Story is now updated with additional comments from PSU president Ann Cudd.

In an interview with OPB, she said the university supports free speech from its students and faculty, but would not tolerate intimidation to take place at demonstrations.

To fund journalism, a lot of our industry's brightest minds spend a lot of time trying to measure the 'impact' of our stories.

But sometimes a single comment makes everything feel worth it. All of the episodes of Lost Patients are now out. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/los…

Records confirm a narrative out of Gov. Kotek's office that my colleagues have followed for weeks: That ethical questions around the first lady's power splintered Kotek's office:

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The last decade of crowd policing has not been particularly lawful or orderly. Send in the riot squad, dramatically inflame and escalate the situation, perform extraordinarily dubious arrests and uses of force, eat a several million dollar settlement a bit later, repeat.

Apropos of nothing:

At this week's council hearing on public camping, commissioners asked how it would impact a protest encampment (like 2011's Occupy Portland). City atty said it wouldn't apply.

But he added that the city is currently 'not equipped for an Occupy event.'

Just had explosive interaction w/ Columbia University’s heightened security coming onto campus. They followed me to my office & then lied, saying I didn’t scan my ID for entry (I did) & I pushed an officer (I didn’t). An ugly scene followed. They did this to me, a tenured, full professor.

“We have a year under our belt,” Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said. “We haven’t completely established trust with the state. But I think we’re making progress.”

A year after first visit to nitrate polluted region, Kotek faces more calls for urgency.
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New documents obtained by OPB show Ex-Yakima cop Elias Huizar was investigated multiple times for sex abuse allegations related to the women he had children with later ... and eventually was accused of killing.
Troy Brynelson & Conrad Wilson report.

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This is a weird looking baseball stadium.

Sigh.

This feels like the election of Portland candidates of various stripes inventing reality and hoping no one asks a follow up question.

Portland city council rejected Cm Gonzalez's camping proposal last night, advancing Mayor Wheeler's plan to regulate camping on public property. opb.org/article/2024/0…

The head of Oregon's state police is on administrative leave after shooting at a suspect in an Amber alert case.

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The head of Oregon's state police is on administrative leave after shooting at an Amber alert suspect.

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Elon's bots have found an old tweet of mine and are AGGRESSIVELY retweeting it.

Wonderful website. 10/10

College basketball star Kianna Hamilton, citizen of the #OsageNation , finishes out her last season of college ball on the University Of Portland women’s basketball team and looks to her new role as director of basketball operations for the Portland Pilots
#Ndnsports
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What's it look like to advocate for people who use drugs in a part of Oregon where such people are routinely villainized and pushed to the fringes? It's not easy work. opb.org/article/2024/0…