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  1. Mayor drops campaign, calls housing and homelessness top priorities

    'We’ve got some good things starting' Mayor Charlie Hales, fresh from announcing he will not seek reelection in 2016, says that housing and homelessness are “job one,” demanding “real time, real effort and real money.” In a call from Hales aroun ...

    26 Oct 2015 -

  2. Solution to the housing crisis starts with us

    There’s a lot of reason to celebrate this Independence Day. July Fourth is a time to look back on the founding of the United States and the documents that shape and control our democracy. We saw the system at its best during the last days of June: the Sup ...

    7 Jul 2015 - Janet Byrd

  3. Tori Abernathy: the Portland Renters' Assembly is now in session

    Artist and activist Tori Abernathy talks about housing justice and the activist role of Portland's arts community In February, local artist and activist Tori Abernathy decided to use her latest installation piece “Make Yourself at Home”— exploring id ...

    25 May 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot

  4. Planet Portland: New beginning

    For Cuban Geovani Rodriguez, freedom means many things Geovani Rodriguez was 21 when he sailed away from Cuba on a homemade raft. He wasn’t afraid of the voyage, he says, even though his younger brother, Herminio, died when he left the island nation on a ...

    7 May 2015 - Emily Green

  5. The evolution of Revolution (Hall)

    Defunct for decades, the former Washington High School space reopens this month as a performing arts venue called Revolution Hall — a ‘mini-Schnitz’ Walking the halls of Washington High School in Southeast Portland, I am nostalgic about my old high school ...

    9 Apr 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar

  6. Climate-policy leadership begins with Portland

    California has one year of water left and is in a drought cycle with no end in sight. Let that sink in. Climate change is happening, and the effects are already terrifying. The pace and intensity of change are only expected to increase the longer we wait ...

    3 Apr 2015 - Nick Caleb

  7. Grateful for the gift of gardening

    Northeast Portland gardener Tom Lichatowich finds hope in gardening and community “I think my favorite plant to grow is lettuce. Lettuce is very energetic, germinates quickly, and adds so much to the harvest with very few inputs,” Tom Lichatowich muses. T ...

    3 Apr 2015 - Robin Schauffler

  8. Director's Desk: Homelessness series packed with many lessons

    Oregonian reporter Anna Griffin talks with Israel Bayer about her special report on homelessness in Portland Anna Griffin has been around the block. After spending 10 years at the Charlotte Observer, Griffin moved west to take a job at The Oregonian. Her ...

    12 Mar 2015 - Israel Bayer

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