The congressman from Portland hopes to flip the script on centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination Congressman Earl Blumenauer doesn’t consider himself naive. He’s been in politics most of his life, from the Portland City Council to serving Orego ...
13 Sep 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
COMMENTARY | 50 years after the Fair Housing Act, segregation and discrimination persist in Portland I won’t try to define progress, but I know it when I see it – to paraphrase that famous Supreme Court case on obscenity – and when we look back 50 years t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Allan Lazo
COMMENTARY | Let's slow down, explore our biases, listen to people of color and truly address racism A few years ago, I wrote about race in social work and the structural and interpersonal racism that went undiscussed in Portland. Portland seemed to ...
13 Apr 2018 - Shannon Singleton
How it happens, who it harms, and how we can work toward a solution Insufficient income taxes on the rich, cash-starved local governments and opportunistic developers constitute the ingredients for a particularly bitter pill for low-income people: higher ...
27 Apr 2017 - Jared Paben