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Your Feelings Materially Change Nothing, and Yay For That
The tired impotency of police abolitionists, the delusion that "political problems are solved with affective impulses," and activists yell "Fuck Ted…
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A Portland Mother Drops Her Children Off A Bridge. How Does This Happen?
Fourteen years ago today, Amanda Stott-Smith determined her two young children should die by falling 90 feet into the Willamette River. I set out to…
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Dispatch from Portland: The Fire Starters, 2020-2021
With the exception of a blubbery young man who yelled from a curb across from Justice Center, "I'll shave your shit right off your fucking [head]" and…
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The Reality Portland Does Not Want to See
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: Coffee With A Cop
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: Unbridgeable
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Dispatch from Portland: The Fire Starters, 2020-2021
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The Collateralists
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The Story That Will Not Let Go
When the subjects who once derided the book you wrote about a murder start looking to you for answers
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: The Deadly Consequences of Living Without Consequence
A special needs student is kidnapped and terrorized and Portland's system of justice shrugs. How long will the city keep falling for the upside-down…
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Pie Talk #11: Fettuccine Alfredo
Watch now (14 min) | Brooklyn Heights in the '70s: Boarding houses, gay bars, Paula Fox, and pasta
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Crime Dispatch #1: "Society is Just Very Uncomfortable Addressing Domestic Violence"
Watch now (43 min) | Crime reporters Tana Ganeva and Nancy Rommelmann talk the murders of women in Portland and NYC, the challenges/failings of…
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: The Death Eaters
Cue the burning buildings, the metric tons of broken glass, the people hounded from their homes, the mayor hounded from his condo, a celebration of…
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: Coffee With A Cop
The Portland police union president on what it's been like to police the city since 2020. "All of a sudden your name is mud and you're being questioned…
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: The Builders, the Breakers, the Fixers
Greetings from the air, somewhere west of Salt Lake City and en route to Portland, Oregon. I lived in Portland from 2004 to 2019, a period - or most of…
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