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Portland Clean Energy Initiative
Local effort seeks to be an inclusive model that can inspire other cities to follow suit.
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This article is the second installment of a two-part series on The Green New Deal and the Portland Clean Energy Initiative, the first article…
The Green New Deal Isn’t New
Exploring the history of the latest effort for radical climate change focused infrastructural reform.
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Trump vs environment / climate change policy Last March, President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland….
Mandatory Media Education
Can we equip ourselves to consume information responsibly?
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In today’s interesting era of technology, the average person spends four hours on their phone a day out of the 15 hours the average…
The Street Truth: What It Means to be Homeless in Portland
Panel discusses research and personal experience on houselessness in Portland
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The City Club of Portland (CCP) recognized that some of the citizens of Portland have either experienced houselessness themselves or know someone who has….
The Necessity of Late-Term Abortions
byLate-term abortion: let’s talk about it. Abortion in general is something that the public has been fighting over since 1973—a result of the supreme…
Should CPSO Carry Guns
ASPSU Presidential Election: Gibson wants officers to carry guns, Leslie-Christy wants officers to have access to them.
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Additional reporting by Margo Craig The two Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU) presidential candidates, Kyle Leslie-Christy and Violet Gibson, had a debate…
Arsham Parsi and the Importance of Community
Still Fighting for Stonewall: An ongoing look at LGBTQ activism around the world
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The Stonewall Inn was run by a mafia outfit that notoriously watered down drinks, shortcut proper sanitation practices, blackmailed wealthy patrons, and bribed police…
A Safe City in a Sanctuary State?
The steps and stumbles toward protecting immigrant rights in Portland
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In March 2017, nearly two months after the Trump administration took control of the federal government, the city of Portland passed resolution 37277 to…
Contextualizing Boghossian
The conversation about the hoax articles requires more context
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In anything, the truth is much harder to find than we think. If we talk about photography, even news photos, the photo shouldn’t necessarily…
A Place Called Home: From Vanport to Albina
Vanport Mosaic's event lets Black Portlanders tell their experience in their own words
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Additional reporting by Margo Craig Vanport Mosaic is a community-driven non-profit working to “amplify, collect, honor, preserve and present the many silenced histories of…