Portland-based attorney James Buchal on the federal government dropping nearly half of all Portland riot cases.
Portland, Oregon, residents surveyed about the city’s downtown said they plan to visit less frequently, mainly citing the homelessness and rioting that has plagued the area in the last year, according to a new poll.
Respondents to the poll commissioned by The Oregonian newspaper used words like dirty, trash, riots and unsafe to describe the heart of the city, which appears to have deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest of the past year.
Downtown Portland, once a cultural and tourist center, is now rife with homeless tents, smashed windows, graffiti, trash and boarded-up businesses, the newspaper reported.
Downtown in distress: Portland’s core is unsafe and uninviting, residents say in new poll, threatening city’s recovery
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Residents describe downtown as “destroyed,” “trashed,” “riots” and “sad. Persistent vandalism, accumulating trash and homelessness have soured attitudes about Portland s economic, cultural and transportation hub.Dave Killen/The Oregonian
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Residents across the metro area say downtown Portland has become dirty, unsafe and uninviting and many anticipate visiting the city’s core less often after the pandemic than they did before.
Those are the worrisome findings of a new poll of 600 people half who live within Portland’s city limits commissioned by The Oregonian/OregonLive. Asked for their perceptions of downtown, respondents frequently used words like “destroyed,” “trashed,” “riots” and “sad.” Many cited homelessness as a particular issue, and said there is an urgent need fo
The Art Of Icarus
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Icarus, Dean Hall’s latest survival adventure, so it only made sense that we spent some time having a look at some of the game’s art.
One of the pain points of
Icarus‘s development, according to Dean Hall, was nailing the art direction. “We specifically said we didn’t want to do bubblegum sci-fi no