Students feel unheard and unsafe while teachers feel pressure for speaking out Editor’s note: The last names of students quoted in this article have been withheld for their safety. More than 300 students walked out of school and protested at the Portland ...
27 Mar 2024 - Kevin Foster
A coalition of public health experts and environmental organizations want the county to phase out gas appliances A coalition of 25 organizations submitted a letter to Multnomah County, asking them to take action to reduce the health and safety impacts a ...
27 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Portland city auditor investigated Zenith Energy after public records revealed closed-door meetings The Portland City Auditor determined Zenith Energy violated city lobbying code in its pursuit of a Land Use Compatibility Statement, or LUCS, in 2022. In a ...
26 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The exhibition explores the history of police violence and imaginative visions of the future Calavera Copter has teeth. The paper helicopter hanging from the rafters, casts a long shadow across a blue wall some 10 feet wide where three impressionist water ...
20 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Years-long community advocacy sees results and secures funding for improvements to the park Five years ago Mat Randol and Donovan Scribes formed a group, The Kidz Outside (TKO), with the purpose of advocating for much-needed improvements at George Park in ...
20 Mar 2024 - Ellen Clarke
OSU awarded $10 million grant to work with 13 tribes to spur economic development with hemp production Tribes across the Northwest will soon make a foray into a new economic venture: hemp production and manufacturing. On March 10, Oregon State University’ ...
20 Mar 2024 - Melanie Henshaw
After contentious public testimony, the board passed a resolution tailored for consensus The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza on March 7. Demonstrators gathered outside the Mu ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats’ new album, ‘Sending up Flares’ embraces collectivity, community and love Billy Bragg was a veteran of both protest music and actual protests when he released “Workers Playtime” in 1988… an album of love songs fueled by a p ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jason Cohen
2023 Point in Time count reveals 4,857 unsheltered women across Oregon Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of intimate partner violence. Alana’s friends warned her when she moved from Salem to Portland with her boyfriend. The couple had b ...
6 Mar 2024 - Ellen Clarke
Cascade Natural Gas is gambling with ratepayer dollars, critics say “We cannot allow further investments in pipelines when we must phase out all fossil fuel use,” Carra Sahler, Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School staff attorney and dire ...
28 Feb 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden