At a 2023 campaign rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump addressed blue collar workers: “I want a future that protects American labor, not foreign labor.” Since his inauguration, the Trump ...
When Mic Crenshaw came to Portland, it was sort of like shaking a personal Etch A Sketch. He wanted a fresh start. That is understandable. He had left behind an on-going struggle with white ...
It’s been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, and Oregon is coming up short. When compared with bordering states, Oregon is dead last in terms of designated ...
As of this writing, today, May 10, is Mother’s Day in Mexico and Central America. I am standing on a small piece of land outside the Detention Center of ICE in Tacoma, Wash. We are here to remember ...
Front-end staff worry plexiglass dividers won't protect them during holiday crowd levels It’s been eight months since an employee at Portland's Pearl District Whole Foods on Northwest Couch Street and ...
Experts say Trump’s National Guard deployment in the U.S. capital had different legal implications than in Portland. The risk of military sweeps of homeless encampments is low, but not zero.
Violence on the streets of Portland? Nope. At least, not yet. Social media posts, on the other hand, and camera crews embedded with federal officers to produce inflammatory content? That’s what’s real ...
With President Donald Trump raring to send National Guard troops to Portland, the response appears to be largely focused on the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where small protests ...
That’s the phrase numerous leaders used when addressing Portlanders concerned about the impending incursion of federal forces into Portland. It’s not without some merit, albeit a little strained.
Picciotto maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades before she died in January at a homeless shelter Three days after her death, Concepcion Piccioto’s protest ...
The Portland Police Bureau recently made a stunning and unprecedented discovery — but, sadly, no one noticed. Probably because most of us knew it all along. Their non-breakthrough was this: Sometimes, ...