Night challenges

Mystery vein

Too many regrets

Victor misses

The fight of

My soul as I lunge

Toward the edge

Of temptations

Compromise,  explosive,

The meaning of everything,

Is dying, the natural order

Implying why he carried

This betrayal within his

Mind, still, troubling them

By the refusal attentions  rope

Tightens around chances divination

Kicking off, static

Is sizzling

Photo:Ben Tyler aka Small Skies performing at Holocene Portland April 2026

Why Are There 2 Portlands in the USA 🇺🇸 Oregon vs Maine 🤯

https://tube.blueben.net/w/msCzvE7DZLegapMD85Yd2D

If you don't think the mayor should shift voter-passed climate funds to the Moda Center, you need to submit a comment

Talking points: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-0pJqtT2pV8VyXQ_Wk1tiMlVxsizrAbxOheJrG_ej0/edit?tab=t.0

https://www.portland.gov/budget/comment-and-testimony to testify

#PDX #PortlandOR #PortlandOregon

Meanwhile, in #PortlandOregon...

As It Shutters, Beleaguered Shelter Operator Says All 175 Staff Will Lose Their Jobs

By Andrew Schwartz
April 10, 2026

Excerpt: "Late last month, WW reported that two homeless shelters funded by the city Portland would close after the nonprofit contracted to run them shuttered amid allegations of fiscal mismanagement.

"In a WARN notice posted publicly this week, that nonprofit, Sunstone Way, indicated the scale of the impact for its own staff: By the end of June, all 175 of them would lose their jobs.

"In the notice, Sunstone Way HR said it had 'anticipated the city of Portland would continue operating the shelters that Sunstone Way currently operates.'

"Instead, it said, it had just received notice from the city to the contrary. The 96-bed Centennial shelter that Sunstone Way had operated was now expected to close by April 30. A 38-unit pod shelter complex on Northeast Weidler Street in the Lloyd District would close altogether.

"Meanwhile, the letter added, Sunstone Way’s Naito shelter would, after June 30, continue to operate with new management.

"The resulting layoffs encompass a range of vocations. According to the notice filed with the state, workers losing their jobs include a mix of full-time, part-time and on-call shelter staff as well as case managers, office workers, and 41 people in management.

"Sunstone Way’s troubles date back years, WW has reported, and the nonprofit had been losing shelter contracts lately with both the city and Multnomah County. But its problems escalated rapidly in the period before it said it would shutter entirely. "

Read more:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2026/04/10/as-it-shutters-beleaguered-shelter-operator-says-all-175-staff-will-lose-their-jobs/

cc: @newsbot @bob

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Fair Stand The Fields of France shows booked

My experimental noise Rock/Post Rock band Fair Stand The Fields of France has 2 shows booked in Portland. May 27th @No Fun Bar and June 4th at Portland State University

Random God shot

I was walking down

The street, headed home on

The beat, wondering and contemplating

If music is where to go

And then, tom morello, in the flesh

Walks by with a most random

Coincidence, this incidence

Tells me