Homeless Voices For Justice holds a vigil before the meeting: Monday, November 18 was an eventful night for Portland’s city hall, with officials hearing hours of testimony from the cit... Read more
One of the reasons so many people across the nation say “water is life” is because without it life itself could not exist. In the city of Portland the publicly released water rep... Read more
By: Lizzy Handschy, Co-Executive Director Portland Overdose Prevention Society On Monday, July 15th over one thousand people gathered for the state’s first-ever Opioid Response Summit. For m... Read more
By Kelly Merrill Some of the issues I work on as an activist and journalist need to be unpacked before the messaging is clear to me. Sometimes there’s a big learning curve between those of u... Read more
By Kelly Merrill Twenty-two people were arrested on June 22nd at a protest calling for the conversion of Bath Iron Works from a weapons manufacturing facility into one that builds sustainabl... Read more
By Zack Barowitz One thing that everyone can agree upon is that the Oxford Street Emergency Shelter is overcrowded and inadequate for both people experiencing homelessness and the neighborho... Read more
The Portland Phoenix made an excellent selection with their “Tweet of the Week,” for the Feb. 28, 2019 issue. In it, Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and staff writer for Grist, tweets: There... Read more
by Adam Marletta Trump is afraid of the socialist movement. He should be. A scourge is haunting the Trump White House: The scourge of communism. How else to explain Donald Trump’s recent (an... Read more
Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid prog... Read more
We Need Public Funding for Cultured Meat Research
By Jon Hochschartner Jon Hochschartner is the author of a number of books about animal-rights history. He thin...