Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War all too well. In 1977 his first child was born with a number of birth defects that he believes were the result of his exposure to Agen ...
10 May 2014 - Emily Green
Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler admits that most Oregonians know very little about what he does — he said even he didn’t know much about the job before he took it. But it’s an important position, and as financial concerns grow across the state, his dep ...
17 Jul 2014 - Emily Green
The greater-Portland area is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Not only does need drastically outweigh availability — with some waiting years to access housing within their financial means — those who do obtain affordable homes often find them ...
13 Aug 2014 - Emily Green
They’re everywhere, but often go unnoticed — the empty lots and vacant buildings that dot many of Portland’s thoroughfares and neighborhoods. Overgrown with innumerable weeds or concealed by a layer of asphalt, they hardly catch the eye. But in a city tha ...
27 Aug 2014 - Emily Green
Since the completion of the Big Pipe project in 2011, which stopped Portland’s sewage from spilling into the Willamette River during rainstorms, there’s been a movement led by Human Access Project to change the public’s perception about swimming in the ri ...
27 Aug 2014 - Emily Green
Each day Sean Morgan wakes up just as the light of morning creeps into view — a habit he picked up from years of working as a concrete finisher. He turns on his stove, boils water in a teakettle and then pours it into a French press with three scoops of g ...
25 Sep 2014 - Emily Green
The Clean Water Act of 1972 made it a lot harder for industrial facilities to dump large amounts of toxic materials into U.S. waterways with the institution of a permitting process with limits on toxic releases – it put a stop to many of the activities th ...
23 Oct 2014 - Emily Green
This holiday season marks the 100-year anniversary of one of the most remarkable moments in history: The 1914 Christmas Truce – when World War I soldiers battling on the Western Front laid down arms during the days leading up to Christmas. Gifts and cigar ...
1 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
Governor John Kitzhaber’s newly proposed budget includes an unprecedented investment of $100 million to increase housing for homeless families with children – a hefty investment when compared with a similarly funded investment of only $7.5 million during ...
1 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
For decades, Art Hazelwood has used his sinister style of art as a means of educating society about complex social issues by way of posters and books. His often dark and nefarious-looking images frequently attack powerful figures that he believes are dire ...
2 Dec 2014 - Emily Green