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The Habits We Picked Up After a year in isolation, hobbies turn to habits, and the longer this goes on, the more permanent they become. Lucky Devil Strip Thru (Wesley Lapointe) Updated December 23, 2020 First, it was puzzles. Then it was baking. And then…it got weird. At the start of quarantine, the hobbies we picked up to pass the time were just that: innocent pastimes. But after a year in isolation, hobbies turn to habits, and the longer this goes on, the more permanent they become. Here are four that, in one way or another, have reshaped Portland at large.
Kinney family says they are working toward resolution for ‘Red House’ in Friday press conference
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Matriarch Julie Metcalf Kinney and
her two
sons William X. Nietzche and Michael Kinney said they’ve been in talks with Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office every day this week as they work to hire an attorney to help them navigate negotiations over the home. Michael Kinney said the family has found a lawyer and is finalizing a retainer to hire that person.
Protesters have gathered at the Kinneys’ North Portland property since September to try to prevent the family from being forced out of the home relatives had owned for more than half a century before it was sold in a 2018 foreclosure auction. Hundreds of supporters turned out after sheriff’s deputies arrived Dec. 8 to remove the family. Advocates built barricades around the house and surrounding streets. Protesters dismantled the barricades earlier this week as part of a tentative agreement
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PBOT launches $11M pedestrian project in East Portland December 16 2020
The East Portland Access to Employment and Education project calls for construction of new sidewalks, street crossings, bike lanes and more.
The city transportation agency plans to spend at least $11 million building out amenities for bikers, walkers and schoolchildren in East Portland.
Despite the late-autumn drizzle, Portland Bureau of Transportation crews have begun work on a series of projects dubbed the East Portland Access to Employment and Education plan, paid for by federal funds and local dollars. Some of our eastside streets are just too dangerous, said transportation planner Shane Valle. Long stretches of road between traffic signals means people go too fast, making it unsafe, sometimes even deadly, just to cross the street.
Fifty-one people have been killed in Portland traffic so far in 2020. With two weeks left in the year, 2020 has eclipsed the 50 traffic fatalities in 2019. Last year s figure was the deadliest year on Portland streets since 1996, when there were 59 traffic deaths, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. The high number of 2019 deaths prompted hand-wringing at City Hall and a pledge to redouble multimillion-dollar efforts to reduce traffic deaths. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic cutting car travel by 20% to 30% for much of the spring and summer, 2020 was worse. The most recent traffic fatalities occurred Saturday, Dec. 12, when both a driver and passenger of a vehicle died after another car T-boned them near the Wilkes neighborhood, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The driver was arrested after initially fleeing the scene.