A change of record may be coming for the family of a man killed by Portland police in the 1940s. After a Street Roots investigation into the 1945 Portland police homicide of Ervin Jones Sr. and the intergenerational impacts on his family, the Multnomah Co ...
5 Oct 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
The Portland Community College Bond Measure, David Douglas School District Bond Measure and a Parkrose School District 5-year Operating Levy will be on this year's ballot. Read more about them: Measure 26-224 Portland Community College Bond Measure A ...
5 Oct 2022 - Melanie Henshaw and Piper McDaniel
Democrat Andrea Salinas faces Republican Mike Erickson to represent Oregon’s newest congressional district Oregon ’ s 6th Congressional District Oregon’s 6th U.S. Congressional District is Oregon’s newest congressional district and represents a region of ...
28 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Polling for the race shows Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Jamie McLeod-Skinner are in a highly competitive race for Oregon's newly redistricted 5th Congressional District Oregon's 5th Congressional District Since the last U.S. Congressional election in ...
28 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Cheri Helt and Christina Stephenson vie for the nonpartisan Commissioner of Labor and Industries seat, a role that oversees all programs of the Bureau of Labor and Industries The Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industries, or labor commissioner, is a non ...
21 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Measures 111, 112, 113 and 114 propose changes to the Oregon Constitution, a permit-to-purchase system for purchasing firearms and more Oregon Measure 111: Amendment to add health care as a right for all in state constitution Ballot Measure 111 would add ...
21 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel and Mia Ryder-Marks and Melanie Henshaw
Exploring themes of connection and disruption through art and sculpture This is the second installation in a series of profiles and Q&As with Indigenous artists with roots in, or connections to, the Pacific Northwest. Brenda Mallory is an artist, scul ...
31 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
NAYA, which already maintains three affordable development projects in the Cully neighborhood, plans to begin construction on a new project in the Portsmouth neighborhood next year As rents continue to skyrocket, increasing numbers of renters across the U ...
31 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Lehuauakea, kapa maker and cultural practitioner, finds community in both the Northwest and Hawai'i This is the first installation in a series of profiles and Q&As with Indigenous artists with roots in, or connections to, the Pacific Northwest. B ...
16 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
In Oregon and across Turtle Island, colonizing powers rewrite Indigenous history, sanitizing the atrocities of genocide and erasing enduring Indigenous presence and joy The massive lake known in English as Crater Lake attracts visitors from all over the w ...
9 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw