How one Portland woman has dedicated her life to saving animals from slaughter Dani Rukin’s legs are a little shaky as she approaches the front doors of a Safeway in Southeast Portland. She glances down at the sign in her hand – a picture of a bloated pig ...
25 May 2017 - Elizabeth Buelow
Environmental and immigrant rights groups joined forces to decry visit from Jessica Vaughan Before they could make it inside a Salem Best Western for their general meeting on Saturday, Oregonians for Immigration Reform members passed by protesters holding ...
8 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Concerned property owners in Coos County are pushing back after the blocked proposal resurges In the whirlwind of deregulation and corporate jubilance surrounding President Donald Trump, Canada-based Veresen Inc. hopes to find some new wind in its sails. ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Michelle Romero wants Oregon to follow California’s lead: Price carbon emissions and put the revenue back into communities most affected by climate change Lawmakers in Salem are considering five different bills with the same goal of significantly reducing ...
9 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
Elden Hillaire, of the Lummi Nation, discusses threats to the region’s tribal lands on the heels of Trump’s executive orders concerning the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines President Donald Trump made headlines just days after his inauguration when ...
16 Feb 2017 - Stephen Quirke
The state is required to adopt rules for a community solar program, and it's looking to Colorado and Minnesota for ideas As their deadline approaches, policymakers are figuring out how to implement state-mandated community solar programs across Orego ...
16 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
Craft brewers have joined efforts to protect the largest swath of untouched and unprotected wilderness in the lower 48 states When President Barack Obama left the White House without declaring Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands a national monument, he left the l ...
14 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
The EPA has approved the plan, but questions linger about whether the new administration might defund enforcement After months of public comment and many more years of study, the Environmental Protection Agency has finally approved its plan for cleaning u ...
2 Feb 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Portlanders load bus with supplies for protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline Early Friday, Jan. 13, the second “Bunk Bus” was scheduled to leave Portland for Standing Rock, N.D. Outfitted with insulated walls, a 35,000 BTU heater, eight beds and a medi ...
12 Jan 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategy consultant, pushes for ‘self-gentrification’ – development from within the community Majora Carter may not be a household name in Portland, but she is somewhat of a celebrity in South Bronx, where she was bo ...
12 Dec 2016 - Emily Green