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From the Portland Mercury, October 22, 2014 As expected, the Portland City Council tonight has agreed to pursue a narrowly framed, but potentially troublesome appeal of the city’s police reform agreement with the US Department of Justice—casting aside advocates’ and lawyers’ insistent concerns that doing so would shatter their sense of trust in city hall. […]
The 911 Files: The Portland-Area Addresses that Keep Cops, Firefighters, and Paramedics Coming Back—Again and Again From the Portland Mercury, January 16, 2014 Life is good when simply walking outside doesn’t mean having to remember to carry a gun—you know, just in case. At the very least, it’s a sign things are getting better. I’d […]
By Melissa Binder and Andrew Theen, The Oregonian, Oct. 31, 2013 Neighbors who oppose the fences lining Vista Bridge had one thing to say to city officials Thursday: we told you so. The city installed 9-foot-high suicide-prevention fences on both sides of the historic Vista Bridge in Southwest Portland in August. Since then two people […]
By Dirk VanderHart, The Portland Mercury, Sept. 4, 2013 When local nonprofit Lines for Life persuaded Portland City Council a year ago to dole out $150,000 for expanded suicide hotline services, some in the mental-health community had concerns. Wouldn’t the organization increasingly be in competition with Multnomah County’s existing crisis call center? Why do we […]
MHAP does not endorse the barriers, a cosmetic non-remedy which sidesteps, at great expense, the real problems and needs of people in suicidal crisis. If it surprises you we’re not on board — being a mental health organization and all — read more about why. — Eds. By Sara Roth, KGW.com, August 6, 2013 Installation […]
From KOIN.com, July 25, 2013 Robert Waltrip and Rachelle Rock are still dealing with emotions that are incredibly raw. They think about things their daughter won’t experience. “Her first prom dance, her first date,” Robert Hamblin-Rock said. “Makes a father very angry, very, very angry. I’d do anything to bring her back, anything.” Marina Hamblin-Rock […]
By Reggie Aqui, KGW Newschannel 8, July 19, 2013 Despite objections from some Goose Hollow neighbors, Commissioner Steve Novick says there is nothing stopping the city from putting up a nine-foot-tall fence on the Vista Bridge, the span many know as “Suicide Bridge.” “Once I learned it was legally possible to put up a temporary […]
Temporary suicide barriers for Vista Bridge won’t go up until next month, and yesterday the interim was marked by tragedy when a man jumped to his death. It was the fourth suicide from the bridge this year. Commissioner Steve Novick and others are asking for volunteers to receive crisis training, then walk the bridge in […]
By David Stabler, The Oregonian, June 7, 2013 A 15-year-old Beaverton girl jumped to her death from Vista Bridge on Wednesday, the third suicide from the historic span this year. That equals the highest number of Vista Bridge suicides in any year in the past decade. The 1926 bridge, which spans MAX tracks and busy […]
By Ryan Kost, The Oregonian, June 3, 2013 After months of keeping all of the city’s bureaus for himself, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales reassigned them late Monday, doling out major assignments to every commissioner while scrambling them considerably from where they were before he took office. With the budget approved last Wednesday, Hales was finally […]
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