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In the early 2000s, playwright August Wilson told his friend, actor and director Jerry Foster, about “Jitney,” a play Wilson had written more than two decades earlier. It follows the owner of an ...

Dancer with chronic spinal condition refused to give up her dream You may recognize her from her silhouette that danced across a dim stage in the Intel Superbowl commercial “Experience Amazing” that ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

Zenith Energy’s fossil fuel storage and transport facility faces criticism for potential environmental dangers, particularly in the event of an earthquake. Portland City Council and a fossil fuel ...

Mandated quarterly reports listing in-custody deaths during 2020, 2021 and the first two quarters of 2022 revealed ODOC, failed to list a cause for 78 of the 123 in-custody deaths, or 63.4%, occurring ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

Continuing efforts to rename lakes, creeks, mountains and other geographical places with offensive and racist names are happening in Oregon, often with help from tribes and Native historians From ...

Buried secrets lie beneath Portland’s Northwest Industrial District. Wander between Northwest St. Helens Road and the Willamette River and you’ll come across asphalt manufacturing, petroleum tank ...

According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating since 1965. And worker organizing has led to unionization of stores at a number of well-known, ...

Oregon is not home to the most contaminated land in North America — that award goes to Washington. But if things go according to plan, Oregonians could see nuclear waste passing through in the years ...

"It’s all about providing the resources. It’s all about income disparity, and it’s about making the decision as a society that we need to help people who can’t manage to participate in the way that ...