The plastics you can (and can't) recycle in Portland

$96K for Portland Coffee Influencer

Last year’s U.S. barista champion pulls in up to $9,000 a month from her coffee-influencer business. Portlander Morgan Eckroth’s MorganDrinksCoffee has 6 million followers on TikTok, where she tries to create the “comfort of a coffee shop” on social media. [CNBC]

• Related: Morgan Eckroth talked about Portland coffee with the City Cast Portland podcast. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

Debate Over Police in Schools

Portland Public Schools’ board is debating whether and how police should return to providing security near schools. When a student representative objected to the idea of greater police presence, board member Herman Greene responded: “I know I shouldn’t say this cause I’m a school board member, and I’m an elected official. I don’t really care what the kids say … Your frontal lobe hasn’t even developed yet fully.” [KOIN]

More Drug Possession Tickets

Portland police who have lagged smaller towns in issuing tickets for drug offenses since Measure 110 decriminalized possession of drugs have begun issuing more tickets for drug possession. The law gives people a choice between calling a statewide substance abuse hotline or paying a $100 fine. The Oregonian reports: “The latest statistics show Portland police issued 36 tickets in the first eight days of May, doubling the number of citations officers handed out in April.” [Oregonian]

Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties recently released numbers from this year’s one-night census of people experiencing homelessness. That’s part of a federal requirement to conduct what’s called a point-in-time count.

The news is mixed. Here are a few data points that show progress (and not) in housing the unhoused residents of the metro area.

• The count for the number of people experiencing homelessness rose in Multnomah County (up 20%) and fell in Washington (down 4%) and Clackamas (down 28%) Counties for an overall rise in homelessness in the region.
• But one piece of unequivocally good news: The number of chronically homeless people in the region is down 17% in the last year. That’s important in part because the region has made a massive 10-year investment in supportive services for chronically unhoused people.
• The breakdown in where unhoused residents live may set off a debate about where those tax resources should be directed. Multnomah County has 84% of the unhoused residents, but receives just 45% of the resources from the Metro supportive-housing services measure.
• Multnomah County says the growth in the numbers is because officials did a better job this year of counting, including in making sure that children were tracked. (It’s good news that they’re doing better job, but bad news that there are more folks to find.)

What to make of the numbers?
“I think we see some positive trends,” says Portland State University professor Marisa Zapata, who helped run the count for all three counties. “But I do want to see some more digging, particularly when I look at these racial disparity numbers. We don’t want to lose sight if there is something acutely impacting our communities of color in a negative way.”

Bonnie "Prince" Billy | Monday | 8 p.m.

The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter plays his classics, with an opening set by Oregon folk legend Michael Hurley. [$40, Brooklyn]

Gary Numan | Tuesday | 8 p.m.

The English-born singer-songwriter got his start in a new wave band in the 1970s, but his career now spans decades and has been hailed by the likes of Nine Inch Nails. [$35, Buckman]

The Marsh-Titterington Piano Duo | Wednesday | 12-1 p.m.

This is part of the free third Wednesday lunchtime concert series. [Free, Downtown/Online]

The Definitive Guide to Portland’s World-Class Wine Scene

It’s Oregon Wine Month! Our state has over 700 wineries and nearly a dozen of them are located in Portland. Today on the show, our host Claudia Meza is talking with Eater Portland editor Brooke Jackson-Glidden about why Oregon wine is considered among the best in the world and our favorite places to sip.