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North Portland’s red house and surrounding neighborhood linger in uneasy limbo after tense standoff OregonLive.com 2/20/2021 © Dave Killen | The Oregonian/OregonLive/oregonlive.com/TNS Scenes from the red house in North Portland. On a recent afternoon, a half-dozen people came and went from the boarded-up red house on North Mississippi Avenue that just two months ago served as the catalyst for an explosive standoff between activists and city leaders. People stayed warm under a tarp jutting from the back of the dilapidated two-story house. A handwritten sign listed chores including “o...

Portland protests shape District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s young tenure: Now what? His decision not to prosecute most protest-related crimes drew fire from President Trump and praise from reformers. What’s happened since. Updated on Feb 02, 2021; Published on Jan 30, 2021 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt on Sat., Jan 15, 2021. Schmidt, 39, campaigned as a reformer and won 77% of the vote. His approach to protest-related arrests has won praise and encountered resistance. “You're not damaging anything, you're not lighting things on fire, then you're not the person we're go...

Black Lives Matter activists in Portland reflect on contrast between Capitol and local police response Updated Jan 14, 2021; Posted Jan 14, 2021 Over 100 people gathered at Portland's South Park Blocks around 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, and marched throughout the downtown area. Mark Graves/Staff Facebook Share tepid response by Capitol police stood in stark contrast to the force used on left-wing protesters in Portland. have deployed tear gas, shot rubber bullets and collectively arrested more than 1,000 people who have protested around the city since the May 25 police killing of Geor...

Portland Mayor Wheeler accosted again at Nob Hill cafe January 07 2021 In another video, someone calls out Mayor Ted Wheeler by his middle name: 'We're never going to forget you Tevis. Ever. I hope you enjoy your little wine.' Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was swatted in the shoulder Wednesday evening, Jan. 6, while out to dinner at a restaurant in the Nob Hill neighborhood, according to the mayor's office. Wheeler was five minutes into a dinner at Cafe Nell with a friend when a small crowd began yelling obscenities at him and soon pushed their way into the outdoor tented area where...

[In an effort to reflect on a very tumultuous year, the Mercury asked several Portlanders to look back on their 2020 and share how their lives have changed and what they've taken away from their experiences. Mac Smiff is a political activist, and the editor of We Out Here Magazine . Here is his 2020 story.—eds] To be fair, I don’t usually put much thought into rolling from one year to the next. A few standard resolutions and some celebratory inebriation is about all of the attention I care to give to the unavoidable annual reset of the Gregorian calendar. 2019 was a particularly precario...