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Eight Ways to Get Portlanders Back on the Willamette River
In the interest of getting the most return on one of Portland’s most underused assets, we decided to evaluate some of the projects that dreamers have pitched or built along the Willamette.
Willamette Cove Makes a Perfect Park, Once the Soil Is Removed
After five years of advocate pressure, Metro now says it can clean up Willamette Cove and make it safe even for toddlers to crawl around in the sand and put pebbles in their mouths.
Tiered Gardens Could Celebrate the Return of Black Portlanders to Albina Riverside
The 1803 Fund wants to place a glassed-in observation deck atop the Louis Dreyfus grain elevator.
Animal Rights Groups Say Oversight Board at OHSU Primate Center Has Too Many Internal Employees
Foxes are watching the monkey house, advocates say.
The Solution to Multnomah County’s Struggles With Compulsory Drug Rehab Turned Out to Be in the County Next Door
“What’s attractive about Washington County is that they are getting results. They are getting people through deflection and into treatment.”
Put Your Paddle In at Willamette Falls
Far too few Oregonians have seen the extraordinary falls outside Oregon City. You can do one better and get in the water.
City Shelter Beds Will Shutter Due to Impending Closure of Sunstone Way
Skye Brocker-Knapp, the director of Portland Solutions, wrote to the Portland City Council that up to 134 beds currently operated by Sunstone Way would be closing in the coming months.
Fallout Spreads From Rockwood Tower
The county had planned to fill the gap with another hotel conversion, but a former Days Inn & Suites in Gresham faces financial hurdles to becoming a shelter.
Sunstone Way Workers Discovered Billboard Campaign During Severance Negotiations
“Who thought this was a good idea?”
Troubled Family Shelter in Gresham Goes Into Receivership After Missing Loan Payments
East County Housing LLC got state money to buy the building through a program run by the Oregon Community Foundation.