After the financial impact of COVID-19 closed the Lan Su Chinese Garden’s greenhouse and laid off most of its horticulture staff, Justin Blackwell’s first reaction was panic. “My first…
A day at the Lan Su Chinese Garden
Having received a vaccination, I recently had a “normal” day out of the house for the first time since last March; I have to say, I missed it. As…
Our changing city: Losing Chinatown
Decades of neglect and mismanagement by the city’s government has left Portland’s historic Chinatown district a ghost of its former self. Historically a center for the marginalized Chinese-American community in…