Downtown Portland’s office vacancy rate is highest in the nation

by Ty Davison | Mar 26, 2024 | News & Commentary

Downtown Portland’s office vacancy rate is highest in the nation, report says – oregonlive.com: Portland’s central city had the highest office vacancy rate of the 50 largest downtown office markets in the country by the end of last year, according to a report by...

Kotek’s wife gets aide, office space as governor considers creating ‘Office of the First Spouse’ • Oregon Capital Chronicle

by Ty Davison | Mar 26, 2024 | News & Commentary

Kotek’s wife gets aide, office space as governor considers creating ‘Office of the First Spouse’ • Oregon Capital Chronicle: Gov. Tina Kotek is hiring a temporary aide to assist her wife, Aimee Kotek Wilson, as the governor considers expanding Kotek...

Debate over Middle East conflict flares as students, some educators stage walkout in Portland

by Ty Davison | Mar 17, 2024 | News & Commentary

Debate over Middle East conflict flares as students, some educators stage walkout in Portland – oregonlive.com: Hundreds of Portland high school students and some of their teachers streamed out of schools Friday afternoon to protest ongoing bloodshed in Gaza,...

Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime

by Ty Davison | Mar 7, 2024 | News & Commentary

Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules – oregonlive.com: An off-duty bartender who ordered a patron not to use the women’s bathroom and shoved the woman when she tried to explain her gender identity...

This is what the fentanyl crisis looks like in a state rethinking its historic drug policy

by Ty Davison | Mar 2, 2024 | News & Commentary

The legislature is mildly re-criminalizing some drug use to the dismay of some progressive groups who seem inured to the increasing tragedy of fentanyl on the streets. Oregon’s saw 280 opioid overdose deaths in 2019, 956 in 2022, and we’re at 628 so far...