People in Ukraine are finding unexpected support from around the globe — including Portland’s Slavic community In a thick Russian accent, Mikhail Mitkov-Baklanovsky explains how the round adhesive bandage he’s just pulled from a cardboard box will keep a ...
18 Apr 2015 - Emily Green
Oregon Lottery’s deli-retailers survive another bill while the state gambling agency considers the revival of sports betting Rep. Kathleen Taylor (D-Southeast Portland), following in the footsteps of her predecessor and longtime Oregon Lottery adversary, ...
23 Apr 2015 - Emily Green
Transit police will continue to be allowed to issue harsh “interfering with public transit” charges Despite strong criticism from public defenders and a legislative push for greater leniency, transit police will continue to be allowed to issue harsh “inte ...
1 May 2015 - Emily Green
For Cuban Geovani Rodriguez, freedom means many things Geovani Rodriguez was 21 when he sailed away from Cuba on a homemade raft. He wasn’t afraid of the voyage, he says, even though his younger brother, Herminio, died when he left the island nation on a ...
7 May 2015 - Emily Green
How a gang member from Texas came to lead groups of inner city kids and veterans on fly-fishing adventures Chad Brown stood waist deep in the brisk current of the Clackamas River, just a few hundred yards upstream of the Estacada Bridge. On this temperate ...
14 May 2015 - Emily Green
The Port of Portland wants to change the law so it can keep dumping dredge waste in West Hayden Island’s natural area off Oregon's Columbia River When the City of Portland pulled West Hayden Island from its list of lands to be developed over the next ...
22 May 2015 - Emily Green
Advocates are hoping a bill in Salem will change DHS policies to give foster parents an equal voice in the future of foster children Caleb was only an infant when he was sent to live with Emily and Greg Sisk in 2009. He had seven broken bones and shaken b ...
29 May 2015 - Emily Green
A new approach to helping homeless youths heal Mike Sandell was out of his usual element. He emerged from the backseat of a Champagne-gold Suburban, scanning the terrain. He was in the rolling hills of rural Canby, at a ranch where groves of cottonwood, a ...
5 Jun 2015 - Emily Green
BDSM practitioner Annamarie Stockwell fills us in on one of Portland’s latest titles — ‘kinkiest city in America’ Annamarie Stockwell stands at the front of a room packed with students on Portland Community College’s Sylvania Campus, swinging a single-tai ...
16 Jun 2015 - Emily Green
Climate-change expert Katharine Hayhoe, a scientist and a Christian, is on a mission to change the minds of faith-based climate change deniers Katharine Hayhoe never goes where she’s not invited, and when she accepts an invitation, she usually finds herse ...
19 Jun 2015 - Emily Green