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
Woman Assaulted and Another Followed in West End Police are investigating two incidents that occurred an hour apart and within a few blocks of each other in Portland’s West End neighborhood.... Read more
By Dr. Oren Gersten Insurance is a card in your pocket, health care is a relationship with a doctor you know and trust. This is a recurrent mantra for doctors across the country who have bro... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Just Thinking Out Loud By Rosanne Graef Months B.C. (Before Covid-19), the City of Portland hired a University of New Hampshire team to determ... 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 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 Mary Alice Scott You’ve probably heard it before. Buying something from a locally-owned, independent business instead of a chain puts 3.5x more money back into our local economy! It’s an... Read more
Andrew Zarro & VivaKeeping the culture alive Every Month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a community member for The West End News. This month Liz caught up with Viva, the band l... 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