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Portland service providers respond to California governor’s executive order to remove all homeless camps
PORTLAND, Ore. — As a homeless man by choice, Donovan knows what he needs to survive. That includes a large pile of scrap metal filled with aluminum scaffolding pipes, old vacuums and a used electrical board. Donovan says he collected it all from nearby dumpsters sat at one end of his homeless encampment in an industrial part of Northwest Portland.
Mature trees to be airdropped into Troutdale’s Beaver Creek Canyon
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s fully-grown trees being airdropped into Troutdale. Greenery is being brought into East Multnomah County during a jaw-dropping Metro Regional Government operation that will not only support nature and wildlife, but will be quite the spectacle for us humans. On Monday, July 29, low-flying helicopters will be hovering near the intersection of Southeast Troutdale Road and Cochran Road to place 74 whole trees with...
Amid ‘childless cat ladies’ controversy, an Oregon city ranks high in cat ownership, report says
Cats have been Internet stars for years, with endless videos, photos, memes and so on turning up on Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere, inspiring users to make “Awww!” comments, and shower the cute kitty images with likes and shares. This week, however, cats have also been all over the...
Multnomah County Commission turns down ER doc’s proposal to lower ambulance staffing to speed response times
After nearly three hours of deliberation Thursday, the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners rejected a proposal by Commissioner Sharon Meieran, an emergency room doctor, to improve the County’s ambulance response times by lowering ambulance staffing requirements. Her proposal — which urged County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson to allow an...
My opinion: This Democratic presidential contest will not employ ranked choice voting; let’s pretend it does
Let’s play a game. Let’s pretend that readers of this publication get to pick the Democratic nominee for president, and did so via Portland's new ranked choice voting system, which will see its debut this fall. In November, Portlanders will use a new type of election to select a mayor, auditor and city councilors. Rather than vote for one candidate, they'll rank their preferences from a list of candidates. This...
“Voices of Gresham” podcast puts the ‘story in history’
On a hot summer day, Japanese Americans, many of whom had settled in the Gresham area, were told they were being relocated. They had been kept over the summer at the Portland Assembly Center, not knowing of the furious construction that had been going on in the high desert of Idaho. “We were told to pack up and hop on a train.” ...
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