a Critical weekend
Though a deal was reached to remove federal law enforcement officers from Portland more than a week ago, many of them are still here. Law enforcement officials tell OPB that federal officers could start to decrease their forces if the delicate peace holds for the next several days.
While demonstrations against racism and police violence have continued in downtown Portland for more than two months there are a variety of other groups coming out to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
global pandemic
Oregon passed 20,000 COVID-19 infections Thursday, and the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus keeps growing. Meanwhile, navigating the "new normal" continues to raise questions for how to live in pandemic times.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to stall air travel, airports are continuing with their terminal expansions.
Multnomah County's Community Task Force has made its recommendation for a replacement long span bridge — a liftable bridge in the same location and length as the existing Burnside Bridge.
Lawmakers are quietly circulating three proposals meant to help unemployed Oregonians.
As controversial monuments and statues are coming down across the U.S., in Portland, a new set of statues went up, if only for a few hours. The project used actors covered head-to-toe in gold paint to depict recent Trump Administration actions in a satirical light. It’s called the Trump Statue Initiative and was conceived by director and activist Bryan Buckley.
Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon's timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing so.
The U.S. Census Bureau is ending its count efforts a month earlier than expected. We talk with Esperanza Tervalon-Garrett, the campaign manager for We Count Oregon, about what these changes could mean for Oregon.
