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One of the thousands of Twitter employees laid off by new CEO Elon Musk is an alleged Antifa protester, according to a report. Eric Shamow, a site reliability engineering manager who attended BLM protests in Oregon in 2020, was among those the company let go, The Post Millennial reported. Shamow was among the rioters who took over downtown Portland and clashed with police during violent protests a...

Portland’s defund the police commissioner, Jo Ann Hardesty, reportedly was ousted during Tuesday’s election by challenging political newcomer Rene Gonzalez.  Hardesty, a staunch progressive, conceded to lifelong Democrat Gonzalez on Wednesday.  "Earlier today, I offered my congratulations to Mr. Rene Gonzalez," Hardesty said in a statement provided to KOIN by campaign manager Joseph Sant...

CLAIM: The United States is on the verge of running out of diesel fuel. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While data from the Energy Information Administration shows that the U.S. has about a 25-day supply of diesel, the country will not actually run out of fuel soon, experts confirmed to The Associated Press. This figure doesn’t account for ongoing diesel production. THE FACTS: As of Oct. 28, the most rece...

Health officials are warning of a terrifying flesh-eating drug which is being increasingly found laced into heroin, cocaine and other narcotics - leading to a soaring number of drug overdoses across the country. Doctors say xylazine - a muscle relaxant intended for large animals like horses - has been appearing in the illicit drug scene in cities across the US, joining fentanyl as one of the prima...

Portland Public Schools keeps its fleet of yellow minibuses in the yard of an old grade school overlooking the Columbia River. The yard filled up long ago. Buses overflow into a nearby lot behind a city park. The lots are secluded. Perfect for thieves, who for years have raided the buses for parts. But it’s never been as bad as it is now. As vandalism skyrockets, emergency repairs are eating into...

Within a 24-hour period this week, a homeless encampment at a Portland, Oregon, park was removed, and a construction crew showed up to build pickleball courts and a skate ramp in its place.  Homelessness has skyrocketed in Portland, most notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than two years, tents have lined a two-block area of Laurelhurst Park, according to Willamette Week.  On Monday, th...

Even though the pace of violent crime in Portland, Oregon, has remained ahead of the pace nationwide, there’s just one problem: Officers with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) are apparently nowhere to be found. “It’s like they almost disappeared,” local small business owner Loretta Guzman told Fox News. “A lot of people feel really unsafe. They’re angry, they’re sad, they’re mad. They feel helples...

Portland City Council voted Thursday to approve a plan to ban unsheltered homelessness and create mass outdoor homeless encampments across the city.  The package of five resolutions, introduced by Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Dan Ryan two weeks ago, outlines a number of aspirational and unfunded plans to address homelessness and housing needs.  The initial proposal aimed to create up to...

Portland is one of at least four cities - among America’s 50 largest cities - without a team of police officers dedicated to proactive traffic enforcement during the entirety of its shifts, a KATU investigation has found. Our reporting found at least 37 agencies in those cities have either a dedicated traffic enforcement team or patrol officers who provide proactive traffic enforcement during thei...

A Baltimore man who pleaded guilty to torching his ex-girlfriend’s home said he was surprised by a plea deal he received, saying it sends the wrong message to criminals in the city.  "I was just charged with 18 different counts, that was dropped to 10, that was dropped to one. When I shouldn’t be out right now. I disrupted somebody’s life. I traumatized somebody because of how I felt in a sit...

Accusations and denials continue to fly in the Portland City Council race between incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty and challenger Rene Gonzalez after Gonzalez’ campaign headquarters was vandalized for the second time in a month. The Gonzalez campaign said recent comments Hardesty made calling his staff Republicans has incited political violence toward them. The Gonzalez campaign sent Hardesty’s office a...

As Portland residents have started speaking out against far-left politicians over the homeless crisis and crime surge fueling an exodus from the city, a local real estate broker is describing the difficulty of offloading these for-sale properties. "A lot of these spaces now are occupied by camps, and a lot of the homeowners now have changing circumstances," Dwell Realty broker George Pat...

Portland car theft victims are banding together to take on the crime crisis by volunteering to help reunite people with their stolen vehicles. "I started a Facebook group called PDX Stolen Cars and it took wings of its own from there just through word-of-mouth," volunteer organizer Titan Crawford said on Monday's "Fox & Friends." Crawford, who told Steve Doocy he found...

After years of unsanctioned camping, the City of Portland, Oregon, has cleared the Big Four Corners Natural Area. KATU was there when cleanup crews pulled in two weeks ago and tracked the progress for days. They pulled out more than 150 stolen cars, tons of trash, and even live pigs from the area. It was one of the most extensive camp cleanups in the city's history, and the damage left behind...

Sign Up For Exclusive Episodes At: https://reasonabletv.com/ LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople Local officials were set to gather on Wednesday in San Francisco's Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed until 2025.  But...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s 3:55 on a Thursday afternoon in the Mall 205 parking lot. I’m watching through the front windshield of our white Ford Explorer as unsuspecting shoppers zip in and out of the Target store and nearby Home Depot.  The shopping mall, located near Interstate 205 in Southeast Portland, attracts a mix of construction workers, everyday shoppers and homeless people from nearby encampm...

According to a new report from the Seattle Auditors Office, there has been an alarming rise in deadly methamphetamine overdoses, leading city officials to ask what can be done to stop it. The annual number of overdose deaths from meth has gone from 98 per year to 365 per year over the last five years. So far in 2022, there have been 318 meth overdoses in Seattle. Overdose, suicide, homicides near...

Apple has started work on a major overhaul of its downtown Portland store, with a new design that appears more resistant to vandalism. But people familiar with the company’s plans say work won’t be done until sometime after the holidays. Apple’s downtown store has been obscured by imposing metallic fencing since February 2021. The fences protect the store’s signature tall, glass panels from vandal...

Data released by the city of Seattle reveals that homeless encampments saw a good percentage of shots fired in 2022. According to the latest update from the One Seattle Homelessness Action Plan , nearly 20% of all citywide shootings/shots fired through September were connected to an unauthorized encampment or a homeless person. Out of 573 reports of shootings and shots fired, the city states that...

Citing lawlessness and “chaos,” Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith announced on his personal LinkedIn page yesterday that he has closed the company’s sole San Francisco retail location. “As of today, we are closing the store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety for our team,” Smith wrote on October 18. “Our store is hit by organized theft rings several times per week.” Support the show 🛍️ Merch...

Portland's Democratic mayor has finally announced plans to shut down any unsanctioned homeless camps in the city - as a high number of squalid shanty towns and rising crime continues to plague the area.   Ted Wheeler condemned Portland's homeless problems as a 'vortex of misery,' and shared his ideas on how to qualm the issue, with residents already turning their backs on the c...

A supervisor from the Portland Bureau of Transportation said in an email this week that parking enforcement agents from the city have avoided solo patrols of Northwest Broadway in Old Town out of concern for the safety of the bureau’s agents. “Unfortunately, over the past several weeks, this location, in a several block span, has been placed on a ‘Do Not Enforce’ list for the safety of our officer...

11 months ago, the so-called Lawn Mower man — Charles Woodard – was terrorizing Ballard neighbors. Ear-splitting machinery, round-the-clock music, and yard equipment at his makeshift camp spilled onto the sidewalk. Three vehicles and two wooden sheds packed with lawnmowers littered the landscape. Despite neighbors’ repeated pleas to city leaders for help and shelter placement for Woodward, they we...

Starbucks shop in the heart of the Pearl District will close permanently come Friday, Oct. 21. The closure is posted on the coffee shop’s door at the corner of Northwest 11th Avenue and Lovejoy Street. Reached by phone and then in person on Monday, two baristas confirmed the impending closure to WW, saying management told them the closure is due to safety concerns. Starbucks’ corporate office did...

King County will not expand a homeless shelter in Seattle's SODO neighborhood after pushback from residents and business owners. The proposed expansion near the Chinatown-International District would have added space for an additional 150 people at Salvation Army's Lighthouse Shelter which currently has 270 beds. If approved by the King County Council, money for the expansion will be use...