Pragmatic Partners & Resources

  • Revitalize Portland Coalition Logo

    Revitalize Portland Coalition

    https://www.revitalizeportland.com

    Revitalizing the Portland-metro region as a welcoming and vibrant community for residents, visitors, and businesses by supporting public policies and collaborative efforts to address the challenges of public safety, homelessness, livability, and economic vitality.

  • Northwest Fresh Logo

    Northwest Fresh Podcast

    https://www.nwfreshpodcast.com

    YouTube

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    Comedy, politics, life from some of the most interesting people in the Northwest. Hosted by Andy Chandler.

  • Rational in Portland Logo

    Rational in Portland Podcast

    RSS - no app required

    Apple Podcasts

    Spotify

    The podcast also serves as a platform for leaders who have evidence-based, solutions-oriented, proven strategies to rescue Portland from its precipitous decline and to educate voters who cannot access dispassionate facts from Oregon’s local media.

  • Rose City Reform Logo

    Rose City Reform

    https://rosecityreform.org

    Rose City Reform is a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative dedicated to advancing democracy and civic engagement in the City of Roses.

  • North Star Civics Logo

    Stumptown Civic Stats

    https://www.stumptownstats.org

    Stumptown Stats is democratizing data to illuminate civic trends in Portland, Oregon. In 2022, Portland voters adopted bold reforms of Portland’s city government and elections.

    They’re starting with historic data about Portland elections and add data sets and new analysis to track how civic life in Portland changes over the coming decade.

  • The Portland Stack

    https://portlandstack.substack.com

    Devin Boone is a writer and reporter, working at the intersection of journalism and art. This Substack is her reporting on housing and homelessness in Portland.

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    Stadiumhood

    https://stadiumhood.substack.com

    Stadiumhood is a self-designated community near the soccer stadium downtown that started gathering over shared concerns in their neighborhood. Their members have been vocal weekly at city and county public meetings to express their concerns about public safety, which always affects low-income housing areas the hardest.

  • Friends of Couch Park Logo

    Friends of Couch Park

    https://friendsofcouchpark.org

    Friends of Couch park is a community-organizing nonprofit that focuses on public safety issues in and around Couch Park and the safe routes to schools. They host family-friendly events to activate the park regularly to try and deter criminal behavior. Members testify regularly to the city, county and state to push for better protections for our shared public spaces and to keep children safe.

  • Recalibrate Portland Logo

    Recalibrate Portland with Max Steele

    https://recalibrateportland.substack.com

    Max Steele is a small business owner and community advocate for safe public spaces. A personal trainer by trade, his job offers flexibility to attend meetings and events related to local politics and he shares notes and personal opinions here.

Local Government Resources

City of Portland Impact Reduction Live Tracker

This interactive map is in ‘layers’ so you have to click on the icon that looks like 3 pieces of paper on the top right of the map to see reported websites. The default is set to clean campsites. There’s other data, including pounds of garbage removed.

Find Your Representative

Use these links to find your representatives at all levels of Oregon government. You have a different district for city, county, metro, state and federal legislators.

Portland City District Finder

Multnomah County District Finder

Metro Council District Finder

Oregon State District Finder

Congressional District Finder