Honor and a privilege to publish my top 10 with the Mercury. Support local film criticism and read!

Biked to see a movie at Lloyd Center and the ticket guy told me someone stole the bike parking. Like ripped it up out of the ground.

Merry Christmas to everyone (except trolley fans) Lake Oswego is trying to redevelop the Foothills District again — but isn't considering extending street car service That's what killed the last planning effort in 2013 There will be a big opportunity once the old sewage treatment plant is demo'd

Portland Fire fans, Nik is your go-to for WNBA coverage this year! Proud to call him a colleague and friend who understands the importance of covering women’s sports in a clear-eyed and meaningful way. He’s shown it time and again over the years on the #opreps beat. Follow him!

Professional update: After primarily covering high school sports in Oregon over the last decade, your boy is moving to covering the @portlandfire.bsky.social for the @oregonian.com. Very excited to get to cover a brand new @wnba.com franchise in a city that is feral over women's sports.

It's 2045. You approach the Gen Alpha bouncer with a Paw Patrol/Punisher tattoo. They take a dismissive glance at your BeReal "Shouldn't you be home watching video essays about the Cartoon Sponge?" You begin to weep, your reply barely audible over the bass beat: they used to sell duvets here

Not everything in Oregon is getting pricier. Here’s what got more expensive in 2025 and what didn't, from @aimeegreen.bsky.social

Family members are still waiting for Matt Aldridge’s body to be recovered.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

When I left OPB after more than 5 years in 2021, I was barely making $50K. A fellow nonprofit more than doubled my salary.

Agreements with the U.S. Marshals can be lucrative for local jails. Columbia County, for instance, billed the federal law enforcement agency roughly $2.5 million in transport and boarding fees in the first nine months of this year

UPDATE: I've heard back from the OSAA, which included that Anderson and Eckard filed the lawsuit despite explicitly leaving their medals behind at the podium. Executive Director Peter Weber said the OSAA was looking forward to presenting evidence that proved the claims were false #opreps

coworker: everything is collapsing me, reframing: isn't a collapse just another way of coming together

reading this, but in the cadence of the last stanza of "funeral blues" by Auden

On this day 175 years ago, the first edition of The Oregonian hit the streets of Portland. If all had gone to plan, the newspaper would have celebrated its 175th anniversary last month. But when its printing press never arrived, Dryer suspected sabotage! www.oregonlive.com/history/2025...

Legal precedent is the backbone of the law, the judge wrote. But artificial intelligence is a machine built on the probable order of words, not the truth itself.

The U.S. ties rents in regulated-affordable apartments to average income. So when avg incomes rise, rents in subsidized buildings do too. Portland's rental vacancy rate has been 8% for 2 years. That's kept market rents flat. Combine those: an affordable home is barely cheaper than a market one.

If you don't know the true scope of a problem, it's impossible to fix. Vital reporting by (bluesky exile) Jonathan Bach www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

PSU has been tearing down its older housing, and is already contributing to downtown's vibrant culture of "fenced off lot where something used to be." That said... would prospective students choose vintage features over better WiFi and actual amenity spaces where you can play Super Smash Bros.?

The Oregonian celebrates a big milestone this week. The institution predates most others in Oregon — not to mention the state itself

Hacienda CDC's affordable housing project Los Colibris will likely be the first building going in the new OMSI district. Living in the shadow of the Marquam Bridge is... not ideal, but the designers did a nice job creating a semi-public courtyard while still retaining access to ODOT's parking lot

A loss for one of Portland's most prominent law firms: "Gresham defeats $3M suit over claims of lackluster police response to knife-wielding neighbor" www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

2 cottage clusters are going in right across the street from each other in LO's First Edition. Units priced as low as $899,000 -- so not exactly cheap -- but probably easy to sell in Lake Oswego's most walkable neighborhood lakeoswegoreview.com/2025/10/23/f...

Portland Public Schools has declined to forecast school enrollment impacts of a key policy proposal past 2031. The Oregonian ran projections. Here's what we found: www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Joseph Brausen, 12, was pedaling on the sidewalk of Southeast 10th Avenue in Hillsboro when he was fatally struck by a driver last year. He was on his way to a park. His parents have filed a $2M suit against 2 businesses on that street and local governments www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrants or invade people’s privacy.

A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrants

Community Supported Shelters is housing Eugene residents in its Conestoga Huts.

Act I, Victor Frankenstein: I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created. Act II, Frankenstein's monster: My maker told his tale and I tell mine Act III, Henry Clerval: You'll never believe it but like a third of the original text is devoted to ME—Victor's best friend Clerval.

This leaves Intel with a little more than 16,000 Oregon workers, fewer than at any point since 2012.

Definitely an improvement over what was there before -- though it sure would be nice if this was magically facing the Park Blocks rather than 10th Also the portal statue looks... generic. You can see a similar piece at the Tacoma/Johnson MAX stop, among other places

Two former editors at The Nib, Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris, have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting.

A Multnomah County grand jury declined to indict three Portland police officers in the death of a 52-year-old man who died after officers held him on his stomach while he was suffering a mental health crisis. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

UPDATE: A Texas military contractor rescinded its offer to lease land at the Newport Municipal Airport, city officials announced tonight. But Newport believes ICE is still working to build a detention center somewhere on the Oregon Coast. Details here: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Public job postings for “detention officers” based in Newport, a request for septic tank services and a bid to lease 4 acres at the airport all suggest ICE is planning to build a detention facility

State and federal lawmakers say they’ve been kept in the dark about a possible ICE facility Newport, but emerging clues point to the project’s potential scale. From THE @zane.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

A Texas company known for setting up military housing is looking to lease land at Newport’s city-owned airport Officials believe the project is a new ICE base “What I’m hearing from our constituents is that they’re very concerned about people being fearful in this community,” Newport's mayor said

Tom Collins receives about $280 a month in SNAP benefits. “If SNAP went away, it would be very inconvenient,” he said. “I would have to fight at food pantries for food. And it would be a fight, because there’s a lot of people dependent on SNAP.”

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

Victor Cruz-Gamez received work authorization from one arm of Homeland Security, while another seeks to deport him. He was arrested in a case of mistaken identity. www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

Damn... this one is rough.

The best type of terrace amenity is when it's on a vacant floor that you're not allowed to use so it remains, tauntingly, forever out of reach

A real rollercoaster of a story here:

BREAKING news for typeface fans Sources exclusively confirm to me that @oregonian.com has changed its web headline font to Noto Serif (top image). We salute Farnham (bottom image) for its years of noble service

At the South Portland ICE facility, after pushing back the crowd to let some vehicles leave, agents gassed the street for approximately 10 minutes solid. S Bancroft was opaque with gas; agents also threw flash grenades and shot pepper bullets.

TODAY IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

‘Dew’ process lets Portland suspect resolve case with one Baja Blast soda