CLIMATE JUSTICE FEATURE Toxic Fumes in the West End By Espahbad Dodd The air smells like petroleum or burning rubber. Is this toxic stench safe to breathe? That’s what people in South Portla... Read more
By Dr. Oren Gersten Part of the job of any primary care doctor is staying up to date on the latest medical research. There are numerous medical journals each publishing a range of research t... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life What a Pile of Trash! By Rosanne Graef By the time you read this, the 2020 elections will finally be history. But much of the physical detritu... Read more
Perspectives from the Sky November 2020 Major Transformation Begins By Leo Knighton Tallarico We are now moving into the last portion of 2020. And what a year it has been. We have been throw... Read more
The Portland Palate Dining Al Fresco in a New World By James Fereira As a food writer, it’s been hard to know what and how to write about eating out during a pandemic. We try all the angles... Read more
By Tony Zeli Updated 10/23/2020 Voters have mostly made up their minds in 2020, right? Two national polls of voters in September showed only 3% of likely voters were undecided in the Preside... Read more
By Tony Zeli If you ask any given city manager, what is the value of our city’s urban trees, the answer you might receive goes something like: If we had to replace all our City trees,... Read more
By Tony Zeli Portland voters will decide on six local ballot question measures this November. Five of six questions are being raised by People First Portland, a local volunteer-based progres... Read more
By Tony Zeli More people are requesting absentee ballots than ever before. In fact, the city clerk in Portland handles up to 600 absentee ballot requests per day. Meanwhile, national headlin... Read more
The Banality of Segregation: Why Zoning Matters
Reader Opinion By Zack Barowitz Until recently, there has not been much conversation about how land policy is used as an instrument of white supremacy nor the violence and economic harm that... Read more