‘It’s Like a War Zone’: What Happened When Portland Decriminalized Fentanyl After a failed experiment with legal leniency, Oregon’s liberal stronghold tries to chart a path out of the fentanyl crisis. Can the city find a balance between care and coercion?
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The State of Oregon, Multnomah County, and the City of Portland should each declare a 90-day emergency on fentanyl and establish a command center within the Central City, led by the State, where daily communication, coordination, and triage of the fentanyl crisis will be carried out. The ...
Kotek convened the downtown task force in 2023 to address public safety concerns in the business district and its a slow economic comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic. Later that year,it recommendedmulti-year moratorium on new taxes,a 90-day state of emergency focused on the fe...
Despite the successes, backsliding always has been tough to prevent. With the pandemic and the homeless crisis, the neighborhood’s fortunes have worsened in the past few years. Nye believes Old Town will benefit from the Chinese garden having a larger footprint a...
Idaho Gov. Brad Little reacted after winning a lawsuit against a public encampment outside the Capitol Annex he said had turned into a danger zone.