Amid Anxiety About School Shootings, Nine Portland Schools Ordered Unneeded Lockdowns in the Past 13 Months

When a school goes into lockdown by mistake, students and teachers believe it’s real.

Neighborhood Watches Have Gone Out of Fashion. Portland City Hall Aims to Remodel Them.

Mingus Mapps Used to Work in Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s Bureau. Now He Aims to Unseat Her.

“Clearly, one of the things that we don’t have right now is an evidence-based commissioner and a commissioner who will listen.”

Former Political Science Professor Mingus Mapps to Challenge City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly

Mapps is a believer in Portland’s neighborhood associations. He previously worked for the Office of Community and Civic Life.