One loose end from the contest: Brown filed a public records request for all correspondence from Vasquez mentioning her, including communications with reporters.
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2026/05/26/bad-blood-lingers-after-sitting-circuit-judge-ousted/
Two people who were hired to gather signatures for a Portland ballot initiative that would use clean energy funds to hire police say they were trained to mislead the public about the proposal. If true, the conduct would violate state elections rules, and could spell trouble for the petitioners and the company hired to lead the signature-gathering campaign.
#PDX #portland #portlandpolice #portlandPoliceBureau #ppb #ppa #corruption #fieldworks #USpol #orPol #classwar #pcef #Oregon #PortlandOregon
Two people who were hired to gather signatures for a Portland ballot initiative that would use clean energy funds to hire police say they were trained to mislead the public about the proposal. If true, the conduct would violate state elections rules, and could spell trouble for the petitioners and the company hired to lead […]
Representative Maxine Dexter has a lot of questions. Why were all of the pregnant, unaccompanied minors in the US rounded up and sent to San Benito, a tiny town on the Texas border with Mexico? Are they given appropriate medical care, given their high-risk conditions and Texas’s abortion ban? And most importantly: where are the girls – and their infants – now?
Dexter, a Democratic congresswoman from Oregon and a former critical care physician – one of the few doctors now serving in Congress – detailed these questions in an 8 May letter to refugee and health officials after visiting the San Benito facility and, she said, being blocked from speaking with any of the children. She still hasn’t gotten answers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/pregnant-minors-texas-ice-facility
#SanBenito #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #MaxineDexter #ORPol #PDXPol
(all the more reason, #TinaKotek, to quit regressive taxing of energy use, and start taxing the road interface: #tires)
"…the mixtures were far more toxic than the original #tirechemicals themselves and are far more toxic than the one compound previously implicated in environmental studies," says York Uni Associate Prof Ali Abdul-Sater…focusing on a single compound may substantially underestimate…risks associated with tire-derived air pollution."
A new study published today reports that chemicals released from vehicle tires can transform in the atmosphere into complex mixtures that may pose previously unrecognized risks to human respiratory health.
In addition to prohibiting all police from wearing facial coverings and requiring them to have visible identification, the legislation—which Kanal began crafting last September—also instructs city police officers to verify the identity of other law enforcement officers if it’s unclear whether someone is a sworn agent or what agency they work for. The new ordinance also requires local police to document those encounters, as a tool for logging how frequently other law enforcement agencies aren’t cooperating with local rules, and to track where other agencies are operating.
#pdx #Portland #oregon #orpol #uspol #ice #maga #fascism #ppb #ppa #portlandpolice
When federal immigration agents started showing up for duty last year in plain clothes with their faces half covered, it stoked fear in immigrants. It also sparked concerns about accountability and transparency within the broader community. Still, an ordinance aimed at requiring police to display agency ID and keep their faces visible at all times […]
The commissioner was also unsuccessful in his request to remove a reference to a Portland Mercury column that disclosed how Gonzalez tagged a member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer in a Twitter post thanking supporters after his race for City Council in 2022.
#pdx #portland #orpol #reneGonzalez #patriotprayer #fascism #Maga #newsArchives
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#Portland if you haven't voted, today's the last day. Living in these times I think it's pretty obvious why electing better judges is one of the best things you can do to improve your community.
My picks for the 4th district circuit court:
- Behre
- Perini-Abbott
- Brown
- Hagedorn
I think these picks are all significantly better than their opponents.
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