Ryan Haas

Oh good it's time for every news org to write the same article we have been reading for a decade about daylight saving time. The definition of "news."

The Shady Cop Who Haunts Halloweentown A porn-texting police chief, a mayor posting through it all and the Oregon town that can’t let go of the 2024 election.

This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from The Western Edge.

It is!

OPB dropped the ball big time dropping hush. But maybe we're all better off now that The Western Edge is here.

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

quittin' time, sine die edition

helps quite a bit if I'm being honest

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The Shady Cop Who Haunts Halloweentown A porn-texting police chief, a mayor posting through it all and the Oregon town that can’t let go of the 2024 election.

This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social / me and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social

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The Shady Cop Who Haunts Halloweentown A porn-texting police chief, a mayor posting through it all and the Oregon town that can’t let go of the 2024 election.

A romping weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

In the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, where the news media is on life support, corruption thrived.

2,500 pages of new documents have finally revealed the clear story of what happened when Brian Greenway came for Halloweentown.

This story is a great example of the type of work small outlets can do because they aren't chasing clickbait. The attention economy has encouraged journalists for decades to do shallow work, but it's the time-consuming stuff that reveals the truth and holds bad actors accountable.

The Work Isn’t For Everyone Latinos en Spokane blames its disappearing staff on lost funding. 10 former workers point to another cause: toxic leadership.

Publicly, nonprofit Latinos en Spokane is a passionate defender of immigrant and worker rights. Behind the scenes, though, ten workers and contractors interviewed by RANGE described high turnover, toxic working conditions and threats of retaliation:

CNN chats to guest with an ICC arrest warrant on charges including starving children to death

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

We can’t cover everything the AP used to, but also AP coverage of state government here has been sparse for the past decade. The news service shifted focus from serving member papers to surfacing stories for a national/international audience, and local readers paid the cost.

Judge expresses skepticism toward federal force at ICE building, expects to rule soon A federal judge appears poised to continue blocking federal officers from using tear gas and chemical munitions on protesters after days of testimony that revealed a lack of legal guidance and trainin...

"At least eight Department of Homeland Security officers expressed confusion about several key elements at issue in the case, including actions protected under the First Amendment, what constitutes passive resistance, proper crowd control tactics and their agency’s own use of force policies."

NEWS: Gov. Bob Ferguson canceled parole granted to serial rapist Billy Van Court.

Van Court served 40+ yrs. for violent crimes dating back to ‘83. He obtained parole in Feb. 2026 despite fleeing to OR while on parole in ‘25.

Van Court will now stay behind bars.

YouTube video by The Oregonian First Latino person to serve on Portland's Metro Council asked to "say that in English"

Metro Council was about an hour into a work session on Tuesday when the conversation took an unexpected turn.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNmP...

Read more here: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Yes, to some degree. The company has regularly increased rates since these fires, typically under the banner of wildfire mitigation costs, but the connection between these fire lawsuits and a major uptick in prevention costs to customers are easy to make.

A screenshot of a headline that says "Kyron Horman's name surfaces in Epstein files"

Today in clickbait.

PacifiCorp officially owes Oregonians more than $1 billion for 2020 fires A Wednesday court verdict pushed the Warren Buffett-owned utility beyond the remarkable figure.

Ahem, I just want to say @ryanjhaas.bsky.social broke the news in @thewesternedge.bsky.social that PacifiCorp now owes Oregonians $1 billion

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Portland advances antidiscrimination protections for polyamorous families Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

These fires seem remote for many of us now, but for the thousands of people who had their homes destroyed, the slow pace of these court proceedings has kept that devastation fresh in their minds.

Trials in the class action could continue through 2028 if PacifiCorp doesn't settle.

PacifiCorp officially owes Oregonians more than $1 billion for 2020 fires A Tuesday court verdict pushed the Warren Buffet-owned utility beyond the remarkable figure.

Oregon's second largest electric utility, PacifiCorp, passed a notable milestone today: $1 billion owed to people who had their lives destroyed by the 2020 Labor Day wildfires.

hella stoked to tell my favorite corporations the good news

Portland Public Schools faces mid-year cuts due to just-discovered shortages PPS officials already have a million-dollar budget deficit for next year, but they also have more immediate money problems.

In other bad news.

Big Pink owner snags foreclosed downtown building, pushing Portland bets to $125M - Portland Business Journal His total downtown investment has reached $125 million.

The new owner of Big Pink has bought the Five Oak building across the street. That's four contiguous blocks of Downtown Portland that he now owns. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

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