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Budget season is over.
But, scroll to the bottom to behold a new season: Councilors introducing failed budget amendments as council ordinances. (Both from the moderate and progressive council blocs.)
As Portland's homeless population grows, people – and politicians – are drawn to blanket assumptions about the lives of people living unsheltered, often leaving individual stories lost in the shuffle.
Here's one of those stories:
Hush Season 2 won the SPJ Award for best investigative audio reporting! The SPJ judges did what OPB leadership admitted they never did before canning our show: they actually took the time to listen to Hush.
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The county chair's race is heating up:
What's going on with the dang Moda Center, why everyone has so many Opinions about it, how the city is involved, and how YOU can get involved:
Learned yesterday that Becky Lange, a woman I spoke with years ago about being destabilized by homeless sweeps, was killed after being assaulted in downtown Portland last week.
She was a bright light. And not the first person experiencing homeless I've interviewed who's been fatally assaulted.
You have 180 days left to eat foie gras in Portland:
The latest turn of the screw in this bureaucratic saga related to Portland's ICE bldg.
How the national Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, meant to boost affordable housing development, has created a glut of empty apartments out of reach to low-income renters:
‘Something dramatically wrong’: Questions but few answers after Longview mill tragedy
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Nearly 2,000 of Portland’s subsidized units sat vacant and unused at last count. The same situation has repeated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver. Economists and other academic res...
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After nearly two months of long-winded debates and indecision, Portland has a budget, but no one is thrilled about it.
As crews continue to work through hazardous conditions, company and government officials say it’s too early to know what might have caused the implosion in Longview that killed 11 people.
Portland attorneys are challenging the land use violation order at the ICE building, calling it “textbook gamesmanship."
Everyone is sharing their SPJ awards, so I'll post Hush won for investigative audio reporting.
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The owner of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building has blocked the city from ruling on a land use violation against his property, a ruling that could have imposed steep fines against him.
