Earlier this summer, Elliott Young, a history professor at Lewis & Clark College, started a petition addressed to Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioners Chloe Eudaly, Nick Fish, Amanda Fritz…
Cop watcher arrested for stalking, videotaping police chief
Eli Richey, an associate of Portland Copwatch—a local organization dedicated to recording police activity to provide evidence of misconduct—spent Tuesday night, Aug. 28, and most of the following day in…
Events Sept. 4-10
Tuesday 9/4 Crafts Free Craft Night Nectar Frozen Yogurt Lounge 5 p.m. Free It’s still summer and frozen yogurt sounds good. Have some while learning basic origami. Supplies and…
Hill to Hall, Aug. 21–27
Aug. 21: Senator calls for Wheeler’s resignation over Occupy ICE PDX Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Tuesday introduced a resolution in response to the Occupy ICE protests that broke out…
Crime Blotter Aug. 20–25
Aug. 20 Theft Smith Memorial Student Union—Littman Gallery At 4:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of multiple labels being stolen off of art exhibits. CPSO later received another report…
Portlanders rally in support of national prison strike
Prison inmates across the United States began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, Aug. 21, demanding improvements to living conditions, greater access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the abolition of penal…
Holgate Manor tenants wage rent strike in face of looming no-cause evictions
On Aug. 1, 14 tenants of Holgate Manor—an apartment community that housed many people on low and fixed incomes, refugees and immigrants for nearly 40 years—voted for a rent strike,…
Hill to Hall Aug 13 – Aug 21
Aug 20 – Video reveals Antifa attacked American flag-wielding counterprotester In a video recorded and released by Mike Bivins, a freelance journalist and Portland local, members of the anti-fascist group…
Policy and personality loom over City Council candidate forum
Race Talks, Opportunities for Dialogue, a monthly series discussing topics associated with race and ethnicity in Oregon, held a forum for city council candidates Loretta Smith and JoAnn Hardesty on…
Portland rally leads to several injuries, four arrests
A rally held in Portland by alt-right groups Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys ended in a brief bout of mayhem on Saturday, Aug. 4 as the Portland Police Bureau turned…
PSU violates public school students’ privacy
A Portland State Graduate School of Education project brought unexpected controversy after graduate student Ezra Whitman complained that the project was illegal and likely violated the Family Educational Rights and…