Last month, a U.S. District court ruling in Portland started a chain reaction that’s slowly stripping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of a controversial policing tool. However, from a data-sharing program to a new mobile fingerprinting init ...
29 May 2014 - Nathan Gilles
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...
15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
A new type of business doing good in Portland The building is striking. Several stories tall and stretching roughly two city blocks, the metal-framed factory’s roof is covered with 4,830 navy blue solar panels. This 850-kilowatt array is the largest of it ...
6 Nov 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Far from major services and programs, the faith-based community and advocates come together to help the homeless in Portland’s northern neighborhood Her day starts early. Around 5 a.m. she gets up. She’s spent the night behind a church. Sometimes it’s a s ...
19 Jun 2013 - Nathan Gilles