Portland businesses are navigating wave of window smashing and burglaries with little help from city
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Work crews on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, clean up damage and board up windows in Northeast Portland s Hollywood District after protesters the previous night damaged and vandalized 27 businesses and workspaces, police said.
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Hanh Truong arrived at Fujiyama Sushi Bar & Grill early Jan. 28 to find the floor of the restaurant covered with broken glass.
Security footage showed someone driving up to the Southeast 82nd Avenue sushi bar before hurling a rock through the window. The same person threw another rock through the window of the nail salon next door before driving away, said Truong, the store manager at Fujiyama.
February 11 2021
Secretary of state, advocates say it would end voter confusion over when to mail them back.
Oregon, the nation s first state to conduct all elections by mail, would join the ranks of other states to accept ballots postmarked by election day under legislation heard Thursday, Feb. 11.
House bills 2226 and 2687, heard by the House Rules Committee, are nearly identical, except that HB 2226 by Rep. Marty Wilde, D-Eugene, would allow third-party collection of ballots only on election day itself.
Oregon now requires mail ballots to be in the hands of county elections officials by 8 p.m. election day. Postmarks do not count, unlike the practice in Washington, California, Nevada, 11 other states and Washington, D.C., according to a 2020 report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Four other states require a postmark the day before the election.
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Murmurs: Police Called to Ryan Home Four Times Since October In other news: Vandals hit Jade District. Dan Ryan. (Courtesy of Dan Ryan) Updated February 10
POLICE CALLED TO RYAN S HOME FOUR TIMES SINCE OCTOBER: Portland police have been dispatched to City Commissioner Dan Ryan s home at least four times since October, according to public records obtained by
WW. The incidents surrounded Ryan s Nov. 5 vote against cutting the Portland Police Bureau s budget by $18 million. The first dispatch occurred Oct. 28, when protesters arrived at the commissioner s home one week prior to the vote. On Nov. 1, police responded to a report of vandalism there, records say. Then, on Nov. 5, the day of the vote, police were called to an incident labeled as arson and another described as an open investigation. (It is unc
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