🫶 A coffee shop’s $184K fundraiser to fill in for food stamps

Teachers Now Patrol To Watch for ICE

Abandoning previous administrations’ policy to leave schools alone, immigration agents have shown up at schools in Woodburn, Wilsonville, and Gresham. Earlier this month a parent was also detained 100 feet from a Hillsboro elementary. Teachers at Eastwood Elementary and J.W. Poynter Middle School in Hillsboro are now patrolling the neighborhood each morning to alert the community to ICE agents. [OPB]

Layoffs at an Oregon Company

The Oregon-based nonprofit health insurer PacificSource is laying off 325 employees across the Pacific Northwest. Rising health costs and cuts to Medicaid have led to financial losses. [Oregonian]

• Related: Wells Fargo announced major layoffs for the day after Christmas: 444 workers, mostly in Hillsboro and Salem (as well as 34 in Portland), will lose their jobs. The company has laid off 1,200 workers in Oregon since December of last year. [Oregonian]

Inside the Portland City Archives

The city of Portland’s archivist Madeline Moya has a paper trail capturing every major and minor movement of our city’s history, from mayoral memos to hand-drawn maps. That means the archives hold the receipts for everything the city has ever done, in public or private. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

The latest additions to the Portland dining scene include a bright, joyful museum cafe and a tasty interloper from Texas:

🥖 Coquelico | at the Portland Art Museum's Mark Rothko Pavilion (Downtown)

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., beginning next week (currently, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.).

The French-inspired bistro, from the owners of the fancy eastside market Providore Fine Food, opened this month. Coquelico — named for the French word for a reddish-orange poppy flower — is an enjoyably bright space.

Go for: the Rothko-inspired cake. It's a standout for how it looks (maybe the prettiest cake in town), but it's going to taste pretty familiar.

Stay for: lunch with a friend — a crepe, a sandwich, salad, or something with brie.

Return for: a stopoff during a trip to the new Rothko wing of the Portland Art Museum once it opens to the public Nov. 20.

🥓 Lil’ Barbecue | at Tough Luck, 1771 NE Dekum St. (Woodlawn)

Hours: Monday - Thursday, 3 p.m. - 11 p.m., Friday, 3 p.m. - midnight, Saturday, noon - midnight

Sunday, noon - 11 p.m.

Portland has plenty of excellent barbecue on offer, but is now home to an outpost of a Michelin-starred Texas barbecue spot! It opened just two weeks ago.

Go for: the brisket, of course.

Stay for: the chicken thighs (not on the original Austin, Texas, menu). They’re a hit, says Portland Monthly. Also on the menu is something for the vegans: beet ends.

Return for: more Texas barbecue. The menu also includes tater tots, a cheeseburger, sausages, and more.

🍲 Alma | 5237 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. (King neighborhood)

Hours: Thursday - Monday, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

One of just a few Balkan restaurants in town, Alma expanded on the city's offerings when it opened back in June. With a start as a pop-up, the brick-and-mortar restaurant blends the food of the Pacific Northwest with Balkan and Turkish cuisine. Go ready to share a bunch of tapas.

• Related: Alma and Aji Fish Butchery are offering a six-course meal on Nov. 13. [Open Table]

Go for: a taste of something different.

Stay for: tomato čorba, a spicy take on tomato soup.

Return: a Monday night date. Yep, it’s a rare spot open for dinner early in the week.

Police Surveillance Files, Racist Maps, and Other Secrets Hidden in the City Archives

The Portland City Archives are home to a paper trail capturing every major and minor movement of our city’s history, from mayoral memos to hand-drawn maps. They have the receipts for everything the city has ever done, in public or private. City Archivist Madeline Moya talks about what’s inside this archive.