New journalism job open in Salem! You'd supervise a stellar team of reporters and share a downtown newsroom with my four-person team. www.journalismjobs.com/1693093-mana...

ICYMI, @weareravenous.com launched this week, and I went long on chef Telly Justice working with restaurants around the country to offer pay-what-you-can dining, showing how it's possible to be a for-profit restaurant and give away food for free. www.weareravenous.com/pay-what-you...

it's been a few hours since i've bugged anyone about this, but it's the first day of @weareravenous.com and we'd love it if you stopped by, read some of our work, and of course, become a paid subscriber

What a bittersweet way to start the day. So grateful to have worked alongside the unbelievably talented people at Portland Monthly.

Ravenous officially launches TOMORROW. Get your subscription today!! www.weareravenous.com

we’re trying to fix it!!! but we need your help! subscribe to @weareravenous.com for the incredible food stories but also for the smug satisfaction of knowing you’re sticking it to corporate food media

This Oregon winter was tied for the warmest in records that date back to the 1890s and produced the smallest amount of snow ever recorded. So what will that mean for summer? Spent a lot of time on that last week looking at impact on: water, wildfire, wildlife, forest health tinyurl.com/584sd6vw

Did y’all know that shellfish allergies are the most common adult-onset food allergy, and 60 percent of people with shellfish allergies developed them in adulthood? Ask me how I know! 🫠

Sur La Table is reentering Oregon with a store at Bridgeport Village (where they previously had a store until their 2020 bankruptcy) www.bridgeport-village.com/opening-soon I remain convinced they should be recruited back to central Portland as well, perhaps near the James Beard Public Market.

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

I don’t even have words for this.

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

"Fugardi said that male supremacist beliefs are often overlooked in media coverage. 'There is a degree to which misogyny is not considered extremism...It is just like a normal baseline. … Sometimes that blinds us, maybe, to seeing the radicalization pathways.'" by @leahsottile.bsky.social

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Our ordinance funds policies and programs that work. 🏠Rent assistance 🏠Eviction prevention 🏠Downpayment assistance for tenants 🏠Affordable housing construction 🏠Rent buy-downs

Welp, I am no longer the editor in chief of Portland Monthly. Hour Media has acquired SagaCity, and several editorial employees have been laid off. I feel so, so proud of the work we’ve done over the last (almost) two years—please continue to support the super talented people who are still there.

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I think, if hell exists for me, it will be me perpetually trying to clean out my Outlook inbox and somehow only watching the number of unread emails grow, which seems to be on the agenda this afternoon.

No photo has better captured my mental state. (From a photo essay on the last days of the Lloyd Center by Michael Raines.) www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do. With @oregonian.com

Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.

You can read the full text of the bill here: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for these slides and the alt text, which you can also share on their insta: www.instagram.com/authorsagain...

I ultimately have such a soft spot in my heart for a combination Chinese restaurant and dive bar; this place also had some of the most confusingly-vibed karaoke I’ve ever encountered. Devastated by this news.

The closest Portland has come to snow all season and it turns into rain…

To “remove writing from reporters’ workloads” is to remove reporters’ critical engagement with a topic. The writing is an inextricable part of the process. It’s hard. It takes time. That’s the point! There are no shortcuts for writing and reporting, and AI can hardly approximate it. Stop doing this.

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:

Related:

News of the pallet of cash comes two days after the City Council voted to open an investigation into $21 million previously found through an audit. The release of public records and oversight hearings are expected later this month and in early March.

I’ve seen the GoFundMe for @postguild.bsky.social employees impacted by layoffs circulating, but a recently laid off pal mentioned that the GoFundMe for international correspondents and employees could use some love: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NEW: Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules. Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.

as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.

A big group stopped outside the ICE facility and federal agents dropped several rounds of chemical ammunitions. The crowd leaving the scene was the most chaotic I’ve ever seen it and the gas was the most intense. I don’t know how/why the gassing started.

“In a really end-of-the-world way, it goes back to Nazi Paris in the 1940s. Having to serve officers? Fuck that.” www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drin...

Portland, please continue to show up. We cannot accept this blatant disregard for life, justice, and order from our federal government. Show up how only you can. We will share information when we have it.

"... workers at the park suspect that Aramark’s motives behind the new housing policy are a means of making it easier to replace longtime, permanent employees with temporary workers who are paid less and provided with less adequate, more crowded housing arrangements."

It's nice to have an institution like Harvard highlight the need for journalism that sticks to the core ethics and interrogation of power central to the best reporting. Sadly, OPB chose to cancel Hush -- a huge disappointment from an institution I spent more than a decade helping build up.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Richmond, VA widened bus stop spacing to nearly 1300 feet a few years ago as part of a redesign we did. Des Moines and Louisville are doing the same as part of projects of ours rolling out soon. Bigger cities -- where the benefits of respacing are even greater -- should study these examples.

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

concentration camps.

The separation is one of dozens happening in Oregon, with ICE detaining both parents or single parents, leaving small children in the care of relatives, family friends, babysitters and in the foster care system.

My lukewarm take is that even if she *were* cheating, she didn’t deserve to be doxxed. I think many people justify treating cheaters—particularly “the other woman”—like Bad Actors, as if they’re, say, a sexual predator. They are humans making unkind interpersonal choices. Get some perspective.

Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled. www.wired.com/story/phone-...

24 hours after my first read and I’m *still* annoyed by the David Sedaris dog story.

"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."