City Cast Portland
🚓 A City Hall fight over police accountability
February 25, 2025 · — Rachel Monahan
Good morning! One quintessentially Portland-weird event is making its comeback this summer 🚲 After a year’s hiatus, the World Naked Bike Ride is now scheduled for July 26.
What's CITY Talking About?
1 New Tree for Every Portlander
The city is weighing a plan to expand the number of trees in Portland, by planting 660,000 in areas with less shade, including the outer east side. But also the city is looking to take over planting and maintenance of street trees — currently the responsibility of homeowners. [Oregonian]
Fight Over Police Accountability
City Councilor Sameer Kanal is pushing for greater police accountability. He’s proposed relatively small changes to the Community Police Oversight Board that nonetheless have the police union up in arms. [Willamette Week]
OSU Researchers Fired
At least 19 federal agricultural researchers working with Oregon State University — in Corvallis, Newport, Hood River, Pendleton, and Burns — have been fired as part of the federal cuts. They mentored graduate students and focused on Oregon-relevant subjects such as blueberry breeding, oyster production, and rangeland ecology. [OPB]
It’s almost like the malice and pettiness of wanting to take down the Oregonian left him exposed.
Reckoning for Robert Pamplin Jr.
Once one of Oregon’s wealthiest individuals, Robert Pamplin Jr. recently settled a federal investigation into his raiding of his employees’ pension fund. Oregon Journalism Project reporter Nigel Jaquiss explains the downfalls of Pamplin’s finances and reputation. [City Cast Portland 🎧]
What To Do
Tuesday, Feb. 25
- 🔨 Intro to Electrical: Safety and Simple Repairs | 5:30 p.m. | $95 | ReBuilding Center (North Mississippi Avenue)
- 🎥 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Black Film History series) | 7 p.m. | $10 | Clinton Street Theater
- 📚 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | 7 p.m. | Free | Powell’s City of Books (Pearl District)
- 🎶 Rogê (Portland Jazz Festival) | 8 p.m. | $45.30 | Mississippi Studios
- 🎵 Little Stranger | 8 p.m. | $36.41 | Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, Feb. 26
- 🦢 Wednesday Morning Bird Walks | 8:15 a.m. | Free | Tryon Creek
- ✏️ Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write (writing group) | 5:30 p.m. | Free Admission | BOLD Coffee & Books (Goose Hollow neighborhood)
- 🎵 Women Composers of the Great American Jazz Songbook | 7 p.m. | $5+ (pay what you can) | Lincoln Hall (PSU)
- 🎶 Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto (Portland Jazz Festival) | 8 p.m. | $46.25 | The Old Church
- 🎶 JD Simo (Portland Jazz Festival) | 8 p.m. | $48.25 | Alberta Rose Theatre
Thursday, Feb. 27
- 🌲 Stories of the Boreal Forest | 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | $20 (free with admission) | OMSI
- 🍸 Craft Mixology Class | 5:30 p.m. | $85 | Straightaway (Buckman neighborhood)
- 🎥 Dahomey (Cascade African Film Festival) | 7 p.m. | Free | PCC Cascade
- 🎵 Reverend Horton Heat | 8 p.m. | $47.44 | Crystal Ballroom
- 🎶 Mel Brown B3 Organ Group (Portland Jazz Festival) | 8 p.m. | $28.25 | Jack London Revue (Downtown)
- 🎥 Animated Oscar Nominated Short Films | 6:15 p.m. | $14 | Hollywood Theatre
📲 Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo (D-Ore.), at 28 one of the youngest electeds in city history, went viral for attacking fellow Democrats, including newly elected U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum, who voted for President Trump-backed legislation to fast-track deportations.
Teen Vogue offered Morillo a chance to lay out her proposal for resisting the Trump agenda.
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