Nathan Vasquez leads in matchup against Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt, poll finds (www.oregonlive.com)
Portland State University’s library to remain closed until fall due to damage from protest (www.koin.com)
Protesters hold onto PSU library (kolektiva.social)
After a long and brutal day of standing off with cops and being subjected to police violence for 12 hours, the students are still standing ground and have taken back the library
Port of Portland will end shipping container service in October - OPB (www.opb.org)
Selling RedTail could jeopardize Portland’s public golf courses, committee says (www.opb.org)
Am I the only one that thinks putting the stadium out in Beaverton seems like a terrible idea from a travel/density perspective? Locating it in the Lloyd District seems like such a no-brainer…
I miss Pok Pok
Portland put costly corner improvements on business owner despite upcoming state project (katu.com)
Portland Mayor Wheeler unveils a new public camping ban policy (www.opb.org)
Multnomah County faces call for systemic change in addiction recovery response (www.koin.com)
Washington County has eliminated homeless encampments (www.oregonlive.com)
Ask Eater: What’s Going on With the Flock Food Hall Downtown? (pdx.eater.com)
This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they’d be offering spots to the food carts they displaced....
Columbia County resident under investigation for allegedly freezing puppies to feed pet snake (katu.com)
Trader Joes Portland Area Boycott? (www.theguardian.com)
Proposing general boycott of Trader Joes. They have joined an unholy trinity of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Starbucks, because they’ve lost so hard in the past few years against workers forming unions (to push back against awful wages and lack of safety and terrible working conditions pronounced by COVID) that since they...
OMSI crowned #1 Science Museum in 2024 Newsweek Readers' Choice Awards (katu.com)
Monkey-wrenching road pricing (cityobservatory.org)
Here’s the fallout from Kotek’s decision to stop all tolling, as well as a history of promises made and then broken about tolling....
Contractor files lien against downtown Portland’s Block 216 tower (www.oregonlive.com)
Gov. Tina Kotek shelves plans for I-5, I-205 tolls in Portland area (www.oregonlive.com)
Anyone going to see ††† (crosses) this Sunday? (www.mcmenamins.com)
I’m new to the area and would love to meet people interested in this kind of synthrock music. Or at least to hear about some local/regional bands with something similar going on....