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"PCEF will invest more than $750 million in projects that will make Portland a safer, healthier, more prosperous place to live."

“What’s the matter with Portland?” That was the question asked in a lengthy and interesting report in The Los Angeles Times.

Instead of rolling their eyes at critics, liberals in Portland, Oregon, should consider how their worldview is leading to misery, not utopia.

 

The Los Angeles Times forgets about its own backyard.

Portland, Ore., long a liberal utopia, faces a crisis of confidence as it grapples with homelessness and crime. Residents can't agree on solutions.

Portland, Ore., long a liberal utopia, faces a crisis of confidence as it grapples with homelessness and crime. Residents can't agree on solutions.

While protesting for racial justice in downtown Portland in summer 2020, Brenna Bell was regularly exposed to both pepper spray and tear gas fired into crowds of demonstrators by law enforcement officers. But one of her most memorable experiences was getting tear-gassed not by a police officer, but by a tree. “I was just standing [near the federal courthouse], without a gas mask or anything, and a wind came, and I was all of the...

A lawsuit in Portland, Oregon alleges that exposure to tear gas during protests was responsible for distressing changes to one woman’s menstrual cycle. Scientists are trying to tease apart the relationship.

by: JD Heyes (Natural News) It’s not everyday that police officers have to be called out in force to guard garbage, and yet that’s exactly what happened in Portland, Ore., last week.  Call it a sign of the crazy times in which we live. According to  The Oregonian, about a dozen of Portland’s finest were called to confront a group of people at a Fred Meyer grocery store in the northeast part of the city after they attempted to take food from dumpsters after it had been thrown away. “Wo...