Pragmatic Partners & Resources
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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.
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Northwest Fresh Podcast
https://www.nwfreshpodcast.com
Comedy, politics, life from some of the most interesting people in the Northwest. Hosted by Andy Chandler.
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Rational in Portland Podcast
RSS - no app required
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.
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Rose City Reform
Rose City Reform is a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative dedicated to advancing democracy and civic engagement in the City of Roses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.