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City ordinance to protect Portland renters could be dashed by association of landlords called Multifamily NW. Last week, dozens of dire Portlanders flocked to David Douglas High School for a free class focused on Portland’s new Tenant Relocation Assistance ordinance. Throughout the class, hands rose into the air from people that seemed desperate to vent …
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No Longer a Lost History: The City of Vanport is Revived in the Inaugural Vanport Mosaic Festival. Sixty-eight years ago yesterday on May 30th, 1948, the Columbia River spilled over a dike and flooded the City of Vanport, which rested where Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway is today. The town was built between Vancouver, …
Nine Candidates Focus on Economic Issues and Inclusive Politics. One important message stands out from the Portland Mayoral debates that took place on Thursday at the Oregon Historical Society: Inclusiveness. All nine candidates have their brand of community-driven politics. All of them envision a bountiful, prosperous future for Portland, so it all comes down to …
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Featured image from Wikinews. Viral ABC News story turns out to be a hoax as Belgium judge acquits the scandalous religion. Thousands if not millions of people today celebrated that Scientology had been dissolved as a tax-exempt religious corporation by the United States Supreme Court, as reported by ABC News. Only thing was that the story …
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Featured Image by Keylay Tukor Syria takes the heat for the cold war Western nations largely support regime change in Syria but haven’t the will to do it. That is understandable because Iraq, Afghanistan, and more recently, Libya have all turned out disastrous, following Western-sponsored regime change. Each mission has contributed to the illicit proliferation …
At least 1,600 signatures will be delivered Monday morning to the Hood River County elections office by county residents with the Local Water Alliance. Their petition will place the Hood River Water Protection Measure on the 2016 ballot, in response to seven years of planning that would give Nestlé staggering access to vital waters. With each year, more voices …
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Evan Kristof shares his love of design and the Tilikum’s role in expanding Portland. Portland’s newest bridge, The Tilikum Crossing, looks especially elegant from the rooftop deck of the old Washington High school in southeast. The river is obscured looking towards downtown over the spread of leafy green and dusty roofs, but the crossing’s clean white peaks …
The United States holds 25% of the world’s prison population with over two million incarcerated individuals. African-Americans represent about 13% of the U.S. population, but are incarcerated at six times the rate of white Americans, according to the NAACP. At face value, any politician can use these statistics as a sweeping indictment against African-Americans, the contentious …
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The silence of Basset stirs many rumors. He was a star in Syria as the national soccer team’s goalkeeper, and were he to have fled Syria like four million others since 2011, peace and good fortune would characterize his life. He might have been in the World Cup by joining a different nation’s team, becoming …
