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A notable shift in tone arrives at Portland City Hall under its new commissioner for public safety.
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“It’s the Wild West out here.”
Direct quote from @PDXFire rank & file of Station 7, in East Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood.
Time to confront the city's addiction crisis/lawlessness our first responders and residents have been forced to endure on a daily basis.
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This story truly has it all, including a perp named Jericho Labonte:
Police arrest man they say left dead fish at Astoria’s ‘Goonies’ house, stole yacht and prompted harrowing Coast Guard rescue
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It was a wild 48 hours for Jericho Labonte. Astoria police say Labonte stole a $160,000 yacht from the Astoria Port, piloted it in rough seas to the mouth of the Columbia River, then had to be rescue via helicopter after the boat began taking on water.
Video courtesy of USCG
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A Portland govt watchdog says the city should waive penalties for all high-income households that failed to pay new taxes to fund homeless services & universal preschool—or at least inform folks that they are eligible to have the fines canceled / refunded.
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Brian Hunzeker, the Portland Police Officer fired last year by Mayor Ted Wheeler for leaking an incident report falsely identifying Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as the suspect in a hit-and-run, will return to the force.
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Not gonna lie. The Mall 205 Olive Garden tonight is 🔥
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News: Metro & MultCo say thousands have failed to pay new high-income taxes to fund homeless services, universal preschool.
Metro delinquency rate for 2021: ~ 25%.
Neither gov't ever notified those that qualify for the taxes, who now face hefty fines.
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Portland City Council today approved an ordinance to allow the Police Bureau to spend $1.5 million to purchase a new patrol plane for its Air Support Unit.
The aircraft it will replace was built in 1978.
Commissioner Mingus Mapps: "That's the same age as Tom Brady and email."
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"In December, the program announced the expected cost for the project could reach $7.5 billion. Two years prior, the price tag topped out at $4.8 billion."
In 2010, it was $3.6 billion...
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"Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum, said attendance in 2022 was about half of pre-pandemic totals despite two major exhibitions and conservative projections."
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"Police were in a standoff with someone at a Northeast Portland home late into the night Tuesday after they say the suspect carjacked a driver after arming himself with a meat cleaver inside a restaurant."
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“Poop rolls downhill to the river if we don’t go to work.”
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Deadline for this 5-member commission is tomorrow.
So far, only 11 people have applied, per city officials.
By contrast, 270 people applied to serve on the commission tasked to create new council district boundaries.
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Do you believe government should be open and transparent? Consider applying for the Salary Commission that will help determine pay for the City’s elected officials including the Mayor, the City Auditor, and City Councilors.
Deadline: January 31, 2023 at 5 PM.
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Portland police responded to more than 1,300 shootings last year.
How many happened within a quarter mile of your home?
Find out here.
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Despite a change in leadership at the Bureau of Development Services, the city of Portland is sticking with a deal that will allow Zenith Energy to continue running oil trains through the city.
Reporting for the .
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's regularly scheduled meeting w/ Gov. Tina Kotek and MultCo Chair Jessica Vega Pederson will be postponed this week.
The reason?
The mayor was selected to serve on a two-day jury trial.
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Another publisher’s grand pivot-to-video scheme goes down in flames.
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How the Mail Tribune owner’s push to reshape local news cost Medford its daily newspaper, reported by @JeffmanningOre and @janeteastman: oregonlive.com/business/2023/
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Mike Schrunk, the humble public servant who masterfully led the largest district attorney’s office in the state for a record 32 years, died Monday, his family said. He was 80. via
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Reader email today:
"Lol Portland is such a joke of a city, & you’re either aware of that, or delusional. I’m a citizen of Corvallis...
"Just wanted to let you know your town’s a joke, your mayor is a joke, & your constituents are borderline cultists. You’re welcome. - Alex"
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on the 5th day of lunar new year, I share with you a personal essay I wrote for about the bittersweet feelings that is this time of year 🐇
📸 by me on portra 400 film!
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Several months ago, Portland more than doubled its private security contract to $4.6 million annually.
Now it will spend an additional $41,000 a month for a new 3-person "executive protection team" at City Hall who assignment is shrouded in secrecy.
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Things that will get you permanently banned from TriMet.
1) Repeatedly cutting, touching or masturbating into the hair of unsuspecting women riding transit.
2) Chewing off a portion of a 78-year-old's face on a MAX station platform.
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Hundreds of Portland parks and transportation workers are planning to walk off their jobs next week with city leaders and a public employee union at an impasse in contract negotiations.
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"The other candidate looking seriously at the race is Julia Brim-Edwards, a former longtime Nike executive who is a trustee at Pacific University and Oregon State University and is now in her third term on the Portland Public Schools Board."
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Flashback May 2013:
Caleb McGillvary, aka Kai The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker, was supposed to crash on my couch in Brooklyn.
My then-fiancée (now wife) & our housemate put the kibosh on the plan.
The next night, Kai killed a man in New Jersey.
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Van with 4 show dogs stolen from Portland hotel - “I don’t know what we can do, but I want my dogs back.”
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Just your periodic reminder that any promise of adding another 300 cops to the Portland Police Bureau is years away, at a minimum.
Bureau still 80 officers short of current authorized staffing levels.
Avg emergency response time now almost 18 minutes.
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
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Portland has opened only two of its promised six Safe Rest Villages after 18-plus months of work & millions of dollars spent.
Just seven people to date have transitioned from the existing villages to permanent housing.
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For better or worse, this has now been playing in my head all damn day.
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There were more attacks on the region’s electrical grid last year than the previous six years combined. As a string of attacks unfolded across the Northwest, the FBI warned utilities of white supremacists plots to take down the nation’s grid w/@heyjohnryan opb.org/article/2023/0
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"During the initial implementation of M110, OHA awarded $33 million in Access to Care grants. Little to no data was collected by OHA for these awards and auditors were unable to determine the effectiveness of the Access to Care grants."
$33 million.
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This⬇️ is a must-read in / -- and even more tragic given the link between TBI and homelessness. An important solution to homelessness is providing services that help prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place.
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Oregon is a terrible place to suffer a brain injury. It ranks 49th in the number of rehab beds per capita.
But @NigelJaquiss has learned that two of the biggest players in Oregon health care have spent the past four years blocking new beds. wweek.com/news/2023/01/1
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Resch, you may recall, served just over six months as Portland’s police chief between Danielle Outlaw & current Chief Chuck Lovell.
She stepped aside less than two weeks after nightly protests erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
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Jami Resch resigns from @PortlandPolice after serving 23 yrs, rising to chief, relinquishing that job and leaving as deputy chief —— to serve as deputy chief of much smaller Springfield PD under Chief Andy Shearer, who retired from PPB in 2020. kpic.com/news/local/for
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