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Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm starts making hemp products
The farm now grows acres upon acres of hemp, a plant that looks (and smells) like marijuana, but contains only trace amounts of THC, the compound in marijuana that causes users to get high on the drug. → Read More
Here’s How Long It Took Us to Walk From Wapato Jail to a Grocery Store
The proposed site of a temporary homeless shelter is a long way from social services—and everything else. → Read More
Faced With Rent Hike, East Portland Tenants Plaster Landlord’s Neighborhood With Fliers
The tenants of an East Portland apartment complex facing a 40-percent rent hike have tried to get their landlord’s attention for over a month. They’ve posted an open letter on Medium, gotten over 400 signatures on an online petition, and demonstrated outside the office of the property management company overseeing the building. Now, the tenants, along … Continue reading Faced With Rent Hike,… → Read More
After School Satan Club Will Start an Elementary School Chapter in East Portland
Opponents of an evangelical Christian children’s club in East Portland’s public schools have filed a request to start an After School Satan Club at Sacramento Elementary. In a facility-use request filed with the Parkrose School District on Sept. 5, the Portland chapter of a group called the Satanic Temple asks to host meetings on campus. … Continue reading After School Satan Club Will Start an… → Read More
The Thorns’ Olympians Talk About Losing in Rio and Feeling Sympathy for Hope Solo
Rio is still haunting the Portland Thorns. → Read More
An Evangelical Christian Club Has Quietly Established Chapters in East Portland Elementary Schools
In September 2015, David Linn’s 6-year-old son came home from Sacramento Elementary in East Portland with an unusual flier. The flier promoted an after-school program called the Good News Club. In red block letters, it advertised “Dynamic Bible Lessons” and “Life-Changing Scripture Memory,” taking place in the school’s gymnasium. A year later, the Good News … Continue reading An Evangelical… → Read More
You Can Now Use Uber to Hail a Classic Taxi Cab in Portland
If you can’t beat ‘em, join their app. As of today, Portlanders can use the ride-hailing app Uber to hail a taxi from one of three local cab companies: New Rose City Cab Company, Portland Taxi Cab Company and Green Cab. The ride-sharing app’s partnership with the Portland companies went live today, allowing Portland users … Continue reading You Can Now Use Uber to Hail a Classic Taxi Cab in… → Read More
East Portland Landlord Gives Tenants a Choice: Pay a $375-a-Month Rent Hike, or Get Evicted
Aleina Langford is faced with an impossible choice. The landlord of her outer Southeast Portland apartment has given her two options: leave the apartment by Oct. 21, or sign up for a one-year, &u0024;1,200-a-month lease—a 45 percent rent hike from what she used to pay for the two-bedroom apartment. She has until Aug. 19 to … Continue reading East Portland Landlord Gives Tenants a Choice: Pay a… → Read More
Protesters to Charlie Hales: “You Can’t Sweep People, You Can Only Sweep Garbage”
Mayor Charlie Hales’ deal to delay planned sweeps of homeless camps from the Springwater Corridor reduced protesters at Portland City Hall on Thursday. But it didn’t satisfy them. About 45 people organized by Portland Tenants United gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday afternoon, calling on Hales to cancel the sweep of camps from … Continue reading Protesters to Charlie Hales: “You Can’t… → Read More
Homelessness Activists Trying to March Springwater Corridor Campers Into Mayor Charlie Hales’ Neighborhood
In the wake of an eviction notice from Mayor Charlie Hales, hundreds of homeless people camping along the Springwater Corridor bike trail in East Portland are trying to figure out where to go. Some organizers are looking for a new campsite. As first reported by The Portland Mercury on Saturday, the activist group Boots on … Continue reading Homelessness Activists Trying to March Springwater… → Read More
Portland’s Best Fashion Designed by Homeless Youth
The homeless youth who design T-shirts for Dfrntpigeon (pronounced “different pigeon”) say they feel a connection to the titular bird—misunderstood and often-overlooked. → Read More
Old? Poor? ZOOM+ May Not See You Now
Oregon and Washington labor organizations will be protesting outside of two ZOOM+ clinics in Seattle and Portland today, accusing the on-demand neighborhood health clinics of discriminating against poor and elderly patients. In Portland, the protest will be located outside the Hawthorne ZOOM+ clinic at noon. The organizations are speaking out against ZOOM+’s policy of not … Continue reading Old?… → Read More
Working-Class Women in Oregon Are Running Out of Job Options
Oregon women without college degrees have fewer options today than they did in 2000, according to a new analysis from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. The reason? Office support jobs, such as administrative assistants, are now in much lower demand, while jobs like file clerks and typists have been made almost completely obsolete. “My … Continue reading Working-Class Women in Oregon Are… → Read More
Transient Boater Who Pulled Gun on Drone Says His Privacy Was Invaded
Donald Yates says he was taking an afternoon nap when he heard the buzzing sound. He glanced outside the two-story motorboat where he’s lived for five years, currently moored on the eastern bank of the Willamette River in St. Johns. Outside his window was a drone. “I just sat up and looked, and it was … Continue reading Transient Boater Who Pulled Gun on Drone Says His Privacy Was Invaded → Read More
Look, Guys, You Can’t Just Sell Jell-O Shots on the Beaches of Sauvie Island
The Oregon State Police is sick of your drunken shenanigans on Sauvie Island. So they’re calling out the bad behavior of beachgoers. As crime blotters go, it’s a fun read. In a press release sent out this evening, state police listed the scofflaws they caught in a single weekend, June 24-26, on Portland’s pumpkin-patch Jersey … Continue reading Look, Guys, You Can’t Just Sell Jell-O Shots on the… → Read More
Portland Redditors Rally Around “Drone Man,” Who Plans to Monitor More Homeless People From the Sky
Drone Man, the vigilante filmmaker suddenly notorious for recording Willamette River boat-dwellers firing a gun at his flying camera, announced Wednesday night on Reddit his plans to “double down” his efforts to shoot footage of Portland homeless camps from the sky. “The fact the sheriff did nothing gnaws at me. I want to double down. … Continue reading Portland Redditors Rally Around “Drone… → Read More
Hobo Pirates Fire Gunshot at Drone Filming Their Columbia Slough Boat Camp
A video released this afternoon on YouTube shows a man living on a boat in the Portland’s Columbia Slough appearing to fire a gun at a drone that buzzed the floating camp. For the past week, a YouTube user that goes by the name “Drone Man” been posting videos of boat camps on islands in … Continue reading Hobo Pirates Fire Gunshot at Drone Filming Their Columbia Slough Boat Camp → Read More
Portland is Enticed by a Texas-Sized Homeless Shelter
Two weeks ago, Multnomah County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury traveled to San Antonio to visit Haven for Hope, a homeless shelter built in 2010 that’s received national attention for its claims that it’s reduced by 80 percent the number of people sleeping on the city’s streets. What she saw was a concrete slab. The “Prospects Courtyard” … Continue reading Portland is Enticed by a Texas-Sized… → Read More
City of Portland to Buy Joyce Hotel for $4.22 Million
The Portland Housing Bureau announced Wednesday that it is purchasing the Joyce Hotel, a downtown building that’s long served as a low-cost housing option for Portland’s homeless and low-income population. The City will pay &u0024;4.22 million for the hotel, which the city says is the last weekly-stay hotel of its kind in Portland. The future … Continue reading City of Portland to Buy Joyce… → Read More
“Enough is Enough”: Here’s What Oregon’s U.S. Senators Said During the Gun-Control Filibuster
Early this morning, U.S. Senate Democrats achieved something that, by the current standards of the nation’s gun debate, counts as a major victory: They forced a vote on gun-control legislation. Spurred by Sunday’s mass shooting that killed 49 people in Orlando, Fla., the Senate Democrats took to the floor Wednesday morning for what would become … Continue reading “Enough is Enough”: Here’s What… → Read More