Peopled with business representatives, the groups give recommendations to the mayor In late January, the mayor’s office announced a new plan to restore the Central Eastside Industrial District neighborhood. “My office has partnered with the Central Eastsi ...
8 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Emails with city officials raise questions about what is and isn’t lobbying Sam Adams, then-director of strategy and innovation for Mayor Ted Wheeler, professed optimism in an interview with the newly minted Revitalize Portland Coalition, or RPC, publishe ...
25 Jan 2023 - Piper McDaniel
State agencies can’t agree on who’s responsible. Experts say this is a transparency problem. Federal laws require state prisons to track all in-custody deaths, but a Street Roots investigation shows these reports are often incomplete in Oregon. Street Roo ...
28 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel
An attorney tasked with enforcing similar protections tells Street Roots why protections work and how they serve to level an uneven playing field What would Portland renters do if their landlord shut off the water and refused to turn it back on? While dir ...
14 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Oregon is in a housing crisis. Experts say eviction court is part of the problem. What’s surprising about watching eviction court proceedings is how utterly bureaucratic they are. People on the receiving end of eviction are devastated. They are scrambling ...
7 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel
A resignation letter said the recently passed plan to ban unsanctioned encampments and construct mass camps will lead to 'irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths' In another chapter of the city of Portland’s protracted struggle to address home ...
2 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Sen. Wyden's DASH Act languishes in committee, despite being among most comprehensive current proposals to address homelessness If a person is battling hunger, the logical solution is to provide food. Newly re-elected Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR, applies th ...
23 Nov 2022 - Piper McDaniel
A free browser extension collects crowdsourced data to see how ads show up in users social media feeds and who paid for them to be there When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, people were shocked: voters, media, pollsters and analysts al ...
26 Oct 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Candidates running in districts 33, 38, 41, 43 and 49 Maxine Dexter (D), State Rep. District 33, Portland, Incumbent, Submitted answers Maxine Dexter (D), District 33 1. What do you believe is the main cause of the homelessness crisis? In terms of concret ...
12 Oct 2022 - Aurora Biggers and Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Sharon Meieran believes the Joint Office of Homeless Services should be ‘overhauled’ to fix the county's ongoing gridlock in addressing homelessness. Her opponent, Jessica Vega Pederson argues the office needs more investment. Homelessness and housin ...
5 Oct 2022 - Piper McDaniel