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A spokesman for the United States Postal Service confirmed that the agency has removed four blue boxes from Portland, and 27 from Eugene this week.
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On Aug. 7, Black activist Ragina Gray was tackled by Portland police at a protest. That same day, Andy Ngo shared Gray’s name and mug shot on Twitter. Twelve nights later, a man showed up on the doorstep of Gray’s mother’s home.
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Gov. Kate Brown's new policy, which mirrors a mandate announced yesterday by Washingon Gov. Jay Inslee, allows no workarounds such as weekly COVID testing. Doctors, nurses and teachers can get vaccinated or lose their jobs.
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Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese Became an unwitting star of Tuesday night's presidential debate, when President Donald Trump incoherently asserted that the "Portland sheriff" had endorsed his reelection bid. Reese gave to Joe Biden.
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"The needless damage that Trump’s secret police did to Riot Ribs—a volunteer-led effort to feed and supply protesters and those in need—shows just how morally bankrupt and cruel this occupation is,” Blumenauer wrote.
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Department of Motor Vehicle records in a national database reviewed by WW show that a van used to whisk away a protester wasn’t a law-enforcement vehicle, but a private rental.
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The Denver Nuggets basketball team was staying in The Nines hotel in downtown Portland on Friday night when leftist activists surrounded the building in pursuit of a man they believed to be conservative author Andy Ngo, WW has learned.
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A new poll finds that Oregonians feel decriminalizing drugs has made things worse.
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4 years
"As soon as I took off my gas mask, bear mace was gushing out of my hair and down my face. I was loaded into an ambulance and I was just howling. It wasn't even a pain that could be solved by crying."
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3 years
In what appears to be a first in Portland history, a grand jury has indicted a police officer for assaulting a person at a protest.
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“Portland had a secret police force for the summer of 2020.”
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4 years
It's snowing in Portland, so you know what that means: People who grew up in places where snow happens regularly emerging from the woodwork to loudly complain about how "no one here can drive in the snow."
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3 years
To this day, the city has refused to disclose the officer’s identity. But now Elijah Warren is suing the city. And for the first time, an officer has been named as a defendant in connection with the Sept. 5 incident: Detective Erik Kammerer.
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Eyewitness testimony from a Portland police informant is one of prosecutors’ strongest pieces of evidence in charging a 19-year-old woman with arson for allegedly setting fire to a police union hall.
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2 years
Ten Portland residents with disabilities filed a class action lawsuit in United States District Court on Tuesday evening, alleging the City of Portland has violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by allowing homeless people to camp on city sidewalks.
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2 years
The old saying is a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. In Portland, many liberals are dodging stray bullets, losing catalytic converters to thieves, and sidestepping tents. Then they open their tax bills.
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8 years
The Women's March on Portland starts at noon. Here's what the crowd already looks like.
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3 years
Good news! Your favorite basketball team apparently won’t feature any anti-vaccination zealots this season.
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8 years
Portland City Council just passed a rule that landlords who evict tenants without cause must pay their moving costs. Effective immediately.
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3 years
It took 106 minutes from the time officers confronted James Chasse on Sept. 17, 2006, to the moment he died. It took years for the truth to come out about how police beat to death an unarmed, mentally ill man who posed no threat.
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3 years
Seven Voodoo Doughnut employees who were fired after walking out on the job during the record-breaking June heat wave were wrongly terminated, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Oct. 6.
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4 years
Trail Blazers star @Dame_Lillard , dressed in sweatpants and a gray Malcolm X shirt, stood at the front of the throng, linking arms with protesters as they traveled west across the Morrison Bridge reciting George Floyd's name.
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3 years
Large isn’t exactly a household name outside Portland, but it’s still funny to watch the judges react as if she’s an undiscovered Waffle House server and not someone who's been singing in huge concert halls for 20 years.
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3 years
Portland can now launch police oversight board that has the authority to investigate officers, compel officer testimony and other witness statements, subpoena documents, and take final disciplinary action against cops—including firing them.
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4 years
Photographs and three eyewitness accounts identify the officer wearing helmet number 67 as Detective Erik Kammerer.
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3 years
After people in black clothing broke the window of Adorn—a local, woman-owned clothes boutique—someone in the crowd asked, “Really? Adorn?” “Fuck Adorn!” someone else in bloc replied.
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4 years
When a man dressed in military gear, holding a rifle and surrounded by a group of the same looks directly at you and says, "I hope nothing bad happens to you or your house," it makes you think that something bad will definitely happen.
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3 years
A union representative thinks the grocers realized the magnitude of the strike quickly: “It might be one of those things where they were waiting to see how it goes, and then they were like, ‘Oh, no’.”
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4 years
Portland's Independent Police Review, an oversight agency for the Portland Police Bureau, has received more than 2,300 police-related complaints in the past week.
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2 years
Kate Brown saved your life.
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3 years
We believe Portlanders have a right to know what Officer Brian Hunzeker did that led to his resignation. We will continue to publish this column until we know what Hunzeker did.
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2 years
Tina Kotek is decisive, focused on bettering the conditions of working-class Oregonians, and driven to the point of ruthlessness to achieve her goals.
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1 year
Ted Wheeler: “I will not be seeking another term as your mayor.”
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1 year
Multnomah County voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have taxed profits on sales of stocks, bonds and real estate to pay legal fees for people facing eviction, early election returns show.
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2 years
This week, Proud Boy Tusitala “Tiny” Toese was found guilty of 10 counts of assault, riot, unlawful use of a weapon, and criminal mischief during that Kmart rally in 2021. He’s now facing 70 months in prison.
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3 years
Every member of the Republican caucus in the Oregon House has written a letter to their colleague Rep. Mike Nearman recommending he resign after he let armed right-wing rioters into the Oregon Capitol last December.
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2 years
Maybe what’s missing from Portland is a healthy, walkable downtown. What would happen if we created a six-block “Carless Square” in the heart of Portland?
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4 years
"While serving on PPB's Rapid Response Team in crowd control situations during a violent riot," one officer wrote, "I was struck with a balloon filled with paint that covered my boots and pants in pink and blue paint ruining their appearance."
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3 years
Since 2007, when a Portland police officer pulls the trigger in the line of duty, Detective Erik Kammerer often investigates. But Kammerer is now under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice for his own alleged use of force.
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"Every American should be repulsed when they see this happening. If this can happen here in Portland, it can happen anywhere.”
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The night manager of Heavenly Donuts says his customers have accepted a recurring protest outside the shop's doors as a minor obstacle in the pursuit of pastry. When the gas hits, the employees lock the doors. Otherwise? It's business as usual.
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2 years
This week, Christine Drazan made her pitch to WW’s editorial board during an endorsement interview. It’s a succinct biography and argument—and displays why Drazan is resonating with prospective voters.
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WW has learned that the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles, which licenses drivers in Oregon, has mistakenly placed more than 300 non-citizens on voter rolls since 2021.
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2 years
A new bill would include the insurance industry under Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act, giving customers the right to sue for damages, plus additional compensation for unfair treatment.
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Yesterday, three Oregon House Republicans said they will introduce legislation in the 2024 session that would make it illegal for public school teachers to strike.
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4 years
A study conducted by the Seattle mayor's office found Portland has the second-lowest rate of COVID-19 cases per capita of the nation's 30 largest cities—behind only Seattle.
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3 years
The petitioners seek to repeal Oregon’s prostitution laws. Should it qualify, the ballot measure could become a sticking point in the Oregon governor’s race.
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4 years
"Simply: I was chased and assaulted because I was a journalist who caught law enforcement behaving in the exact illegal fashion that started this nationwide uproar."
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Portland regional voters appear to have passed a groundbreaking three-county tax on high-income households and businesses to fund services for homeless people.
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8 years
There was no tear gas, no sound grenades. But this felt like a revolution.
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Nathan Vasquez, a longtime Multnomah County prosecutor, is on the verge of unseating his boss, District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
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6 years
Mayor Ted Wheeler said that before a June 30 rally, the Portland Police Bureau discovered right-wing protesters who had positioned themselves on the roof of a building with a cache of firearms.
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4 years
The most obvious reason to believe masks are useful is the fact that doctors, nurses and other biological-agent wranglers have been wearing them for 150 years, and it's kind of stretch to think they've been doing it just to piss you off.
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2 years
Steven Moody died from an accidental gunshot while camping in Lane County. When his wife attempted to collect on a $3,000 life insurance policy, the company refused to pay, citing the presence of traces of cannabis in Moody’s blood. Now, lawmakers want consequences.
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6 years
For weeks, national media hinted that right-wing groups would wreck havoc and even kill someone in Portland today. That didn’t happen. Yet as in past protests, police force was aimed squarely and nearly exclusively at one side: the antifascists.
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Records now make clear that Gov. Tina Kotek’s spouse, Aimee Kotek Wilson, regularly met with people whose employers had major policy or financial interests in front of the state, particularly in the area of behavioral health.
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3 years
Perhaps I speak for some of you when I say: Way to go, dumbshits. Living among the vaccine-resistant is like being in a sinking lifeboat with somebody who keeps drilling holes in the bottom to let the water out.
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2 years
Some of the most chilling results in the poll had nothing to do with downtown at all: Only 41% of respondents felt “very safe” walking alone in their neighborhood during the day, and only 16% felt “very safe” walking alone at night.
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4 years
"The consequences of Donald Trump dispatching federal law enforcement into U.S. cities played out in Portland with a peaceful protester shot in the head," Wyden wrote. "Trump must now answer why federal officers are acting like an occupying army."
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The Oregon Government Ethics Commission today confirmed that it has received a complaint related to the role of first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson in the office of her wife, Gov. Tina Kotek.
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4 years
Oregon voters tonight passed Measures 109 and 110, which legalize psilocybin therapy and decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, respectively.
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1 year
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is crafting a city ordinance that would outlaw the public consumption of hard drugs. including fentanyl, and he’s proposing criminal penalties.
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“The rule in Portland is this...no one in an official capacity will do their job unless you force them to do it.”
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3 years
The city of Portland’s vaccine mandate, announced Aug. 30, is likely to spur widespread resignations of police officers and 911 operators, says the union that represents Portland police.
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3 years
Why is Milwaukie better than Portland at cleaning up campsite trash? The Milwaukie mayor says Portland needs a better form of government.
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On Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Oregon’s ban on recording people in public without their consent. It’s a victory for the right-wing activist group Project Veritas, which sued the state in 2020.
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1 year
The Portland City Council approved a daytime camping ban Wednesday afternoon that gives police officers the authority starting in early July to arrest and jail or fine people who are camping outside and refuse shelter.
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4 years
The ACLU also asked Judge Simon to order acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting Under Secretary Ken Cuccinelli to "personally appear before the court and show cause as to why they should not be sanctioned for contempt."
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4 years
On June 30, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed into law a bill that bans tear gas except in situations police declare to be a riot. Hours later, Portland police officers declared a riot—and deployed tear gas onto protesters.
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4 years
"It's no longer a conservative party committed to a better America for all Americans. It's Trump's Party—riddled with conspiracy theories, racism, sexism and intolerance. It's corrupt to the core."
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3 years
"Portlanders have lost confidence that their government will be there in times of need."
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1 year
Nearly a third of Downtown Portland office space sits empty. Many towers have wound up on “death lists,” aka spreadsheets of buildings that don’t make economic sense anymore. They have too much debt and not enough income from rent to cover it.
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2 years
If you’ve ever experienced the sheer majesty of Juanita’s (shockingly gluten-free) tortilla chips—we’ve got some crazy news for you. Apparently, outside of the PNW, Juanita’s is now known as Juantonio’s.
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4 years
"What needed to be protected last night?" Tina Kotek writes. "An empty office building? Was this need more important than the health of neighbors, of children in a neighborhood, of people returning home from work?"
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Camping on Portland streets is no picnic, and it’s about to get a lot harder. New city ordinances proposed by Mayor Ted Wheeler would criminalize repeated offenses for camping during the day, starting fires, and leaving trash.
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Over the weekend, Phil Knight sat courtside in Las Vegas as his Oregon Ducks elbowed their way into into the NCAA Tournament. On Monday, public records revealed that Uncle Phil took a shot of his own: He gave $2 million to elect legislative Republicans.
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3 years
The penalty is significant in part because Wheeler’s narrow reelection victory in November was largely bankrolled by business interests, which were simultaneously making policy demands of his office that they failed to disclose to the public.
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2 years
Monday's development is of particular relevance to Portland, because several of the indicted men were the architects of regular visits to Portland that resulted in hand-to-hand combat with anti-fascists in the streets.
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4 years
Lawmakers called for an investigation after video surfaced of courthouse personnel using hoses to rinse the grounds of the federal courthouse, which is probably laden with chemical agents.
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2 years
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered the end of a pandemic-era policy of paying the travel expense for state employees who have permanently relocated to other states but periodically return to Oregon for work.
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2 years
Portland isn’t dead. It’s just dead after 10 pm. A 24-hour diner is a nightlight: It says not to fear the darkness.
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23 days
Multnomah County officials in late June held a grand re-opening of a 106-bed shelter in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood at the site of a former Rite Aid. Three months later, the Arbor Lodge shelter hasn’t sheltered a single person.
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Unlike any of Gov. Tina Kotek’s staff, first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson has failed to sign workplace policy documents affirming she is bound by state policies on workplace conduct and ethics laws, including conflict of interest disclosures.
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3 years
Portland bars plan a "Vaxx Coalition" to uniformly require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for entry. “Sometimes they’ve got a photo of themselves getting the shot. I’ll take it. That’s great.”
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1 year
Three days after WW reported that that the Multnomah County Health Department planned to begin distributing “smoking supples,” including tin foil and straws, to fentanyl smokers in Portland, the county is suspending the program.
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Oregon’s coffers are overflowing. State officials have brought in so much tax revenue they expect to return $5 billion in credits to taxpayers next year via “the kicker.”
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