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  1. Opinion | I am a mother and a teacher. Tear gas and bulletproof vests are not my normal.

    I’ve been to scores of protests. I've experienced violence by police. And I’m terrified. The mayor and police chief aren’t hearing Portland's BIPOC voices. G eorge Floyd’s tragic and unnecessary death hit me in the heart and the gut. While I was ...

    2 Sep 2020 - Marcelle Donehower

  2. The human face of the Portland housing emergency

    DIRECTOR’S DESK | To whom it may concern... Rich taped a valentine to the brick wall in the vendor office. He made it during a recent vendor office valentine-making party and addressed it this way: “To Whom it May Concern.” He was grinning when he showed ...

    22 Feb 2019 - Kaia Sand

  3. It's up to City Hall

    Federal government isn’t solving big-picture problems, so maybe… The seasons are changing here in Portland. The sun is finally starting to shine with some consistency, the days are getting longer, the darkness is fading into winter’s past, conversations o ...

    1 Jun 2015 - M. Nels Johnson

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