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The Latest Victim of a Portland Police Shooting Was a Familiar Face to Outreach Workers Visiting Lents Park “His kindness transcended everything about him.” Friends and family mourn Robert Delgado at an April 23 vigil in Lents Park. (Brian Burk) Updated April 28 Shortly before 10 am on April 16, Portland police officers arrived at Lents Park in response to a 911 call about a man quick-drawing a gun amid the spring greenery. The cops found Robert Delgado, who was holding what turned out to be a replica handgun, near the tent where he’d spent the night. Police issued commands to Delgado, who flipped them off in response, according to police radio transmissions.
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Here’s a populist slogan for President Biden’s infrastructure plan: Pee for Free!
Sure, we need investments to rebuild bridges, highways and, yes, electrical grids, but perhaps America’s most disgraceful infrastructure failing is its lack of public toilets.
The humourist Art Buchwald once recounted an increasingly desperate search for a toilet in Manhattan. He was turned down at an office building, a bookstore and a hotel, so he finally rushed into a bar and asked for a drink.
“What kind of drink?” the bartender replied.
“Who cares?” Buchwald answered. “Where’s the men’s room?”
Nicholas Kristof: America is not made for anatomically correct people
America’s most disgraceful infrastructure failing is its lack of public toilets.
(Jan Buchczik | The New York Times) Sure, we need investments to rebuild bridges, highways and, yes, electrical grids, but perhaps America s most disgraceful infrastructure failing is its lack of public toilets. As Biden pushes for an infrastructure package, let s fix our scandalous lack of public restrooms, write The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
By Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times
| March 9, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
Portland, Ore. • Here’s a populist slogan for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan: Pee for Free!
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Portland Street Response finally launching to address mental health, homeless calls
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
Josh Westside and Ashlee Daley stand outside of Westside s RV as their dogs play together in the snow in Lents.
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Along Southeast Foster Road in Portland’s Lents neighborhood, a community of individuals experiencing homelessness camp along the road in their cars and RVs each night. Within their makeshift community, they have agreed to take care of each other and follow a set of understood rules: don’t let anyone sleep through cold nights without heat, give neighbors in need your extra handwarmers, don’t let women walk alone at night and share your cigarettes.