Allan Classen
The Trash Queen versus Republic
Being Trash Queen of the Pearl District is not as regal as it sounds. Sally Mize walks her neighborhood streets 10-15 hours a week...
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Allan Classen
- Sep 30, 2021
- 4 min
Controversies surround once quiet coalition
C Consultant steps back, advises organization to hire far-ranging team of advisers The coalition of inner Westside neighborhood...
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Allan Classen
- Sep 29, 2021
- 4 min
Goose Hollow activist offers alternative to Hardesty
Vadim Mozyrsky, whose family came to the United States in 1979 to escape religious persecution in Ukraine, has found a lot to like in his...
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Allan Classen
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
No exceptions allowed
Everyone at meetings of the Neighbors West Northwest neighborhood coalition is now expected to state their personal pronouns. The...
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Allan Classen
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
Development Map - Oct. 2021
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Allan Classen
- Sep 2, 2021
- 6 min
Vision quest cloaks personal attack
Neighbors West Northwest staff have taken charge of the neighborhood coalition program, initiating a broad social equity mission...
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Allan Classen
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
Wild late-night shootout barely registers at City Hall
The shootout at Northwest 22nd and Hoyt streets hurled more lead around a quiet residential corner than did Doc Holliday and the gang at...
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Allan Classen
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
September 2021 Development Map
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Allan Classen
- Aug 30, 2021
- 3 min
Editorial: Trying isn't enough
City Commissioner Dan Ryan faced a figurative fastball down the heart of the plate at a gathering of 100 Westside neighborhood activists...
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Allan Classen
- Aug 5, 2021
- 5 min
Street dining rules
Who benefits when there are no fees and no enforcement of street cafés? With the city’s full blessing, Portland restaurants have built...
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Allan Classen
- Aug 3, 2021
- 6 min
Where is our parks money?
A little-known system collects revenues here, spends them elsewhere An arcane taxing term has become so vital to Northwest District...
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Allan Classen
- Aug 3, 2021
- 3 min
The masters of the master plan
August editorial column According to the citizens picked by Portland Parks & Recreation to support the bureau’s redesign of the South...
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Allan Classen
- Aug 2, 2021
- 1 min
August 2021 Development Map
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Allan Classen
- Jul 1, 2021
- 4 min
Where’s street response?
As disorder swirls out of control, core neighborhoods wonder why mental health project is relegated to city’s edge By Allan Classen Pearl...
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Allan Classen
- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
In the Dark Night
By Stan Penkin Clad in black from head to toe with some carrying black umbrellas, the “direct action marchers” gathered at Fields Park...
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Allan Classen
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
Suburban slough-off
City commissioner trivializes woes in Sylvan heights By Allan Classen As the new city commissioner of Portland’s neighborhood system, Jo...
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Allan Classen
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
July 2021 Development Map
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Allan Classen
- Jun 3, 2021
- 5 min
A variance for Vanessa
City Council members assumed Café Nell owner would be neighborly By Allan Classen One need not be Machiavelli to see the advantage of...
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Allan Classen
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Hardesty sees conspiracy to fund cops
By Allan Classen City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty unloaded a volatile police conspiracy theory on a small audience of local residents...
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Allan Classen
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
The civil war at Civic Life
June 2021 Editorial I have written more stories and editorials about the sorry saga at the Office of Community and Civic Life and its...
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