealed closed-door meetings The Portland City Auditor determined Zenith Energy violated city lobbying code in its pursuit of a Land Use Compatibility Statement, or LUCS, in 2022. In a ...
26 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The exhibition explores the history of police violence and imaginative visions of the future Calavera Copter has teeth. The paper helicopter hanging from the rafters, casts a long shadow across a blue wall some 10 feet wide where three impressionist water ...
20 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
After contentious public testimony, the board passed a resolution tailored for consensus The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza on March 7. Demonstrators gathered outside the Mu ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Cascade Natural Gas is gambling with ratepayer dollars, critics say “We cannot allow further investments in pipelines when we must phase out all fossil fuel use,” Carra Sahler, Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School staff attorney and dire ...
28 Feb 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden