Over 150 people demonstrated prior to attending a board meeting, providing testimony A broad coalition of local residents and organizations gathered at the Multnomah County board meeting Feb. 1, asking the county board to pass a resolution calling for a p ...
1 Feb 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Where SR stands on amendments to the state constitution, city and county charter reforms Charter reform measure (Measure 26-228) This measure promises to bring Portland’s city government into the modern era, improve representation on City Council, rein i ...
19 Oct 2022 - SR editorial board
I’ve been to scores of protests. I've experienced violence by police. And I’m terrified. The mayor and police chief aren’t hearing Portland's BIPOC voices. G eorge Floyd’s tragic and unnecessary death hit me in the heart and the gut. While I was ...
2 Sep 2020 - Marcelle Donehower
DIRECTOR’S DESK | To whom it may concern... Rich taped a valentine to the brick wall in the vendor office. He made it during a recent vendor office valentine-making party and addressed it this way: “To Whom it May Concern.” He was grinning when he showed ...
22 Feb 2019 - Kaia Sand
Federal government isn’t solving big-picture problems, so maybe… The seasons are changing here in Portland. The sun is finally starting to shine with some consistency, the days are getting longer, the darkness is fading into winter’s past, conversations o ...
1 Jun 2015 - M. Nels Johnson