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Members of the Oregon Legislative BIPOC Caucus slammed proposed city budget changes that they say will result in “a net loss in the volume of community engagement” from residents of color and non-English speakers. In a letter to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan Ryan, caucus members questioned why the city’s Office of Community and Civic Life found it necessary to cut more than $500,000 from their Diversity and Civic Leadership funding.

A human rights research group estimates that in some parts of downtown Portland on June 2, 2020, the tear gas concentration was more than 2,200 times the safe limit.

The former Portland mayor joined current Mayor Ted Wheeler's staff about two years ago. He resigned Tuesday, citing health challenges.

The city of Portland is poised to officially rejoin the Rose Quarter Interstate 5 project after walking away in 2020 due to a lack of trust in the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) partnership. While the Portland City Council’s trust in ODOT has not been fully restored, the city is leveraging its essential participation in the project to add restorative justice values to the freeway design, which originally displaced Portland’s Black community. “The Black community...

Experts pointed out local officials' adoption of anti-police narratives, a police staffing crisis and a failure to prosecute many criminal cases.