After 79 seasons, the Portland Chamber Orchestra has announced it will close, marking the end of a long chapter in Portland’s classical music scene. Read more here: www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/...

Babe get your glasses, the Oregon Book Awards nominees dropped

I'm honored the compelling stories of my sources -- such as @davidwelton.bsky.social and @bduss.bsky.social -- are being highlighted in this exciting way, in a field of high-octane authors like @leahsottile.bsky.social. Story via @lizzyacker.bsky.social: www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/...

@lmonghughes.bsky.social takes a step back and asks the big questions of Portland's homeless services apparatus in this sweeping piece. @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Great scoop from Alex Z:

Portland has been under a declared housing state of emergency for 10 years and counting.

Portland officials have uncovered $106 million in unspent housing funds that they are shifting into the budgetary process for city lawmakers to consider, the city administrator made in an extraordinary disclosure Friday.

For @oregonian.com and @propublica.org: The average worker at suppliers that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers I spoke with in Indonesia, Nike’s second-largest production hub, said they made that much. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Council President Jamie Dunphy tells @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social that Jonas Biery, the city’s chief financial officer, informed him Friday night that PHB had “millions” of additional dollars within a housing investment fund that remained unbudgeted. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Federal officers at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility fired a tear gas canister that shattered the window of a nearby apartment during Saturday’s protest. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

This is beat reporting. @matthewkish.bsky.social of @oregonian.com went to Indonesia to understand Nike's claim about oversees suppliers: that it pays the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. Here's what he found: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

A journalist wrote in 1873, "When one sees the load which every book has to bear of expense before [breaking even], one is tempted to say—Go back, poor little book, into the brain of your author, and venture not into this groaning world.'' —Michael Castleman, "The Untold Story of Books"

As my wife and I drove to Southern Oregon, I pulled over along the highway (safely) to make this image of the sun beginning to set on the faraway mountains:

Oregon’s population grew at one of the slowest rates in the country last year, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Oregon had just begun to reap the benefits of leaps in energy efficiency and imagine a future where little or none of its electricity came from fossil fuels. Then came data centers, and extreme weather. Now the state faces a new energy crisis. @rogoway.bsky.social reports in the first of a series:

I work with a phenomenal team of journalists. Check our coverage of tonight's protests below:

Portland mayor, council president call for peaceful protests in wake of fatal Minneapolis shooting www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows via @apnews.com www.oregonlive.com/nation/2026/...

Washington County faces mounting legal costs in discrimination case it lost via @noellecrombie.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital via @gosiawoz.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Do you rent (or do you have friend who rents) on Burnside Street in Portland? I'd like to chat with you (or said friend) for a story, preferably by the end of the month. Please shoot me an email -- [email protected] -- to set up a time to talk. Thanks! @oregonian.com

2025 was the third-hottest year in Oregon in records that date back to 1895. This year’s heat wasn’t as obvious — coming at night and in spring, late fall and early winter (hence the crap snowpack). It was also dry, but not that wildfire-y. Full story: tinyurl.com/dauh9e64

The new numbers mirror the slim margins of growth Oregon continues to experience following the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend reflected in out-of-state residents turning in their driver’s licenses for Oregon IDs, private-sector moving surveys and census data. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

With affordable housing hard to find in the Bend area — and many areas across the state — Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort and the Campfire Hotel have teamed together in recent years to house some seasonal workers from one of the region's top employers.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 The Oregonian/OregonLive is hiring a reporter through @reportforamerica.bsky.social to cover the business and culture of women’s sports in Portland. Come cover the Thorns, WNBA and more in the Rose City. 🌹 #BAONPDX

Enjoyed making the images that accompanied this piece on the James Beard Public Market, reported by Michael Russell and me in @oregonian.com. Unique lighting

Portland needs more housing. Will the mayor’s new plan work? w/ @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

With opening delayed to 2027, James Beard Public Market carries weight of Portland’s civic hopes w/ Michael Russell www.oregonlive.com/dining/2026/...

Central Oregonians describe hope and grief along Whychus Canyon, where efforts to fight the Flat fire and protect homes intensely focused over the weekend. @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Smoke from central Oregon’s rapidly spreading Flat fire has made the air “unhealthy” to breathe and the worst in the state, according to a state air quality index map, as firefighters try to contain the blaze northeast of Sisters. @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Promised housing vouchers abruptly canceled for a dozen Portland-area families www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Developers are sketching out plans for three mid-rise, mixed-use buildings along the Willamette River. h/t @saraedwards.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

It’s actually a complete dream come true to finally be able to share this job post. I love working at the Mercury and will love it even more when I have another person writing the news with me!! So please apply and/or send to your qualified and cool journalist friends.

The Sports and Biz desk crossover episode yesterday was wild @freemanjoe.bsky.social @matthewkish.bsky.social @billoram.bsky.social @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2025...

This is -- *checks watch* -- tomorrow evening. See you there, bookish Portland friends! 📚🏠

Two major small business support organizations in Oregon have lost federal grant funding.

Bend commission calls for emergency meeting over Juneteenth funding www.opb.org/article/2025...

‘We’re sounding the alarm’: Oregon’s farms and land-use advocates square off over farmstand rules @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

This Oregon factory is building the walking, working robots of the future

Multnomah County and the city are weighing options to keep patrons and passersby safe.

99 Ranch in the city LETS GOOOOOOOO www.oregonlive.com/retail/2025/...

Onlookers for years speculated how Portland's office nosedive would affect revenues for governments within Multnomah County. The reckoning is here. @oregonian.com gift link: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Dominos are beginning to fall. The sale of trophy Portland office properties like Big Pink and Montgomery Park will hasten the tax losses for local governments as bargain-basement prices get baked into valuations. @jonathanmbach.bsky.social reports:

I spent the last few weeks hanging around the Gateway Shopping Center, talking to small biz owners, neighbors & historians about what it means for the community to lose a bustling economic hub -- and how they want City Hall to (finally) show up for East Portland.

Anyone checked in on the yammi [the Yamhill Pub] lately?

The Outdoor Afro social group found community while birdwatching in Portland's Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge.

Jesse Lee Calhoun was charged last year with killing three other women.

Attn: #SWPortland! Don't miss this chance to catch the "High Desert, Higher Costs" book event with Jonathan Bach at #AnnieBloom'sBooks, Thursday, August 14, at 7:00 pm!

Southwest Portlanders welcomed the Ole Bolle troll two years ago.

I bought the first "Morisaki Bookshop" early this year and, thanks to its breezy style and tight character focus, ripped through it. More "Days" ahead!