Henry Brannan
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 30, 2026
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How revelations like $450M tax breaks created a powerful opposition movement against Oregon data centers (opens the original)
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A storm of revelations about data centers’ aggressive expansion around Hillsboro and elected officials’ support for them created powerful grassroots opposition this year. That coalition now threatens to topple the area’s longtime development-above-all status quo. The broad movement already notched victories, including pushing officials like Gov. Tina Kotek to roll back their support for data centers and playing a key role in launching a new group of anti-data center Oregon politicians to success
Jobs prevent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians from following health officials' wildfire smoke advice. What do they do? (opens the original)
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Oregon public health officials were nearly uniform with their guidance as wildfire smoke swallowed the Northwest in early August: avoid breathing smoke by staying indoors whenever possible. Particles in wildfire smoke “can cause serious respiratory and circulatory issues, including asthma, cancer, stroke, and lung and heart disease,” the Multnomah County Health Department warned. But for hundreds of thousands of Oregon workers who keep the state running — farm workers, construction workers, garb
Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life (opens the original)
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“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board. Photos of the destroyed mobile camera towers — the type with flashing blue lights you see in parking lots — show the group succeeded not just at vandalizing the towers but also at smashing this summer’s known record for most towers destroyed in a single night. “We found that (it) took us less than 30 seconds to climb the tower and smash
The Portland area’s battle against homelessness is only getting harder. Here’s how the leader of Multnomah County’s homelessness agency is taking on the challenges. (opens the original)
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Nathaniel VerGow stepped into one of the region’s hardest jobs when he was approved to lead Multnomah County’s homelessness agency in April. Then it kept getting harder. Just weeks after the ascendant former social worker started the job in May, he got a letter from a senior Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “I have directed my Office of Special Investigations to investigate the county for fair housing and other civil rights laws violations,”
Study will investigate impacts of Oregon laws that criminalize consensual sex work (opens the original)
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NOTE: If you are experiencing trafficking, sexual violence or domestic violence, you can get help by contacting Call to Safety’s 24/7 phone line at 503-235-5333 to talk with a confidential and non-judgmental advocate. A first-of-its-kind largescale study is now underway looking at how Oregon laws that criminalize consensual sex work are impacting sex workers and survivors of sex trafficking. Project Impact is a partnership between Oregon health research powerhouse, Influents Innovations, and adv
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