Dialogue

Readers respond to the conditions at an embattled shelter in the Rockwood neighborhood.

Last week, WW examined the state of East Portland’s Gateway neighborhood, which lies east of Interstate 205 and is plagued by crime, homelessness and most recently, the impending closure of the Gateway Fred Meyer.

Last week, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson approved an ethics investigation conducted by an outside law firm, spurred by a revelation in WW.

“This is like an article about baseball in New York that never mentions the Yankees. And I HATE the Yankees!”

"Portland in the ’90s was just a fantastic place for music and art."

“I can’t recall the last time I yanked a WW out of the box so fast then started reading the thing right in front of the box.”

"In my opinion, it is not socialism we should be afraid of, but fascism and a government intent on accruing the most wealth for the very few on the backs of the many millions of the rest of us."

“The last thing we need to do in this crazy culture is revive the red flag language of anti-communists.”

Students were largely supportive of limiting phone use on school grounds but expressed doubts about whether the ban would really improve their academic achievement or mental health. Here’s what our readers had to say:

The debate engrossed our readers for a while, until they detoured down memory lane to recall their own traffic citations.

“If Kotek wants to press this again, she might be facing an early end to her political career.”

Plus: A reader defends Urban Forestry’s regulation team.