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Portland City Council Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Restrict Violent Protests

The ordinance created a rift between the mayor’s office and local civil rights advocates.

Civil-Rights Advocates Proposed An Alternative To Portland Mayor’s Protest Restrictions

City Council will vote on Mayor Ted Wheeler’s protest ordinance on Nov. 14.

Portland Commissioner-Elect Jo Ann Hardesty Tells Mayor: Protest Restrictions Are Likely to Be Unequally Enforced

“We see how police show up when white women protest and when people of color protest.”

City Council Will Not Vote On Protest Ordinance Today After Mayor Drops Emergency Clause

The emergency clause would have allowed the policy to go into effect immediately after a vote, but that vote would have had to be unanimous.

She Learned the Ropes at One of the Most Corrupt Police Departments in the Country. Now Danielle Outlaw Runs the Portland Police—and She Wants More Power.

Outlaw is a smart, careful, cops’ cop who seems less interested in the kind of police reform her boss Wheeler campaigned on than in taking back control of the city’s streets.

A Dispute Over a “Satanic” Board Game and Perfume Blew Up a Meeting Between City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly and Black Constituents

On the conference room table in Eudaly’s office was what the visitors believed to be a Ouija board. “It was some sort of satanic, demonic game,” says North Portland resident Alicia Byrd.

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Portland City Council Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Restrict Violent Protests

Civil-Rights Advocates Proposed An Alternative To Portland Mayor’s Protest Restrictions

Portland Commissioner-Elect Jo Ann Hardesty Tells Mayor: Protest Restrictions Are Likely to Be Unequally Enforced

City Council Will Not Vote On Protest Ordinance Today After Mayor Drops Emergency Clause

She Learned the Ropes at One of the Most Corrupt Police Departments in the Country. Now Danielle Outlaw Runs the Portland Police—and She Wants More Power.

A Dispute Over a “Satanic” Board Game and Perfume Blew Up a Meeting Between City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly and Black Constituents

Jo Ann Hardesty Is the First Black Woman Elected to Portland City Council

WW’s November 2018 Endorsements For Portland City Hall, Multnomah County and Metro

Baruti Artharee, Former Mayoral Aide at the Center of a Portland City Council Tempest, Responds

Former City Council Candidate Andrea Valderrama Endorses Jo Ann Hardesty

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