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Stumptown Savings' Mission Just Got Bigger: How We're Meeting the Moment In response to the looming SNAP crisis, Stumptown Savings is offering free Savers Club memberships to anyone who needs one. Here’s the story behind this decision, and how we can face this moment together.

In response to the looming SNAP crisis, Stumptown Savings is offering free Savers Club memberships to anyone who needs one. Here’s the story behind this decision, and how we can face this moment together.

Amid funding questions, I-5 bridge replacement project head to leave - Portland Business Journal Johnson’s departure comes at a difficult time for the project expected to cost upwards of $6 billion.

NEW: The leader of the project to replace the I-5 bridge connecting Oregon and Washington will leave his post at the end of the year.

His departure comes at a time when federal funding for the $6B project is still in limbo.

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A red excavator demolishing a building behind a chain link fence.

KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is continuing to work on the entitlement process for its Lloyd Center redevelopment plan.

Investors on an earnings call this morning said the entitlement process should wrap up in the first half of 2026.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

THERE ARE NO COMPETING NARRATIVES. PORTLAND IS SAFE, CRIME IS DOWN.

THAT IS A FACT. ANY OTHER "NARRATIVES" SHOULD BE DESCRIBED AS WHAT THEY ARE: LIES.

Street Roots pushes to complete emergency funding campaign - Portland Business Journal If the nonprofit’s goal is not met, it may have to reduce the hours at the vendor's office or even move from a weekly paper to a monthly one, said Interim Development Director Kodee Zarnke.

🚨 @streetroots.bsky.social is pushing to complete an emergency fundraising effort.

And while it won’t shut down if the funding is not met by Tuesday, it will complicate how the nonprofit fundraises for the rest of the year.

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The City of #Portland said the South Waterfront ICE facility violated its land use agreement by holding detainees longer than allowed and boarding up building windows.

The city said the facility has violated its agreement over a dozen times in a 10-month period.
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TJA urges caution in reporting on details of Charlie Kirk shooting investigation Various outlets have reported that authorities have found ammunition engraved with expressions of “transgender and antifascist ideology” alongside a weapon purportedly associated with the killing of C...

"It should also be noted that 'transgender ideology' is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging to falsely equate identity with politics, which is a way to frame transgender identity as a political choice rather than an innate identity." www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

Six-year mystery of missing woman in Philippines ends with guilty plea in Oregon "You did not just kill her. You erased her," brother says, confronting man who killed his sister and hid her body.

Six-year mystery of missing woman in Philippines ends with guilty plea in Oregon

@oregonian.com

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70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men.

His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

What I want to know is how will Gannett/editors know the reporter used AI? Will the reporter have to disclose how much of the article is AI? Will the LLM generate a report on how much it was used each week?

I have so many questions about how this would work.

Plans to redevelop the Centennial Mills site appear to be moving forward with a design review hearing scheduled for mid-September.

Redevelopment of the site would include three mixed-use buildings and an extension of the riverfront greenway trail. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

It's always fun to see the look on someone's face when they learn Texas has a pledge that we say right after the Pledge of Allegiance.

I remember my first day of second grade in Texas after moving back from Arizona and getting SCREAMED at by my teacher for not knowing the Texas pledge.

FPF’s Top 10 most urgent FOIA requests Why these disclosures would help fight threats to the press, help fight expanding surveillance, and more

🧵 Over the past six months, @freedom.press filed 100+ FOIA requests to uncover how the Trump administration is targeting journalists and stifling dissent.

FOIA is the public’s best way to force government transparency – so we’ll keep using it.

Here are our 10 most urgent requests:

ICE detained a teen with disabilities outside a Los Angeles school "The trauma will linger."

On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a Los Angeles Unified School District high school.

This is likely just one example of what's to come. Blog from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ventured back down to #Milwaukie this week around six months after I wrote my story about the city's #redevelopment boom.

Multiple new small businesses had opened and new developments were starting to take shape. Always love being able to get out of the office.

The government that has killed more journalists than all other countries combined over the last few years shouldn’t be lecturing a newspaper about anything — let alone an obviously true story.

A photo of a grocery aisle end with different brands of instant noodle brands.

99 Ranch Market will open its first #Portland location on Aug. 16. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

In 2013, the Obama administration introduced a goal for federal contractors to work towards having 7 percent disabled employees.

Now, as I reported for @motherjones.com, the Trump administration is working to undo this.

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NJ reporters face unconstitutional charges for refusing to unpublish news There’s no First Amendment exception for expunged arrest records, and any state law that says otherwise violates the Constitution

Our statement on the ridiculous and unconstitutional charges against two NJ journalists for declining to unpublish news, as first reported by @pressfreedomtracker.us

The thing is people desperately need and clamor for news, and they’re very confused and angry when it’s missing, while failing absolutely to put two and two together

BREAKING: Big Pink has been sold.
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Arguing Over Portland's Best (and Worst) Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables - City Cast Portland Countless varieties of fruits and vegetables are hitting farmers markets and grocery stores over the next few months, bu...

I hopped on City Cast #Portland this morning to talk summer produce: What's good, what's overrated, and why you should be OK with skipping the fruits and veggies you don't like.

I have some thoughts on eggplant.

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The White Shield Center in Northwest Portland has hit the market. The urban campus was purchased by the Portland Japanese Garden in 2022.
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BREAKING: The Portland Timbers announced it will expand its Beaverton training facility with a $25 million purchase of 13 acres nearby. The move will triple the facility's size to 90,000 square feet.

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