Recalling cancellation and its gleeful proponents, as well as, and with love, the people who get back up and speak up and keep putting good work into…
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Unf**king Portland. Plus: Red MeatListen now | There are Portlanders trying to correct course and/or introduce completely new ideas. It’s worth meeting and listening to these people, the…
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Policies enacted as conflicts burned have led to an unintended rise in crime, homelessness, drug addiction and murder. Has the situation cooled to where…
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: Lisa SchroederListen now (44 min) | "Vandalism is happening through the city. Why?” the Mother's Bistro owner asked in 2022, after her window was broken for the 3rd…
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On a mother's fatal heroin overdose, and a Portland where "accusers, deniers, and enablers contribute to the city's continued and prolonged death."
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With each dose, addicts chop off a little more of their figurative legs until, even if they dream of their legs, they cannot stand. Is this something we…
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: "What's Happening Here?"Listen now (86 min) | Two photographers covering Portland, from the summer of rage 2020 to the current explosion of homelessness and drug addiction, are…
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February 2023

Alarmed by local media's reticence to report, as well as ideological divisions tearing apart his peers, a young journalist decides to leave Portland
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Pie Talk #3: Hoisin ChickenListen now (20 min) | Plus: This week's literati flame wars (Dahl, Rowling, NYT dust-up #whoknows) and what to feed the people who show up at your door
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The article included Amanda’s mug shot. Her forehead was creased with tension, but except for her dark hair in the disarray, she looked . . . How did…
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Substack calls it "Chat."
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Plus: Steve Kornacki Loves America, Hates Vegetables
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