Housing advocates plan to push for further renter protections when the Legislature’s regular session begins next month The Oregon State Legislature met in a special session Dec. 21 and extended the state’s eviction moratorium to June 30, despite concerns ...
30 Dec 2020 - Tom Henderson
Front-end staff worry plexiglass dividers won't protect them during holiday crowd levels It’s been eight months since an employee at Portland's Pearl District Whole Foods on Northwest Couch Street and Twelfth Avenue died from complications relat ...
24 Dec 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Part of the decrease is attributed to less accurate counting while students are learning remotely The number of students identified as homeless in Portland Public Schools is nearly half what it was this time last year — but district officials say those nu ...
23 Dec 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Housing advocates say the legislation fails to prevent housing instability for thousands of Oregonians. Property owners say they won’t get adequate protection. Oregon lawmakers say they want renters to stay in their homes, but advocates on both sides of t ...
2 Dec 2020 - Tom Henderson
A prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary shares his experience in isolation after being tested for the virus Reprinted with permission from All Rise magazine. I sat on the top bunk of my 8-by-10 cell. As a 62-year-old man, I suffered from heart disease, an ...
29 Nov 2020 - Jimmie Cohron
Photographer B Okabe captured this unusual moment in history as seen by those who live and work in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood Houseless people and members of other disenfranchised communities have called Old Town home throughout Portland’s ...
18 Nov 2020 - B Okabe
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | By protecting themselves, workers can better protect the people they serve We need strong unions, all of us. Tragically, although perhaps not surprisingly, even during the pandemic businesses continue to aggressively resist worker ...
11 Nov 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
The failure to provide adequate care in correctional facilities is a symptom of an overburdened system “ I ncarceration affects health. In fact, more than half of the population in prisons and jails are at high risk for COVID-19 because many have chronic ...
11 Nov 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
Officials attribute the flat numbers to emergency preparedness and good luck The number of new cases of COVID-19 among Portland’s unhoused population has remained flat even as overall case counts have climbed upward, Multnomah County health officials say. ...
4 Nov 2020 - Christen McCurdy
A therapist, medical doctors, journalists and a firefighter are in the thick of today's crises A month of utter destruction caused by devastating wildfires. Four months of nightly standoffs with protesters standing up for Black lives and against poli ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard