New low-power FM stations will soon become part of Portland’s media landscape, representing a different set of voices from commercial and public radio. Among the applicants are student-run radio ...

Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War all too well. In 1977 his first child was born with a number of birth defects ...

Know Your City, a Portland nonprofit that celebrates Portland’s history and culture, has created a new box set of mini-comics about local heroes. “Comics for Change! Illustrated Stories from Oregon’s ...

Ariel Gore is as raw and honest in her writing as she is in her life, earning her the moniker of the hippest mama around. But the backstory is a long way from Ozzie and Harriet. Gore, spurred by a ...

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On the desk in Juliet Follansbee’s downtown Portland office is a thick book of Oregon laws. It contains only a few sentences that grant the state agency she operates tremendous power over the lives of ...

Justice reinvestment programs help keep people out of prison, so why are legislators starving the funds? Carole Hinojosa didn’t expect a second chance. She grew up in a drug house in deep Southeast ...

Each day Sean Morgan wakes up just as the light of morning creeps into view — a habit he picked up from years of working as a concrete finisher. He turns on his stove, boils water in a teakettle and ...