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Everybody Eats Started on the Outer Eastside and Now It’s Here Bringing Chicken and Waffles and Seafood Mac ’n’ Cheese to the Heart of the Pearl District Everybody Eats co-owner Marcell Goss. iMAGE: Chris Nesseth. Updated 12:12 PM A few months back, this story would have started with a firm suggestion to mask up, take advantage of the relatively light pandemic traffic, and journey out to Southeast Powell and 172nd, where Johnny Huff Jr. and Marcell Goss of Everybody Eats had turned their catering company into a food stand, dishing out fish baskets, chicken and waffles, and seafood mac ‘n’ cheese at the Oriental Food Value supermarket.
Feds Halt Houston Freeway Widening Project, and May Pause More nextcity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nextcity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
West Linn protests cop on leave from Oregon training agency March 10 2021
Mike Stradley has been on leave from his supervisor role at the state agency for over a year.
Mike Stradley, a former West Linn Police Department lieutenant, has been on leave for more than a year while his current employer the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training investigates his role in the 2017 false arrest of Michael Fesser. In that time, DPSST has paid him $131,844.91 in salary and benefits, according to the agency s human resources department.
In 2017, West Linn police concocted a plan to arrest Fesser, a Black Portland man, on theft charges as a favor to a friend of then-police Chief Terry Timeus. Timeus friend, Eric Benson, was Fesser s boss and feared he would sue him and his towing company over the racial harassment he faced at work.
Oregon once legally banned Black people. Has the state reconciled its racist past?
Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.
Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton Davis are artists and activists who have made it their mission to preserve and celebrate African American history in Portland. Here, their daughter, Ifetayo Davis, stands with her father and sisters outside their home.Photograph by Diana Markosian, National Geographic
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On most weekends during the warm months, you’re likely to find Zachary Stocks in buckskin pants and a linen shirt guiding visitors around Fort Clatsop, a replica of the encampment where American explorers Lewis and Clark holed up during the bitter winter of 1805. But on one chilly morning last fall, Stocks was bundled in a fleece jacket, his dreadlocks pulled into a ponytail, and a mask covered his face protecting against both COVID and the wildfire s
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