Workers at unionized Starbucks locations across the Portland area remain on strike this week and say they will not return to ...

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Lovesky has risen through the ranks of the Wonder since her arrival in Portland during the venue’s inaugural year in 2005.

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Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who’ve repeatedly used excessive force ...

From relative stability in an established community, to being repeatedly swept on the streets of Multnomah County, unhoused ...

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The reason rent is unbearable and homelessness shapes our lives now is because the same small, self-reinforcing circle of elite thinkers has had a monopoly on “serious economic ideas” for forty years.

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