Flipside Hats is Moving
By Gabe Frayne Kori Giudici, the co-owner of Flipside Hats, emphasized the importance of sustainability as she gave me a tour of the remodeled empty space at 7850 SE Stark …
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SE Cafés Gradually Reopen
By Gabe Frayne For many Portlanders, the closing or near-closing of the city’s numerous coffeehouses stands out as the most visible impact on the city’s community life brought about by …
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North Tabor Freeway Noise
By Gabe Frayne Among the inconveniences wrought by the Coronavirus pandemic, one that is ever more bothersome to residents of the North Tabor neighborhood is the increase in freeway noise …
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Post-Pandemic Portland: Will SE Ever Be the Same?
By Gabe Frayne It was a fitting denouement to the year 2020: The Rocking Frog café at the corner of Belmont St. and SE 25th Ave., a mainstay of SE …
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Laurelthirst Pub Perseveres
By Gabe Frayne On a soggy Saturday evening in Portland, a band called The Resolectrics belted out a rendition of Have Mercy from the stage of the Laurelthirst Public House …
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Electric Vehicles Become More Accessible
By Gabe Frayne It appears, finally, the electric car’s moment has arrived. At the Tesla dealership on SW Macadam it is a busy Monday morning and a salesperson explains that …
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Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
By Gabe Frayne Picture, if you will, your last visit to Chicago, New York or any other noisy megalopolis. While visual images may come to mind, sounds are equally evocative. …
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Housing Affordability for the Long-Term
By Gabe Frayne In 1955 the New York state legislature, facing rising urban poverty, enacted the Mitchell-Lama housing program, which allowed private developers to build affordable rental housing in exchange …
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Business Walkabout: PDX Empanadas
By Gabe Frayne The art of inserting a spoonful of meat, vegetables or fruit inside a shell of pastry dough and then baking, frying or steaming it to a delectable …
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Affordable Housing, Part Two
By Gabe Frayne The City of Portland continues to make measured progress in its mission to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income residents frozen out of the booming …
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Portland’s Struggle with Affordable Housing
By Gabe Frayne Jeanne Favini looks back with a mixture of bitterness and embarrassment at the moment she realized she faced an imminent choice between homelessness or moving into her …
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Opportunity Zone Update
By Gabe Frayne The much-hyped but low-horsepower economic tool known as opportunity zones once promised a boon to low-income neighborhoods across the nation. It has little to show thus far …
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