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91% of Portland protest arrests not being prosecuted January 05 2021 Protesters are 'emboldened,' coalition leader says, despite tough talk from Portland officials including Mayor Ted Wheeler. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has vowed to crack down on "antifa anarchists" after a riot on New Year's Eve, but months of catch-and-release policing has skeptics wondering if anything will change. "Right now there's a lot of people that are emboldened to just do whatever they want," Gabe Johnson, co-founder of the Coalition to Save Portland, told KOIN 6 News. Johnson feels city and county off...

For more than four months, Springfield has been without a mayor — ever since longtime mayor Christine Lundberg abruptly resigned in August. Council President Joe Pishioneri took on acting mayoral duties, but a new mayor will be appointed sometime in January 2021. The person stepping into the largely ceremonial role can set a political vision for the city as it deals with big issues and experiences a change in demographics.  The city charter prohibits a special election to replace Lundberg, so the next mayor could be one of two councilors: Ward 4’s Leonard Stoehr, who was elected to counc...

• Everyone danced as best they could around COVID-19, but the wretched 2020 college football season is mercifully wrapping up. And the University of Oregon — the only Pac-12 school that refused to give the number of COVID positives in its athletic department to The New York Times — finds itself in the middle of a virus-driven mess that the Pac-12 Conference has become. The Ducks did not win the North Division title. That belongs to the University of Washington by virtue of a higher winning percentage. Yet the Ducks will play for the Pac-12 championship on Dec. 18 because Washington pu...

Credit Elizabeth Gabriel / KLCC News The City of Springfield held a virtual public forum Thursday evening for community members to share their experience at a Black Lives Matter protest in late July. Most participants spoke against the Springfield Police Department's actions. As part of external investigator Rick Braziel’s research, he listened to 33 community members provide three-minute statements in response to SPD officers hitting, tasing, and dragging Black Unity protesters on July 29 in the Thurston neighborhood. And about one-third of the responders said SPD handled the situation cor...