Hawthorne Embraces the Kiosk Culture
By Nancy Tannler On one of the last hot Fridays of summer, the Hawthorne Pop Up Plaza and World PARK(ing) Day were celebrated at SE 37th Ave. and Hawthorne Blvd. …
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Accessible and Aging-Ready Housing Shortage
By Nancy Tannler The housing shortage in our cities impacts all social strata of our population. This crisis is becoming especially serious for our growing senior population. In a recent …
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AARP Challenge Grants Awarded to Local Non-Profits
By Nancy Tannler The seventh annual AARP Community Challenge Grant worth $3.6 million is being distributed to 310 quick-action projects across the country. Three of these grants were awarded to …
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Railroad Holdups Frustrate Drivers, Pedestrians and Cyclists
By Nancy Tannler Portland is set to receive $500,000 in federal grant money that will be used to solve some of the railroad crossing issues in inner SE Portland. This …
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Outdoor Shelter Experiment to Open in Hosford/Abernethy
Gideon Street site as of the end of May. Left photo as seen looking south; right photo as seen looking west. By Nancy Tannler On July 1, the Gideon Street …
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Possible Prevention of Alzheimer’s
By Nancy Tannler In the April Brain Awareness lecture series, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) presented an online talk titled, “Is prevention of Alzheimer’s disease possible?” Dr. Aimee Pierce, associate …
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Peaceful Villa Makeover
By Nancy Tannler A big change is underway in the Richmond neighborhood as residents grapple with the redevelopment of Peaceful Villa–situated between SE 46th and 47th Ave., between Clinton and …
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Building a Future for Homeless Youth
By Nancy Tannler There are an estimated 8,200 homeless youth in our state–many of them in need of immediate assistance. The recently completed $9 million interagency funds transfer from the …
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Neighborhood Greenway Expansion Plans
By Nancy Tannler The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) began developing a network of bike boulevards back in the 1980s. They experimented with aggressive traffic-calming projects on streets like SE …
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Angels Watching the City
By Nancy Tannler Even though 44 percent of Americans own some kind of gun, violent crime rates have been on a steady decline since they peaked in 1991. It was …
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Safe Rest Village Worries Neighbors
By Nancy Tannler The proposed Reedway Safe Rest Village is an unpopular plan for a group of Lents residents. The Safe Rest Village approach (bit.ly/SafeRestVillages) is a city-led, federally-funded, alternative …
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Outdoor School Changes Life and Spawns Film
By Nancy Tannler Nothing captivates our attention more than listening to a great story. When Vin Shambry presented his short story, “Outdoor Camp” for The Moth four years ago, his …
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RIP2: A Commitment to Middle Housing
By Nancy Tannler City Council voted unanimously to adopt the Residential Infill Project – Part 2 (RIP2) zoning code amendments, going into effect on June 30, 2022. RIP2 addresses several …
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Preserving the Reservoirs’ Integrity
By Nancy Tannler Residents of Portland have the good fortune to live in a city where the founders set aside a substantial amount of land for public use. They took …
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Reigning in Health Care Costs
By Nancy Tannler The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) held their annual public hearing in April focusing on the impact of high and rising health care costs to Oregonians. The meeting …
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Building a Better Childcare System
By Nancy Tannler What has become known as a “childcare desert” has Oregon parents scrambling to find affordable, reliable places for their children while they are at work. The problem …
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How to Prepare for a Disaster
By Nancy Tannler As you are reading this article, somewhere in the Cascadia Subduction Zone a small tremor will take place. In the past month, there have been 67 quakes …
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Universal Design Principle Advances Equity For All
By Nancy Tannler The 7 Principles of Universal Design were first developed in 1997 by the late Ronald Mace of North Carolina State University, and a group of architects, product …
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Parents Push Back on PPS Proposals
By Nancy Tannler Over a year ago, leaders of Portland Public Schools (PPS) decided to change the system’s education inequities with The Enrollment and Program Balancing proposal. The Southeast Guiding …
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Historic Resource Code Revision
By Nancy Tannler On November 3, City Council listened to six hours of public testimony regarding code amendments purposed by the Historic Resource Code Project (HRCP). The intent of the …
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SNAP Increases Begin in October
By Nancy Tannler A permanent increase to the food stamp program was issued by the Biden administration to help low income households buy more groceries. The new plan will ensure …
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For Heaven’s Sake – 5G Satellites in Space
By Nancy Tannler Speakers Julian Gresser and Ben Levi, from the Healthy Heavens Trust Initiative, recently presented the webinar, Protecting the Heavens – The Legal Implications of 5G Satellites in …
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Free Dental Care for Portland Kids
By Nancy Tannler Dental 3 (D3) was formed in 2014 as a partnership with Medicaid Dental Plans, Coordinated Care Organizations and Community Partners in the Portland metropolitan community. They serve …
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Liveability and Affordability: The Future of Senior Housing in Oregon
By Nancy Tannler In the state of Oregon, there are approximately 440,000 adults over the age of 65. This number is expected to increase by 300,000 in the next 15 …
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Magic in the Mushrooms: Psilocybin as a Healer
By Nancy Tannler June is Brain Awareness month and Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) has been offering a series of lectures on this complicated organ. The lecture Psychedelic Therapy: The …
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Critical Thinking Required
By Nancy Tannler At a Civics for Adults workshop sponsored by the Oregon City Public Library Donna Cohen, M.L.I.S., M.Ed., presented Misinformation, Fake News, and Political Propaganda to a non-partisan …
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Best Friends Forever
By Nancy Tannler Peering out the window on any given Tuesday morning – rain or shine – a contingent of women pull up to my neighbors’ house for coffee. These …
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Ethics of Vaccine Allocation
By Nancy Tannler As all Americans begin to queue up to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, medical ethicists want to be sure to prioritize racial minorities. In Oregon, our first allocations went …
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Shelter to Housing (S2HC) Clarification
By Nancy Tannler In the March edition of The Southeast Examiner the article, “S2HC Offers Remedies for the Houseless” stated, “There will be no camping in natural areas, environmental zones …
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Portland Street Response Launches
By Nancy Tannler The Portland Street Response (PSR) program launched their first four-person team on February 16 in the Lents neighborhood. PSR is an alternative to sending the police to …
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To See or Not To See
By Nancy Tannler Observing the night sky without the background illumination of city lights is a profound experience. Almost everyone has a fleeting memory of seeing the expanse of our …
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S2HC Offers Remedies for the Houseless
By Nancy Tannler The Shelter to Housing Continuum (S2HC) will file an ordinance to adopt the new codes for City Council’s approval this month. This joint effort of the Bureau …
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Measure 101 Promises Addiction Recovery Tools
By Nancy Tannler In November, 58 percent of Oregon voters approved ballot Measure 110. This yes vote is intended to provide the state with more addiction recovery services, partially financed …
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Code Changes Could Relieve Homeless Crisis
By Nancy Tannler Portland City Council declared a housing emergency in October of 2015, to help deal both with the city’s homeless and the affordable housing crisis. That housing emergency …
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Nurses Propel Healthcare Reform
By Nancy Tannler As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, we have all become aware of the important duty front line workers are taking on in this crisis. It has …
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SE Uplift Year in Review
By Nancy Tannler When Leroy Eadie stepped into the position of the Director of SE Uplift Neighborhood Coalition last January, he had no idea business as usual was about to …
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Volunteers Spruce Up Lents Village
By Nancy Tannler On a rainy Saturday morning in November, 20 volunteers showed up at Lents Village Apartments to clean and revitalize the outdoor patio and gardening area. They spent …
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Bartlett vs. The City
By Nancy Tannler When Mark Bartlett first requested access to legal opinions and documents from the City Attorney back in 2015, he never imagined it would take five years, four …
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Winter Healthy Businesses Program
By Nancy Tannler Beginning last month, business owners could apply for free permits to winterize their existing street space or to create one. PBOT, Portland Bureau of Transportation, started the …
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Equalizing the Future: Measure 26-214
By Nancy Tannler Voters in Multnomah County will decide on Preschool for All, Ballot Measure 26-214 in November. Multnomah County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson, District 3, championed this cause along …
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Southeast in the Loop
By Nancy Tannler The Green Loop was approved in 2012 by City Council as part of the Central City 2035 Plan. It is a six-mile, linear park and active transportation …
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Improvement Grants Awarded to Nonprofits
By Nancy Tannler In February of 2019 Portland City Council approved the Enhanced Services District (aka business improvement district), in the Central Eastside; a geographic area from the Willamette River …
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Safe Streets | Healthy Businesses
By Nancy Tannler The people of Portland are not ones to crumble in the face of adversity. Small business has been hit hard during this global pandemic, but they are …
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Portland Street Response Gearing Up
By Nancy Tannler At the July meeting of the Lents Neighborhood Livability Association (LNLA), Tremaine Clayton of Portland Fire & Rescue gave an update on Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s plans …
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Homeless Facility to Open in September
By Nancy Tannler Raven Russell, Director of Data & Major Projects at Helping Hands Reentry Outreach, has good news about their new facility to help Portland’s homeless during COVID-19 and …
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Foreseeing Future Utility Rates
By Nancy Tannler After reading an article in the June edition about the cost of water in the near future, a reader inquired about other utility rates over the next …
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Update on Regulatory Barriers to Development
By Nancy Tannler In the June issue of The Southeast Examiner, we looked at regulatory changes proposed in the Expanding Opportunities for Affordable Housing project, spearheaded by Nan Stark with …
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Where Have All the Insects Gone?
By Nancy Tannler Have you noticed your windshield is no longer splattered with bugs when you return from a road trip? That might make washing easy, but the bad news …
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Taking Another Look at Filtration
Note to readers: The Portland Water Bureau (PWB) contacted The Southeast Examiner after publication of this article in the June 2020 issue with concerns about inaccuracies. Below the original article …
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Removing Regulatory Barriers to Development
By Nancy Tannler Over the past 18 months, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) has been working on a project called Expanding Opportunities for Affordable Housing. The code change …
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Gift Baskets for Foster Families
By Nancy Tannler Mannahouse is the non-denominational church with six campuses in the greater Portland-Vancouver area. The Rocky Butte campus, at NE 92 and Prescott St., has partnered with the …
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You Can Foster a Child
By Nancy Tannler Driving through SE Portland neighborhoods, you might have noticed yard signs encouraging foster care. The Oregon Department of Human Resources (DHS) is the agency that facilitates this …
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Pilot Program to Address Non-Emergency Police Calls
By Nancy Tannler At the Lents Neighborhood Livability Association meeting (LNLA), a presentation was given that explains Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s plans to assist the police and fire departments with …
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PWB’s Pro-Filtration Position Examined
By Nancy Tannler Many people are not aware of the Portland Water Bureau’s (PWB) plan to build a filtration plant or why it is being planned. Critics of PWB’s plan …
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Treating Portland’s Water: Filtration vs. UV and Ozone
By Nancy Tannler On December 4, 2019 City Council Commissioners Amanda Fritz, Nick Fish and Mayor Ted Wheeler voted to proceed with Portland Water Bureau’s (PWB) plans to construct a …
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Building Small Sustainable Structures
By Nancy Tannler The Build Small Live Large Summit was held at PSU in November in response to a national demand for greater diversity in housing options. This was the …
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Local’s Tale of the Pacific Crest Trail
By Nancy Tannler They say the hardest part of any journey is the first step. Fortunately for Duncan Bauerlein, his first step onto the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) was made …
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Helping Oregon’s Veterans
By Nancy Tannler After twenty-two years in the military watching over the lives and well being of her fellow soldiers, Sergeant Tina Kennedy returned to civilian life only to see …
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2019 Spirit of Portland Awards
By Nancy Tannler The 2019 Spirit of Portland Ceremony was celebrated in a grand style. It was held at Redd event space, 831 SE Salmon St. and hosted by Commissioner …
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Meet The SE Examiner’s New Owner
Dear Readers: A couple of months ago, one of our community members, Kris McDowell, saw our “for sale” ad in the July edition of The Southeast Examiner. She responded and …
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Business Walkabout November 2019
The Mud Room By Nina Silberstein Lizzie Koehler and Cole Lendrum searched for a place to practice their craft but the few, existing ceramic studios in the area were all …
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The American Dream
By Nancy Tannler Mia Birdsong spoke at a public conversation/Happy Hour in the newly opened Apano building on 82nd & SE Division St. Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty and Human Solutions …