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16 Great Options For Portland Dining Month

Portland Dining Month is back, with restaurants across town featuring special menus for $33 each. For some, it’s just about the same as visiting at any other time of the year. But for certain places it’s a great deal, offering normally pricey items at a more affordable level, or offering something fun and exciting that isn’t normally available.

With over a hundred options, it’s impossible to get to them all, so we’ve narrowed it down to the sixteen best deals. Participating restaurants are often crowded, especially at some of the more high-end spots, so reservations should be made when possible.

As always, the points on this map are organized geographically and not ranked.

Occasionally overlooked due to the constantly evolving restaurant scene in the city, Papa Haydn is a Portland dining staple. Dining Month offers a great opportunity to revisit either location, as well as the west side’s Jo Bar, each of which are offering a different menu. Of course, each menu does finish with a choice of the restaurant group’s famous cakes.

A local institution, Paley’s Place is serving a butter lettuce caesar to start, followed by braised pork shoulder with chickpea panisse, and finished with a coconut cream vacherin to finish. Portland Dining Month provides a great opportunity to visit this classic restaurant without breaking the bank.

Vitaly Paley’s Headwaters serves some of the best seafood in the city, and Dining Month is no exception. Seafood entrees here are normally in the $30 range as is, so the octopus carpaccio and crème caramel courses just serve as a bonus to the entree of seared albacore tuna with charred carrot broth, yuzu aioli, and pickled vegetables.

Unless you’re going in for happy hour, it’s hard to escape Little Bird without spending upwards of $50, or more if you get wine. That is, unless it’s Portland Dining Month, when you get two options for each of the three courses, including an entree that alone is normally priced around the $30 mark. It’s a great opportunity to try out one of the city’s most lauded bistros.

There’s no dessert course at Olympia Oyster Bar — instead, the restaurant has opted for three courses of seafood goodness. The Dining Month menu starts with a half-dozen oysters prepared three ways. The second course is a ceviche, and the main is a “bucket of shellfish”, with mussels, clams, and caramelized shallots. It’s worth grabbing a bottle to share of a crisp white wine for a romantic, affordable dinner.

John Harris’ Ecliptic Brewing is offering a fantastic deal: $33 gets diners a choice between three appetizers (deviled eggs, broiled oysters, or confit chicken legs), any burger or sandwich off the menu, a pint of beer, and ice cream to finish. Plus, guests will be able to take home a $10 gift certificate, making it essentially only $23 for anyone wishing to return.

Ken Forkish’s Trifecta Tavern is serving up a hearty three-course dinner for Portland Dining Month, with the wood-fired touch the restaurant is known for. It opens with a wedge salad, moves to a wood oven baked pork cassoulet, and finishes with a hot fudge sundae. It’s best to start the meal with one of the fantastic wood-fired cocktails.

The Feastly event space is offering a variety of dinners with guest chefs, almost one a night. One stand-out option is the Breton Coastal Feast, a semi-regular pop-up celebrating coastal and Celtic French food. $33 is the cheapest the event has been, and it runs on March 10 and 11. Other dinners include Cameron Dunlap’s (La Moule) pop-up Origin Wild on March 20, and the Portland Mercado is hosting a series of dinners, all of which should be exciting.

While most menus feature a dessert course, not everyone has a sweet-tooth. That’s why it’s nice to have some options for a three-course dinner that don’t include a sweet finish, like the one at Buckman Public House, which features a baked oyster to start, a tostada with octopus, and a pork cutlet with fried rice and shrimp ravigote. Better yet: there’s a $15 wine or beer pairing option.

Sarah Pliner’s Aviary is going all out for Portland Dining Month, offering two options for each course, with both seafood and beef dishes, such as shrimp toast with lemon anchovy aioli or oxtail cannelloni to start, butter-poached salmon and hoisin-glazed beef short rib with a turnip cake and bacon for the entrees, and a choice between chocolate terrine or green tea mousse for dessert.

A unique restaurant with a unique Dining Month menu, Yakuza is offering a couple of choices throughout the experience. A choice of salads kicks the meal off, followed by a choice of sushi rolls (one of which is vegetarian), and the entree is an option between a Yakuza hamburger or a bowl of mushroom ramen.

Basque pintxos restaurant Urdaneta is offering some of its larger dishes for Dining Month, with two options for each of the three courses, including some that aren’t on the regular menu. And while it’s not offering a huge discount from the normal menu, there is the optional wine pairing for just $15, which makes for the perfect night out at under $50 a person.

One of the city’s best steakhouses, Laurelhurst Market is more of a special occasion splurge restaurant than a regular weekday night out. Luckily, Portland Dining Month offers diners an opportunity to try it without stressing about the bill. This year sees a rapini and chickpea salad, ten hour braised beef with gnocchi alla romana, and a dulce de leche semifreddo to finish.

One of the city’s best new Thai restaurants, the Michelin recognized Farmhouse Kitchen is pricier than the average mom and pop pad thai spot. Farmhouse is serving four courses, with a soup to start, a choice of appetizers, choice of entree, and homemade soft serve for dessert, an incredible deal for just $33.

Xico is offering some special dishes this year, including a chicken taquito in consommé, a grilled verde chorizo sausage with sweet potato puree and corn tortillas, and an exciting dessert course: a banana split, a collaboration with Salt & Straw and Woodblock Chocolate, with Mexican fernet chocolate ice cream. There’s also a vegan option, a rarity during the Portland Dining Month.

Heartland-inspired restaurant The Country Cat is always a good deal, but especially so during Portland Dining Month. The menu for 2018 is simple and rich: oysters rockefeller to start, followed by braised pork spare ribs, and finished with olive oil cake with lemon cream. The ridiculously affordable glasses of wine here just help to make this a great destination.

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Prosper Portland wants to take local threads and laces companies down under – Portland Business Journal

Prosper Portland is now accepting applications from Oregon consumer products companies who want to take their business down under.

The business development organization’s athletic and outdoor group is seeking footwear, apparel, accessories and other consumer products companies to participate in a "trade mission" to Australia in September. Prosper Portland will select five companies from Portland and five from elsewhere in Oregon.

The trade mission coincides with a trip coordinated by the state to bring Oregon food companies to the Fine Food Australia show in Melbourne. Companies selected for the Prosper Portland trip will have the option to attend the food show: Companies from both trips will participate in a joint media event and trade show sponsored by Prosper Portland, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Business Oregon, Travel Oregon and Travel Portland.

The Prosper Portland trip participants will then travel to Sydney for prearranged meetings with potential retailers and distributors.

"I had reached out to companies that were interested in international trade to find out which markets they were most interested in," said Sue Bal, who heads up Prosper Portland’s athletic and outdoor group. "Australia kept coming up. So when the state announced they were putting together this thing for food companies, we thought it would be nice to put together a trip for consumer products companies, too, since they’d expressed interest in Australia already."

Bal said the U.S. Commercial Services office in Sydney will help select the winning companies, which will be judged based on their products’ potential for success in the Australian market. Prosper Portland identified leisure and sporting brands, fashion and luxury apparel brands and resort wear as those that typically sell well in Australia. Priority will be given to companies owned by women or people of color.

The companies selected to attend the trade mission can apply for Export Promotion Program grants from Business Oregon, which would cover half of the trade mission costs — like setting up the trade show display — as well as some travel and accommodation costs.

Prosper Portland has coordinated a number of trade missions and trips to trade shows abroad in the past, including apparel and outdoor group events in Japan and Germany.

"Part of our mission is to encourage the growth of small business," said Anne Mangan, senior communications coordinator at Prosper Portland. "(This trip) is in alignment with our commitment to small businesses. Within our strategic goals, outreach to expand markets is called out as a way to help our local companies access new markets in a way that they might not be able to do under their own power."

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Climber falls, several stranded on Mount Hood in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. — Rescuers scrambled to Oregon’s tallest peak Tuesday to respond to two separate rescue situations on Mount Hood, according to information posted online by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

The sheriff’s office wrote one group of four were stranded by the Hogsback area with one injury. Another climber fell and is injured. Crews are "working feverishly" to reach the climbers.

To clarify: We are dealing with two separate rescue situations:

SITUATION 1: 1 group of 4 stranded by Hogsback; 1 injured.

SITUATION 2: Another climber fell on Hogsback, is injured. Other climbers currently rendering aid.

SAR working feverishly to get crews to the climbers.

— Clackamas Sheriff (@ClackCoSheriff) February 13, 2018

Russell Gubele of Mountain Wave Search and Rescue said it’s unclear how far the climber fell, with reports varying from several hundred feet to 1,000 feet.

Video from a helicopter on the scene showed people performing CPR on the injured climber, who’s believed to be a man in his 30s, CBS affiliate KOIN-TV reports.

The stranded climbers were on the Hogsback area near the summit of the 11,240-foot mountain about 60 miles east of Portland.

"I don’t know that any advice has been given (to them) yet," Gubele said. "We have to get some folks on the scene to do some assessing."

Mount Hood is a popular climbing site that has seen dozens of accidents and fatalities over the years. Thousands climb it each year, mostly in the spring.

The peak is notorious for loose ice and rocks in warm weather. The sun has been out this week, and the temperature was well above freezing Tuesday at Timberline Lodge. The temperature was right around freezing at the spot where the climber fell, Gubele said.

"This is the kind of weather conditions and the time of year where you often get falling ice, falling rocks and problems," Gubele said. "It sounds like the conditions up there are very unsafe right now."

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office coordinated the search that included several rescue groups and an Oregon Army National Guard helicopter.

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Previously secret details of Portland teachers contract are now public

Stephanie Yao Long | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Details of the Portland Association of Teachers’ contract deal with the Portland school board became public Monday night ahead of the upcoming board vote to ratify the contract. The terms have been secret until now, but after the union ratified the agreement, the contract was made public.

The board vote Thursday would bring an end to more than two years of contract negotiations between the 4,000-teacher strong union and Oregon’s largest school district.

The proposed contract gives teachers a retroactive and future pay increase that works out to 3 percent for last school year, 2.75 percent for this school year and 2.25 percent for the 2018-2019 school year.

The new terms place limits on class sizes and require the district pay teachers extra if they go over those limits. For example, a kindergarten class that goes over 24 students would require the district to pay that teacher more.

In the new contract, teachers gain additional lesson planning time, chiefly from adding 15 minutes to their work day, and keep current benefits. The agreement means students will get one less school day than in recent years while teachers will get an additional professional learning day.

Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and Portland Association of Teachers President Suzanne Cohen have publicly praised the agreement and said it signals a step forward for a new partnership between teachers and leadership.

Peruse the contract here.

— Bethany Barnes

Got a tip about Portland Public Schools? Email: bbarnes@oregonian.com

Consider Thomas Jefferson’s legacy: Letter to the editor Jefferson High school in North Portland.

Dear residents of Humboldt neighborhood,

Twelve of our U.S. presidents were slave owners. As you contemplate a request to change the name of Jefferson High School, please explore and research the life of our remarkable third president Thomas Jefferson, and don’t just look at him only as a slave owner.

Know that he was a scholar who valued knowledge for all. He was one of the founders of the University of Virginia.

After the U.S. Library of Congress was burned by the British, Jefferson sold his personal library to the country. He firmly insisted on education for his children and grandchildren.

The boys went to formal schools and the girls were home schooled in Latin and history as well as embroidery and French. Jefferson fought against the institution of slavery from his days as an emissary in France into his presidency.

Eight of our nine Portland Public Schools high schools bear the honored names of U.S. presidents. May these schools continue their same heritage for years to come.

— Andy Friedle Dignan, Southwest Portland

Some neighbors of Jefferson High School in inner North Portland have proposed changing the name of the school.

Political correctness has its limits! Thomas Jefferson did a few other things besides holding slaves: Writing most of the Declaration of Independence, helping to organize the colonies to fight the Revolutionary War and recognizing early on that all 13 colonies had to band together to throw off the yoke of an English monarchy.

The slavery issue bedeviled all of the Founding Fathers but to attain unity it was essential to accept slavery as a fact while taking the first step of violently separating from the king. It took another 200 years to get to "all men are created equal" to mean the inclusion of blacks and other non-white ethnic groups, women and children. At least the United States is still working on the issue.

Unknown to most people is that 12 American presidents were known to have had slaves. If we start re-naming high schools based on the holding of slaves, there will a lot of name seeking to replace Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Johnson and Grant.

I say let the current high school names remain and stress the positive achievements of these less than perfect presidents who for the most part made substantial contributions to the molding of our nation. We have enough divisiveness in the country already without raising a new specter.

— Jeanne Mack, Hans Neville, Gary Shaw and Jim Chapman

Jefferson High School Classmates of 1953

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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast

WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Monday, January 29, 2018

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Zone Forecasts for Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington

National Weather Service Portland OR

202 PM PST Mon Jan 29 2018

Spot Temperatures are for Tonight, Tuesday, Tuesday Night,

Wednesday, Wednesday Night, and Thursday.

WAZ021-301315-

South Washington Coast-

Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,

Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment

202 PM PST Mon Jan 29 2018

.TONIGHT…Rain early then showers. Lows 40 to 45. South wind 15 to

25 mph with gusts to 35 mph early, except 20 to 30 mph with gusts to

50 mph headlands and beaches, then southwest wind 5 to 15 mph,

except west wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph near beaches and

headlands. Chance of precipitation 90 percent. Rainfall amounts a

tenth to a quarter of an inch.

.TUESDAY…Showers likely. Highs around 45. West wind 10 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall

amounts around a tenth of an inch.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Showers likely. Lows around 40. West wind 5 to

15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall amounts around

a tenth of an inch.

.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then

showers likely in the afternoon. Highs around 45. Southwest wind

5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Rain likely. Lows around 40. South wind 5 to

10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

.THURSDAY…Rain. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 80 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows around 45. Chance of rain 80 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain likely. Highs 50 to 55. Chance of rain 70 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Lows

around 45.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs 50 to 55.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.

Lows around 45.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs

50 to 55.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows

40 to 45.

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs

around 50.

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WAZ020-301315-

Willapa Hills-

Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,

and Ryderwood

202 PM PST Mon Jan 29 2018

.TONIGHT…Rain early then showers. Lows 35 to 40. South wind 15 to

25 mph with gusts to 40 mph higher terrain early, then southwest

wind 5 to 15 mph with local gusts to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation

near 100 percent. Rainfall amounts around a quarter of an inch.

.TUESDAY…Showers likely. Snow level 2500 feet. Highs 40 to 45.

Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an inch.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,

then showers likely after midnight. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows

around 35. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation

60 percent. Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an inch.

.WEDNESDAY…Rain and snow showers likely in the morning, then

showers likely in the afternoon. Snow level 2500 feet. Little or no

snow accumulation. Highs 40 to 45. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening, then

rain likely after midnight. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows around 35.

Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

.THURSDAY…Rain. Highs around 45. Chance of rain 80 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 80 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain likely. Highs 50 to 55. Chance of rain 70 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Lows

40 to 45.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs around

50.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.

Lows around 40.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs

around 50.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows

around 40.

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs

45 to 50.

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WAZ040-301315-

South Washington Cascade Foothills-

Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,

and Cougar

202 PM PST Mon Jan 29 2018

.TONIGHT…Rain in the evening then showers. Valley lows 35 to 40.

Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Gusts to 20 mph in the evening. Chance of

precipitation near 100 percent. Rainfall amounts a quarter of an

inch to one inch.

.TUESDAY…Showers likely in the morning, then rain and snow showers

in the afternoon. Snow level 2500 feet. Little or no snow

accumulation. Valley highs 40 to 45. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Chance of precipitation 90 percent. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a

quarter of an inch.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level 2500 feet.

Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Valley lows around 35. Southwest

wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall

amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch.

.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the

morning, then rain and snow showers likely in the afternoon. Snow

level 2000 feet. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Valley highs 40 to

45. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the evening,

then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow level 2500 feet.

Little or no snow accumulation. Valley lows 35 to 40. Light wind.

Chance of precipitation 60 percent.

.THURSDAY…Rain likely. Valley highs around 45. Chance of rain

70 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Rain likely. Valley lows around 40. Chance of rain

70 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain likely. Valley highs around 50. Chance of rain

70 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.

Valley lows 40 to 45.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Valley

highs 50 to 55.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.

Valley lows 40 to 45.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Valley

highs around 50.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.

Valley lows around 40.

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Valley

highs 45 to 50.

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WAZ019-301315-

South Washington Cascades-

Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,

Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley

202 PM PST Mon Jan 29 2018

.TONIGHT…Rain in the evening, then rain and snow showers after

midnight. Snow level 5500 feet, decreasing to 3500 feet after

midnight. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. West wind 5 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Rainfall amounts a half to three quarters of an inch.

.TUESDAY…Rain and snow showers in the morning, then snow showers

in the afternoon. Snow level 2500 feet. Snow accumulation of 1 to

4 inches. West wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.

Rainfall amounts around a quarter of an inch.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Snow showers likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to

4 inches. West wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.

.WEDNESDAY…Snow showers likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to

3 inches. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening, then

snow likely after midnight. Snow level 2500 feet. Snow accumulation

up to 2 inches. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.

.THURSDAY…Snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow in the

afternoon. Snow level 2500 feet, increasing to 4000 feet in the

afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Chance of

precipitation 80 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Rain. Snow level 7000 feet. Chance of rain

80 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain likely. Snow level 7500 feet. Chance of rain

70 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Snow

level 6500 feet.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Snow

level 5500 feet.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.

Snow level 7000 feet.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Snow level

7500 feet.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Snow

level 7000 feet.

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Snow level

5500 feet.

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The two sides fought each other on the streets of Portland

Antifa: What is it and what do they want?

‘Antifa’, short for anti-fascists, have become a lightning rod in Donald Trump’s America.

They are the often masked protesters seen clashing with the far right on streets across the country.

The Antifa movement has attracted more and more attention in the last year, perhaps most memorably shutting down a speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley.

And then for its presence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one person was killed and many injured when a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd protesting against a planned ‘unite the right’ event.

Anti-fascism is of course not a new idea, but the modern version of this radical resistance has been electrified by Mr Trump’s victory.

Many Antifa members blame the President for a measurable rise in hate crimes and far right activity since his election.

To some, anti-fascists have become revolutionary warriors for justice and a crucial last line of defence against the forces of racism and bigotry that can seem all too close to the surface here.

But to others, including some in the police force and to an extent Mr Trump himself, who called them "the alt-left", they are dangerous criminals hell bent on burning it all down.

We went to Portland, a city with a long history of both white supremacist and anti-fascist activity, to find out more.

Many of those who spoke to us insisted on a degree of anonymity, and so most of the names below are nicknames or pseudonyms.

Posters were stapled to trees near the home of an alleged far right supporter Our introduction to this secretive world of activism began at night.

We are invited to film as a group flyers a neighbourhood with posters declaring that a local resident is a member of the American Front, a violent racist gang.

Direct Action Alliance member Jacob tells us that some other activists have done the "necessary reconnaissance" to know their target’s dog walking route, and where he buys his milk.

A team of about 10 hooded and masked members work at a rapid pace, stapling the flyers and ‘fight racism’ posters to lampposts and gluing them to the pavement.

Jacob said: "What Antifa is is basically community defence, what we do is make sure the people in our community are safe.

"That’s what this is, is letting the community know that there’s a dangerous person who lives with them and so they can take the proper precautions to protect themselves."

He explains the anti-fascist movement has been busy since Mr Trump was elected.

"The Trump presidency has really wakened a lot of folks to realise… white supremacy isn’t over, racism isn’t over.

"It’s alive, it’s prevalent and it’s well, they’ve just been hiding."

All of a sudden, the group gets spooked.

They’ve received a warning that the white supremacist and his friends know we are here.

Members of Patriot Prayer were holding an anti-immigrant rally in Portland

One says: "You guys gotta go", and the group melts away into the night.

The next day, a coalition of Antifa protesters allow us to film as they disrupt an anti-immigrant rally held by a far-right organisation called Patriot Prayer.

Patriot Prayer says it is not a white supremacist group, but those who oppose it say it provides both a platform and cover for hardcore racists.

It grows tense as the two sides stand nose to nose. One Patriot Prayer supporter tells a Latino woman to "go home". She pushes him away.

One protester tells me: "We can’t give fascists an inch or they will take a mile, we’ve seen that before in Europe, they have to be quashed when they are small and by any means necessary."

"Any means necessary" can mean physical confrontation, which is exactly what happens.

The fist fights continue for long enough for people to be injured on both sides.

Image: The two sides fought each other on the streets of Portland There were injuries on both sides as the groups clashed in broad daylight

The hatred, fear and anger on display is shocking to watch. Patriot Prayer moves off towards the river, surrounded by the police, as Antifa protesters track them down the street.

There is little love lost between law enforcement and Antifa, who reject the police as a racist organisation.

The police in turn often view them as troublemakers, or even criminals, who prioritise their own principles at the expense of the law.

As we are moving, an Antifa member called Isaiah explains the dark dress code and masks to me: "The tactic is known as black bloc and it is a tactic that we use to make it harder to be arrested by the police.

"In its basic sense, it’s harder to differentiate between two of us.

"We (also) cover our face because many people on the far right dox us; they take our photos, they post it online, they find our home addresses and cell phone numbers, they send us death threats, they attempt physical violence against us, if they don’t know who we are we’re safe, essentially, it is self-protection."

I ask him what he says to the accusation from the far right that doxing, or the releasing of personal information online, is exactly what Antifa does to its targets.

He makes no apology for it: "Quite frankly, neo-Nazis believe that at some point in time they will have to commit horrific acts of violence in order to see their world view achieved, to murder non-white en masse.

"If they hold those beliefs in my opinion they should be exposed for it, they should be publicly shamed for it… Yes, I find that perfectly acceptable."

Antifa members ‘black bloc’ to make it harder to be identified and arrested There is little love lost between the police and Antifa members

Rose City Antifa member ‘Lucy’ tells me that much of their group’s most important work happens away from the streets, often using sophisticated techniques to track down white supremacists online.

"I think they get much more scared when we know their names, when we know their addresses, where they work, that certainly makes them more afraid.

"When we release someone’s place of work, our hope is to get them fired.

"Any second that a Nazi is spending looking for work, or looking for housing if they’ve been evicted, is time they’re not spending organising."

Lucy’s colleague ‘Carter’ says: "It’s a very genuine threat, you know they’re organising, they’re emboldened, and they are committing murders.

"Dylan Roof, a neo-Nazi, murdered people in South Carolina… There have been cases in Portland of anti-fascists being attacked and neo-Nazis consistently murder people here and around the globe.

"These are real threats to our community, and the more we oppose them, the safer our communities are."

In Portland, Jeremy Christian has come to embody that threat.

The movement has ramped up its action since President Trump was elected

Last May he stabbed two men to death when they tried to stop him shouting abuse at some schoolgirls who were travelling on the train.

Destinee Mangum was one of them.

She told me: "He said we should go back to where we came from and we shouldn’t be here and we don’t deserve to live.

“His eyes were kind of black almost. and like I was just staring at him while he was talking and he was looking right back at me and that’s when I was terrified."

Historian Mark Bray argues that when there is such an acute, rising threat from the far right, radical politics is necessary, however disruptive.

He said: "How many bodies have to pile up before we decide to respond to this group that has demonstrated its genocidal intent historically and is targeting people today?

"There’s that question of immediate self-defence, but then there’s also that question of what I call ‘pre-emptive self-defence’, which is that do you assume that far fight violence is inevitable? Or do you assume that if you leave these groups alone they may remain peaceful?"

Anti-fascists don’t give them the benefit of the doubt, they say it is a matter of when, not if they will be violent, and in that sense confronting them physically and shutting down their events is part of their repertoire.

He said: "Most anti-fascists are revolutionaries who want to create a new world and in their view part of doing that means breaking with the rules that are meant to keep this world, to keep this capitalist society how it is.

"So in that sense they are not bound to questions of legality, they are bound to questions of ethics and political values."

It is this willingness to break the rules in pursuit of their goals, to use "any means necessary", that has prompted some to argue that Antifa should be classified as gang members or even terrorists.

But they care little for the controversy.

For most of them, the act of resistance is both a moral obligation and a means of survival.

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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast

WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Saturday, January 13, 2018

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283 FPUS56 KPQR 141023

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Zone Forecasts for Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington

National Weather Service Portland OR

223 AM PST Sun Jan 14 2018

Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, Martin Luther King Jr

Day, Monday Night, and Tuesday.

WAZ021-141900-

South Washington Coast-

Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,

Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment

223 AM PST Sun Jan 14 2018

.TODAY…Partly to mostly sunny. Highs around 55. East wind 5 to 15

mph with gusts to 30 mph.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 45. East wind 5 to 15 mph with

gusts to 25 mph.

.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of

rain. Highs 50 to 55. East wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.

Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows around 45. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.TUESDAY…Rain likely in the morning, then showers likely in the

afternoon. Highs around 50. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Near beaches and

headlands, gusts to 30 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation

70 percent.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,

then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows 40 to 45. Chance of

precipitation 50 percent.

.WEDNESDAY…Rain. Highs 45 to 50. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows 40 to 45. Chance of rain near

100 percent.

.THURSDAY…Showers. Highs around 45. Chance of precipitation

90 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Showers likely. Lows around 40. Chance of

precipitation 70 percent.

.FRIDAY…Showers likely. Highs 40 to 45. Chance of precipitation

60 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.

Lows around 40.

.SATURDAY…Showers likely. Highs around 45. Chance of precipitation

60 percent.

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WAZ020-141900-

Willapa Hills-

Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,

and Ryderwood

223 AM PST Sun Jan 14 2018

.TODAY…Partly to mostly sunny. Highs around 55. Southeast wind 5

to 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 40 to 45. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph.

.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of

rain. Highs around 50. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to

25 mph.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows around 40. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.TUESDAY…Rain in the morning, then showers likely in the

afternoon. Highs 45 to 50. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph

in the morning. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,

then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows around 40. Chance of

precipitation 40 percent.

.WEDNESDAY…Rain. Highs 40 to 45. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Rain. Lows 35 to 40. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.THURSDAY…Showers. Highs 40 to 45. Chance of precipitation

90 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Showers. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows around 35.

Chance of precipitation 80 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level 2500 feet. Highs

40 to 45. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and

snow showers. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows around 35.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow

showers. Snow level 2000 feet. Highs 40 to 45.

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WAZ040-141900-

South Washington Cascade Foothills-

Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,

and Cougar

223 AM PST Sun Jan 14 2018

.TODAY…Partly cloudy. Patchy morning valley fog. Valley highs 50

to 55. East wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Valley lows

40 to 45. East wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph.

.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance

of rain. Valley highs 45 to 50. East wind 10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 35

mph, decreasing to 25 mph in the afternoon.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening, then rain

after midnight. Valley lows around 40. Southeast wind 10 to 20 mph.

Chance of rain 90 percent.

.TUESDAY…Rain in the morning, then showers in the afternoon.

Valley highs 45 to 50. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of

precipitation 80 percent.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,

then a chance of rain after midnight. Valley lows 35 to 40. Chance

of precipitation 50 percent.

.WEDNESDAY…Rain. Valley highs 40 to 45. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Rain. Valley lows 35 to 40. Chance of rain

90 percent.

.THURSDAY…Showers. Valley highs 40 to 45. Chance of precipitation

90 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Showers. Valley lows 35 to 40. Chance of

precipitation 80 percent.

.FRIDAY…Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level 2000 feet. Valley

highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow

showers. Snow level 2000 feet. Valley lows around 35.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow

showers. Snow level 2000 feet. Valley highs around 40.

$$

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WAZ019-141900-

South Washington Cascades-

Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,

Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley

223 AM PST Sun Jan 14 2018

.TODAY…Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 12000 feet.

East wind 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph.

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy. Free

air freezing level 11000 feet. East wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to

25 mph.

.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Mostly cloudy. Free air freezing level

10000 feet. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening, then rain

after midnight. Snow level 6000 feet. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph

with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.

.TUESDAY…Rain and snow in the morning, then rain and snow showers

in the afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet. Snow accumulation up to

2 inches. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation

80 percent.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in

the evening, then a chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow

level 3500 feet. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Chance of

precipitation 50 percent.

.WEDNESDAY…Rain and snow. Snow level 3500 feet. Chance of

precipitation 90 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Rain and snow. Snow level 4000 feet. Chance of

precipitation 90 percent.

.THURSDAY…Rain and snow showers. Snow level 3000 feet. Chance of

precipitation 90 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Rain and snow showers. Snow level 3000 feet.

Chance of precipitation 90 percent.

.FRIDAY…Snow showers likely. Chance of snow 70 percent.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.

.SATURDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.

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Op-Ed: Portland’s Bus-Your-Own-Table Culture Must Die

When you’re paying $30, $40, or $50 for a meal, should you be expected to bus your own table?

As the calendar ticks over, many of us ask, what will it take for us to become our best selves this year? There may not be much hope for improvement when it comes to my own waistline, but I have some notes for my new hometown of Portland, Oregon. My fervent desire is that in 2018, Portland abandons the system where diners bus their own table at restaurants. It’s a user-unfriendly, messy, passive-aggressive way to end a meal at any establishment that is neither fast nor casual. It is one of the worst aspects of Brand Portland™ to expand east of the Cascades and the time has come to abandon it. Won’t you join me in this quest to slay my bête noire?

For those of you not blessed with this style of service where you live, I refer to the system of dining wherein you order at a counter, take a number on a stick, sit down and your meal is brought to you when it’s ready. Sometimes drinks are delivered, sometimes you have to go get them yourself. Sometimes you get free refills (always shocking for an expatriate New Yorker) and sometimes you have to go back to the counter to get another round. Often, you’re expected to take your dishes and put them in a bus tub elsewhere in the restaurant after you finish eating.

Busing your own table, while imperfect, made a certain kind of sense in Portland’s early days. “When I opened Bollywood Theater I decided to go with a counter service model, with patrons bussing their own tables," says Troy MacLarty, chef and owner of Indian mainstay Bollywood Theater. "Counter service cut out the time before ordering and after eating. Contrary to popular theory, it doesn’t save on the amount of people you have working, but it does mean more customers per employee and more sales per hour.”

I’m not an absolutist, either. At a coffee shop or a sandwich joint, be my guest, and ask people to bus their own tables. The margins at a coffee shop are as thin as they come, and I am happy to do my part, even if my coffee does not magically become 25 cents cheaper than it would be otherwise. Sadly, it’s the norm here even at restaurants where the check can reach $30, $40, $50 a head. That’s where I take umbrage. Umbrage!

The bus-your-own system survives in Portland because it depends on everyone striving to be West Coast Nice above all else. My friends, there isn’t anything nice about a long look at other patron’s lipstick-stained cups and half-eaten food at the end of an expensive meal. All this going along to get along has painted us into a corner, and the only way out is by smashing this system. As a society, we are better than making diners feel guilty, forcing them to do work, and creating a culture of paranoia, all in the service of saving a few lousy shekels.

One thing I know for sure about 2018 is that savings aren’t passed on to anyone. Are you really being charged a lesser amount at Portland restaurants with $20 entrees because of the lack of bussers? Heck no. Instead it’s a firm grip on the filthy end of the stick, delivered right to your table. In a city where the choices people make about food are treated with intense scrutiny, this absence comes across as careless, a spectacular failure of user experience and hospitality.

In a glimmer of hope for me in the coming year, the marketplace agrees. MacLarty reports that Bollywood Theater switched away from their counter service model last year. “I wanted to elevate our level of service, and have a bit more personal connection with our customers, something that can be difficult in a high volume, counter service restaurant. It actually saves time and money if we clear the tables, and certain customers consider bussing to be the difference between service and no service, so we’ve found that it helps the staff greatly with tips.” There you have it. The only thing separating restaurant staff and better tips is a big honking bus tub.

Portland has a dining scene that punches far above its weight class. It’s the smallest city with a restaurant on the most recent Food + Wine Restaurants of the Year list, for example. Sadly, this one choice casts an irritating shadow over an otherwise exemplary food town. It should not be the default mode for restaurants that open here in the years to come. We may not be able to change everything we dislike about 2018, but we can rid the world of this scourge. Together, let us pledge to end the practice of bus-shaming for good.

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Portland, Maine, gets new non-stop to Chicago O’Hare on American

An American Eagle CRJ-700 taxies to the terminal after landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 23, 2017.

(Photo: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special to USA TODAY)

American Airlines will connect Portland, Maine, to its hub at Chicago O’Hare.

The service will begin June 7, with American’s Envoy offering two daily round-trip flights on 70-seat Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jets. American’s Portland-Chicago schedule will be seasonal, running through Oct. 3.

The expansion is the second for American in Portland since November. Last month, the airline said it would add regional service from Portland to New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

TODAY IN THE SKY: December route roundup: Where airlines are adding (or cutting) service

“We are thrilled to have American Airlines make their second air service announcement in a month, growing service here at Portland,” Portland International Jetport director Paul Bradbury said in a statement.

He added American’s new Chicago service “will add additional westbound capacity to our market, which has been a strategic focus of the airport to meet the business needs of our community”

American Airlines is the largest carrier at the Portland International Jetport. The airline already flies from the airport to its hubs in Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington Reagan National. The LaGuardia service starts in April.

BY THE NUMBERS: The fleet and hubs of American Airlines

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Here’s Where to Drink the Hottest Cocktail Trends in Portland, Mapped

When you have as many amazing cocktail spots as Portland has, it’s important for a bar to stand out. This drives bartenders to creativity: For some, it means finding a niche, starting a trend, or developing an innovative new approach to making drinks. Whether it’s barrel-aged drinks, sous vide cocktails, or bold new ingredients, Portland bartenders have shaped the scene of the city and beyond.

Thus we present the Portland cocktail trends map. Find the tastiest libations from this city’s most innovative bars. (Note that the points on this map are not ranked. They are organized geographically).

Sherry can add salinity and body to cocktails, and sherry cocktails can add a lot to Ataula’s already magnificent tapas. Let bar manager Angel Teta make you one of her signature sherry-based cocktails. You’d be hard pressed to find a more knowledgeable bartender on wine in Portland.

Not only does MWL have an epic whiskey collection, it has changed what it means to be a bar. Here, you take a seat, as at a restaurant, and the bartenders bring the bar to you on an old-school wooden cart with wheels. Watch up close from the comfort of your high backed captain’s chair as your mobile barkeep shakes and stirs one of the thousand spirits for your fancy beverage of choice.

Raven and Rose and its upstairs bar The Rookery specialize in a number of things, including sourcing exclusive, custom-blended spirits. But in the colder months the menu features an extensive selection of hot drinks. Classics like Portland’s own Spanish Coffee are there, as well as original drinks like the Ballycotton Toddy, an Irish whiskey toddy with a moss reduction that gives it a silkiness and light vegetal quality. All of them are great for warming you up on a cold Portland winter day.

Many of our great bartenders in this city learned their craft under Teardrop Lounge owner Daniel Shoemaker’s watch. Today, this Pearl District mainstay is still the place for a thoughtfully and classically made cocktail built on top-shelf spirits and a host of house-made components, including a massive selection of inventive bitters (bitters are like salt and pepper for cocktails). Bring a group of friends and try one of their shareable drinks, serving up to six people.

Bit House Saloon has an entire section of its cocktail menu devoted to the old fashioned, a drink that can be made with more than just whiskey. Each one on the menu has its own spirit and flavors, like the Auld Bas, a scotch old-fashioned with smoked tea, cinnamon, and honey. Those looking for a more traditional take will be happy with the House Old Fashioned made with the BSH Single Barrel Buffalo Trace, demerara sugar, and Angostura bitters.

We all know that chef Bonnie Morales knows her pelmeni and zakuski, but you can’t get the full-on Russian experience without vodka. Here there’s a huge selection of local, imported, and house-infused vodkas. If you thought all vodkas tasted the same, educate yourself with a flight. And don’t miss the beautifully balanced house infusions like horseradish, rosemary, or juniper, which pair perfectly with the food.

When you have wood fired ovens and sous vide cookers, you might as well use them; at least, that’s Collin Carroll’s sentiments for the bar at Trifecta Tavern. Here, he and his staff char different woods to infuse into cocktails via sous vide. They also make clarified milk punches, classic cocktails, and more whimsical drinks, as exemplified by the “Yacht Drinks” portion of the menu.

It’s a good sign when bartenders namedrop a bar, and in Portland, that’s usually going to be Rum Club. Head here to explore rum’s wide range of styles, on its own and in drinks. There’s a huge selection of the spirit, and it’s always in good hands, with veteran Portland bartender Mike Shea running the show.

Gin and tonics can be found at any bar, but the ones at the Spanish tapas and wine bar Bar Casa Vale are unique. The menu includes several different “gin tonics,” and each is served in a large goblet full of cracked ice, adorned with beautiful botanicals that do more than just please the eye: The herbs and citrus are carefully selected for each gin to enhance its flavor profile.

While there are many bars claiming to be speakeasys, none are as authentic as Bible Club. Every piece of barware and every fixture in the restaurant, down to the door-knobs, are vintage, often dating back before the turn of the century. Cocktails here are made to match, giving you a truly historical experience.

There’s no menu at Angel Face; instead, bartenders make a drink according to your described preferences, and they’re always up for a challenge. You can stick with straightforward adjectives, like “sweet,” “dry,” or “bold,” or you can be playful with “melancholy,” “urbane,” “refined,” and “vivacious.” Either way, their talent turns your wish into a libation.

Often, a “tropical” drink means something cloying and full of fruit juices and syrups. Not so at Earl Nimson’s Thai restaurant Paadee, where bar manager Jon Lewis is making creative, spirit-forward drinks with a variety of unconventional ingredients. Coconut and banana are two of his go-to flavors, and they’re expertly mixed with mezcal, rum, tequila, and whiskeys for creative, balanced cocktails that pair excellently with Paadee’s food.

It’s a dream team mash-up of James Beard Award-winning chef Naomi Pomeroy’s drinking snacks and Kyle Webster’s drinking creations at this cozy cocktail spot. Go with the will of the bartender by ordering the Diplomatic Pouch, a blind box of a drink in which the ingredients remain a mystery.

From the day it opened, the bar at this Southeast modern Mexican restaurant has devoted itself to the many pleasures of the agave, with liberal use of smoky mezcal in the cocktails and eye-opening tequila and mezcal flights.

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Ted Wheeler: Addressing Portland’s livability without ‘harassing the homeless’ (Guest opinion)

Mayor Ted speaks to demonstrators who took over the Portland City Council chambers last winter calling on leaders to do more for the city’s homeless. (

By Ted Wheeler

Portland is a dynamic and prosperous city, and I’m honored to serve as your mayor.

People are moving here from all around the nation and the world to participate in what our community has to offer, including diverse employment opportunities, thriving and unique neighborhoods, world-class restaurants and access to nature.

I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.

The Seattle Times recently characterized our economy as "transformational," and Forbes called Portland the "Best Place for Business and Careers" in the country. A recent survey from Downtown Clean and Safe found that employment, wages and the number of new businesses are all growing.

But this success and its resulting growth have come with some big-city problems, among them rising housing costs, concerns about safety, more litter and graffiti, and increased traffic congestion. More than anything else, I hear about the need to address our homeless crisis with clarity, consistency and compassion.

In concert with my colleagues in Portland, Multnomah County and the Joint Office of Homeless Services, we’ve made record investments – driven by record business license revenues – on a compassionate and comprehensive approach to homelessness. Our approach includes more rent assistance, enhanced shelter options, improved community mental health services, addiction treatment and permanent housing. We are doing more, even as the federal government retreats from its commitment to housing and mental health.

The goal is to get people the help they need to get off and stay off the streets.

We are already seeing signs of progress. Last year, our community partnerships with local business, non-profits and public agencies created pathways to stable housing and services to nearly 30,000 people in our community. A recent official count showed that there are fewer homeless people without shelter in Portland and Multnomah County than there were two years ago.

At the same time, our growing city is facing pointed questions about public safety and livability. I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.

All of us should expect to live, work and conduct our daily lives in a community that is safe and clean. Nobody should feel threatened anywhere in our city, and nobody should be exposed to public health or environmental hazards that can be prevented.

My administration is pursuing common-sense public safety and livability strategies. We started by enforcing existing laws that had been inconsistently and sparingly applied in the past. That means increasing the number of police walking beats across the city, hiring more Park Rangers to patrol our parks, creating a new Community Service Officer program, enhancing Clean and Safe efforts to eliminate trash, biohazards and drug needles, expanding our neighborhood graffiti abatement program, and starting a new program to get hazardous and abandoned RVs off our roads.

Our most recent public safety effort includes identifying areas with a lot of foot traffic – the kinds of places frequented by visitors to our great city. Portland doesn’t have a "sit-lie" ordinance like Seattle or San Francisco. Our use of high pedestrian zones is significantly more limited and nuanced, but it gives authorities the flexibility they need to address specific public safety or public health threats in congested areas, by keeping our sidewalks accessible and walkable. This common-sense approach will not be used to harass homeless people as some have wrongly suggested.

We have a comprehensive strategy to address housing, homelessness and livability. The strength of our strategy is bringing many threads together. Alone, any one thread can break. But woven together we are creating something effective, something durable.

The majority of our work lies ahead and I expect us to continue to make significant progress. I am dedicated to ensuring that the prosperity our city is experiencing extends to everyone who lives, works and visits Portland.

Ted Wheeler is the mayor of Portland.

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An Introduction To Portland, Oregon

Whether you have already been a resident of Oregon, or are simply looking for a new place to move, Portland is a popular residence for people of all ages and interests. If you want to live in an open minded community with a wide variety of interesting people and opportunities, this city might be the best place for you.

Located near the northern border of the state on the western side, it provides incredibly easy access to Washington State and all that is offered there as well. Many people choose to relocate to this area because they can easily travel back and forth between the two.

The I-5 corridor that extends through the entirety of Oregon, heading north into Washington and south into California, is where the vast majority of the people in the state live. The largest concentration of residents is in Portland, Salem, and the surrounding communities. Although Portland is not the capital of the state, it is the most well known.

The people who live there are interested in a more progressive lifestyle than you can find in many other parts of the country. Organic farming, restaurants and similarly related practices are part of what makes the city so well known. It has led the way in the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana, which has brought considerable income into the city and the state.

If you are thinking about moving to the city, be in for a wonderful collection of eclectic citizens who are there to find themselves and allow others to do the same. With a strong artistic community and plenty of access to fishing and other water sports, you will never be bored! Give Portland a try for a visit or a move if you are ready to embrace an open minded group of people!

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Portland metro Monday Traffic: Commuters invited to comment on proposed changes to I-205 corridor

Commuters who regularly use the Interstate 205 corridor between Oregon City and the Interstate 5 interchange are invited to comment on proposed changes to the freeway.

The two-lane section of I-205 between the Abernethy Bridge and the Stafford Road interchange often creates a bottleneck that causes congestion and crashes and creates delays for travelers and freight.

According to an Oregon Department of Transportation study, more than 100,000 vehicles use the section of I-205 daily and drivers experience five and half hours of congestion each day.

Read more about proposed improvements to this stretch of freeway and add your opinions using an online open house link at www.i205corridor.org.

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Roy Smith, 64 of Bend, was killed in a head-on crash in icy conditions in Klamath County.

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Portland metro Sunday weather: Soggy all week

Expect rain to continue at least until Wednesday. (

Portland is waking up to rain, sometimes heavy, on Sunday morning. Expect that to continue well into the week.

Temperatures are relatively mild, at 46 degrees at 7:30 a.m. with a forecast high of 55. Forecasters anticipate similar conditions in the early part of the week with rain continuing at least until Wednesday, when skies possibly drying out then with temperatures falling into the mid 30s.

Winds are strong on the Oregon coast, with gusts up to 60 miles an hour on the beaches until 10 a.m. Sunday. The National Weather Service forecasts a cool, wet week.

The mild temperatures are spoiling the start of the ski season on Mount Hood. Mt. Hood Meadows had planned to open this weekend, but called that off amid rain and temperatures in the 40s.

There’s a chance of snow in the mountains on Tuesday and Wednesday, but forecasts call for cold, dry conditions late in the week.

— Mike Rogoway; twitter: @rogoway; 503-294-7699

Rain had not yet arrived Saturday morning, Nov. 25, 2017, as the sun rose over Portland. (Allan Brettman/staff) Rainy conditions have delayed the opening of ski season at Mount Hood Meadows on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017.

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University of Portland Pilots men seize second place in the NCAA Cross Country Championships

Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse

The University of Portland men put three individuals in the top 30 Saturday to take second place in the NCAA Cross Country Championships at Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky.

Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse paced the fourth-ranked Pilots with an 11th-place finish, covering the 10,000-meter course in 29 minutes, 38.9 seconds.

Teammates Jeff Thies and Nick Hauger placed 14th and 26th respectively.

Northern Arizona won the men’s team title with 74 points. The Pilots were second with 127 to record their best-ever showing in a championship meet.

Justyn Knight of Syracuse was the individual winner with a time of 29:00.1.

New Mexico won the women’s title, scoring 90 points. The University of San Francisco was second with 105. The top individual finisher was New Mexico’s Ednah Kurgat, who clocked a time of 19:19.5 on the 6,000-meter course.

The Oregon Ducks, defending women’s champions, came in fifth. Sophomore Katie Rainsberger was the top UO finisher. She was 16th in 19:50.6.

The UO men placed sixth.

Here are the results from the NCAA Cross Country Championships.

— Ken Goe

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City on losing side of trademark dispute involving iconic ‘Portland, Oregon’ sign

The city of Portland owns the physical sign and the trademarks for the white stag in certain categories. (KATU Photo) Adam Milne, owner of Old Town Pizza & Brewing, says he offered to sit down with the city and negotiate, but he says the city refused to compromise. (KATU Photo)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Who owns the iconic "Portland, Oregon" sign that sits above the west end of the Burnside Bridge?

The basic answer is simple. The city of Portland owns the physical sign. It was acquired in 2010 and remodeled. But the question of who can use images of the sign, complete with the logo of a white stag leaping through the air, is harder to answer.

"We were granted that trademark in August of 2012, and so we’ve had it for more than five years," said Adam Milne, owner of Old Town Pizza & Brewing.

Milne’s trademarks are for the image of the white stag in the category of beer, wine, and alcohol. He initially applied for the first trademark in 2011. He says there was never any objection from any city attorneys or officials. Since his trademark is now more than five years old, it’s been granted "incontestable" status by the United States Patent & Trademark Office. That makes for a trademark that’s on solid legal footing. If anyone in the business of beer, wine, and alcohol tried to use the image in any way, Milne would have legal recourse.

The city of Portland also owns trademarks for the white stag in certain categories. As reported in Willamette Week, the city has sent cease and desist letters to artists and businesses who attempt to use the image in their products and services. The city will allow the use of the white stag in certain instances through licensing deals.

Milne says the city has tried to pursue such deals with national beer companies, even though Old Town Brewing has the trademark in that category. He says because his trademark is so strong, the city has been blocked from getting other trademark protections.

"They applied for all sorts of categories, including beer, alcohol, soda, wine, T-shirts, glassware, mugs, hats," he said. "That wasn’t our intention but all of those were blocked."

When Milne learned of the city being blocked in so many categories, he says he offered to sit down with city officials to negotiate.

"We immediately said, ‘Hey, we want to help you, that’s not our intention here,’" he recalled. "But when we met with them, they just had no interest in compromising or helping us just protect beer and alcohol."

Milne says the city is interested in licensing deals with national beer companies because of how lucrative they could be.

"We were all along calling them and trying to meet with them to work with them," Milne said. "We wanted to help our city. We were just shocked that they weren’t interested in our help and also how they basically wanted to favor large national beer and alcohol companies over small local businesses."

Bryan Enge, the director of Portland’s Bureau of Internal Business Services, wasn’t available for an interview with KATU News. But he did send a statement:

People around the world associate Portland with things like gourmet food, bicycles, sneakers, and beer. Licensing the City trademark to companies in these and other industries helps maintain the image of Portland as a place where people want to live, work and visit. The City acquired the sign in 2010, before Old Town Brewing even existed. This positive image benefits all of us, including Old Town Brewing, and is probably why Old Town took the leaping stag as its trademark. Having taken the stag from the City sign, Old Town now wants to prevent the City from licensing its own trademark. The City does not believe this is fair.

The City understands Old Town’s concerns about other beer companies using the stag alone. To respond to these concerns, the City offered never to license the sign image without the outline of the state of Oregon and the words “Portland, Oregon”, and not to allow beer companies to use the words “Old Town”. The City even offered to require beer companies to use a disclaimer such as “Not affiliated with Old Town Brewing”. Old Town rejected all of these offers.

The USPTO has invited the City to provide more information about its ownership and licensing of the sign, which the City plans to do. Regardless of the outcome in the USPTO, the City believes it has the right to license the City sign based on its ownership of the sign, its Oregon trademark registration, and its federal copyright registration. The City will continue to do this in a way that the City believes does not negatively affect Old Town Brewing.

In response to the statement, Milne wrote:

We are very disappointed by the statement from the City of Portland. The city is wasting probably tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars in its losing effort to expand its federal trademark to include beer and alcohol, apparently intent on licensing to big beer, which would confuse consumers and hurt our brand. If the city really believes in Portland values, they need to come forward with details of their discussions to license to Anheuser-Busch, Maker’s Mark and other multinational corporations.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has assigned “incontestable” status to Old Town Brewing’s federal trademark registration for its leaping deer design. Our simple request is that the city not license the leaping deer logo for alcohol, especially to large multinational beer conglomerates.

Milne also takes issue with how the city has asked for licensing deals in the past. He says his research has shown the city didn’t apply for any federal trademarks involving the "white stag sign" until 2015, but they were pursuing licensing deals well before that.

"Trademark attorneys that I’ve talked to have just been kind of frustrated and upset about that," he said.

KATU News asked Enge if the city had applied for any other kind of legal protections for use of the sign, but hasn’t heard back.

Milne knows the city has some trademarks for the sign, but he also questions why it ever decided to try and claim intellectual ownership after buying the physical sign.

"It’s like the city buying a Nike ad billboard and then claiming that they own the Swoosh," he said.

Milne isn’t sure what other steps the city will take in trying to find legal protection for beer, wine, and alcohol licensing deals. But he told KATU News their trademark applications in that category have been rejected several times and he’s comfortable where he stands legally.

"We have a lot of brand recognition," Milne said. "We’re now in grocery stores around town. If our beer bottle looked like Budweiser and other big brands, it would be confusing and it would be devastating for our brand."

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Lead in Portland water exceeded federal limits

Portlanders could be at risk for lead poisoning from their drinking water.

The Portland Water Bureau last week found that lead levels at high-risk homes in Portland exceeded federal limits.

The city tested water from a sampling of 134 homes that it deems at high risk for lead exposure because they contain pipes and faucets manufactured at a time when fixtures could contain significant amounts of lead.

Of the homes tested, more than 13 percent exceeded the state limit of 15 parts per billion. Federal rules require the city to notify the public of lead risks any time more than 10 percent of water samples are that tainted.

If ingested, lead can harm children’s development, cause miscarriages and build up in people’s blood, brain and bones. No amount of lead is considered safe.

"Ideally, all of our customers’ household plumbing fixtures would be lead-free, but they aren’t," Portland Water Bureau Director Michael Stuhr said in a statement. "This is why we are making improvements to our system to further reduce the potential for lead at our customers’ taps."

October’s lead test results marked the third time in five years that Portland exceeded federal limits on lead in water. Its water tests have hovered around that limit for more than 20 years.

Portland’s drinking water comes from the Bull Run watershed and is minimally treated. The bureau does increase the pH level of the water to limit the water’s corrosiveness and reduce its ability to leach lead from pipes.

The Portland City Council in March approved a pilot study to improve corrosion control treatment after a study called for additional treatment. The bureau plans to implement the new treatment method by Spring 2022.

"Between now and 2022, we’re doing work to determine the best type of treatment," Water Bureau spokeswoman Jaymee Cuti said.

In the meantime, water bureau officials recommend customers take steps to reduce their risk of exposure to lead. They include running taps to flush out lead before using the water to drink or cook, using only cold water from the tap, using filters and regularly cleaning aerators.

Officials suggest running the tap for 2 minutes or until the water gets colder, indicating that the water is coming from pipes outside the home.

Use only cold tap water for cooking and baby formula and do not boil water to remove lead. Lead dissolves more easily in hot water.

The bureau recommends asking a doctor to check children for lead and testing your water.

To get a free lead test or inquire about checking a child, call the LeadLine at 503-988-4000 or visit www.leadline.org.

–Jessica Floum

503-221-8306

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