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Portland is feeling the effects of a years-long law enforcement crisis involving “defund the police” narratives, “unprecedented” police staffing struggles and flawed policymaking, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Meanwhile, the liberal city has set an all-time record for homicides in 2022.

Transportation commissioners come and go, but policies to free up curb space remain perpetually stuck at City Hall.

The red wave isn't coming for the city, but all signs point to a restless electorate looking for a new direction.

Dozens of Portlanders gathered in North Portland's Overlook neighborhood Monday morning to decry a sweeping rent hike for low-income tenants at a city-subsidized apartment complex. "The rents are too high across this city," said one rally-goer named Anthony. "If we show up for one, we show up for all." The group gathered at the corner of N Interstate Ave. and N Prescott St. to advocate for tenants living at the nearby Prescott apartment complex. In...

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! Let's dive right in. In local news: • Dozens of Portlanders protested sweeping rent hikes at an affordable housing complex subsidized by the city in North Portland Monday. Former...

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! Let's dive right in. In local news: • Dozens of Portlanders protested sweeping rent hikes at an affordable housing complex subsidized by the city in North Portland Monday. Former...

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The city of Portland is poised to officially rejoin the Rose Quarter Interstate 5 project after walking away in 2020 due to a lack of trust in the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) partnership. While the Portland City Council’s trust in ODOT has not been fully restored, the city is leveraging its essential participation in the project to add restorative justice values to the freeway design, which originally displaced Portland’s Black community. “The Black commu...

The Portland City Council approved a $5.6 billion annual city budget Wednesday morning, including a 3 percent decrease to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) budget from last year's total. It's the first time the police budget has been decreased—not inflated—in years. The decision comes in the midst of a local and national uprising against police brutality, one that encouraged City Council to tack on $15 million in last-minute cuts to the initially proposed PPB budget....

John Elwood "Bud" Clark, who served as Portland's mayor from 1985 to 1992, died on February 1 from congestive heart failure.