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Updated: June 6 This page will be updated as new candidates file for election. Thanks to a charter reform measure passed by voters in 2022, Portland is getting a new form of government, and it will come with a brand new districting system. In November 2024, Portlanders will vote for City Council members in one of four districts across the city, with three councilors per district. Here's who's running in District 4, which includes all...

""The meth is crystalline and this chunk power is the fentanyl."" Welcome to Portland, Oregon, the US city that decriminalised drugs and nearly immediately regretted it.

Welcome to Portland, Oregon, the US city that decriminalised drugs and nearly immediately regretted it.

Lykins is trying to redefine — and re-invigorate — what it means to be a Portland progressive.

After three years in which its streets became a hellscape of open drug use, rocketing fatal overdoses and rampant crime, Oregon has learnt a painful lesson.

Eva shares her favorite places to ride and Jonathan shares his anxieties about interviewing a cop

When police officer Eli Arnold stops a homeless man smoking methamphetamine on the street in Portland, he simply writes him a ticket with a $100 fine.When she was last arrested, she says, a police officer shouted at her and lectured her. 

Portland led the way relaxing narcotics laws in a tide that swept America - then quickly bitterly regretted it. And now even addicts are begging for drugs to be made illegal.

Portland is the biggest city in a state where voters decided by a comfortable majority in November 2020 to become the first in the U.S. to decriminalise the possession of personal amounts of all hard drugs.

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