🍺 Trump tariffs are hitting Oregon brewers now

No Longer Among the Largest 25 Metro Areas

Austin has boomed since the pandemic, and it’s knocked Portland out of the 25 most populous metro areas of the country. Austin benefited from corporate relocations, including Tesla’s from California — and the real estate building boom that followed. [Oregonian 🔒]

Trump Tariffs Hit Oregon Breweries

Small breweries are bracing for the financial impacts of 25% tariffs on Canadian aluminum used for cans — and on steel used in brewing vats. [KGW]

Addressing Oregon’s Public Defense Crisis

Lawmakers are considering another round of fixes for the shortage of public defenders, a crisis that leaves many defendants and crime victims in limbo. Public defenders have suggested that prosecutors could ease their caseload by notifying them more promptly of case dismissals — instead of waiting till the eve of trials. [OPB]

• Related: Multnomah and Washington County district attorneys have proposed changes that they say would immediately alleviate the problem — including a higher caseload for some public defenders who can take on more. [KGW]

Strict Limits on Police Livestreaming Protesters

Oregon’s appeals court has upheld a ruling that bars law enforcement from livestreaming (and otherwise video-taping) protesters unless a crime has been committed. Portland police livestreamed some of the 2020 protests, and more recently a city video helped exonerate people protesting for a Gaza ceasefire at the Portland State University library. [OPB]

Bridgetown Aikido, on Northeast 28th Avenue at Flanders Street, has a mural by Jessie Weitzel and Brianna Farina — on its building. It isn’t a high-profile location, but a few of you still knew it:

“That's the Bridgetown Aikido mural on the side of Montelupo! It's a great corner — with a vegan empanada spot, a German beerhall, and an Italian pasta spot. Real good corner!” writes reader Max F.

A shoutout to the rest of the readers who got the location: Ami F, Teo k, and Blakers Longacres.

Here’s another piece of public art from across the river. (That’s your hint.)

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