Brianna Wheeler

“You have kids who are taking one pill and dying,” says Emily Green of The Lund Report.

“We thought that these four lawsuits that we filed this week really showcased the problem of what it’s like to be a Black person in Portland, Oregon,” Jason Kafoury says.

“You don’t want to make someone decide whether they’re going to plead guilty, on a murder, thinking that the trial is controlled by supernatural beings.”

“I have friends who live in Alabama and Texas and Tennessee. And they text me all the time and say, ‘How are you raising your kids there?’ Because it’s all they see in the news.”

Some debtors are sympathetic. Others, less so.

This week’s podcast guest is a lifelong Portlander on a quest to make sure we all have the tools to look out for each other.

Regardless of how seriously I love Portland, I can’t deny that this has become an incredibly hard place to live.