Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of our What’s Going On series; a peek into a variety of businesses in the Central Eastside. We hope you’ve enjoyed finding out about all of them.     The streamlined building on the northwest corner of SE Stark & MLK Jr. Blvd. [...]

Day laborers want to own hiring site   VOZ, a non-profit that works and advocates for day-laborers, especially Latinos, is seeking to gain ownership of their hiring center on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. at Davis St., representative Andrea Guerrero told the Kerns Neighborhood Association last month. VOZ has [...]

The contact between Native Americans and the early fur traders was both hospitable and problematic. Neither  of the groups were inclined to change their ways unless it was to their advantage. The Indians found the newcomers rich with new ideas and resources. Fur traders needed help from the natives to [...]

The need for inter-generational struggle and the need for national austerity are built on dubious information and economics. There are many people in all generations that are well off and there are those that endure poverty. The boomers are aging fast. There are 10,000 more of them every day turning [...]

By Nick Blackbourn Smack dab between SE Division and Powell and just west of I-205 sits the Kelly Butte Natural Area, a 22-acre piece of land acquired by the city in 1954. The area forms part of the extinct Boring Lava Field, a volcanic field of around 32 cones all [...]

All proceeds will benefit Friends of Portland Community Gardens, who is hosting the event with the Portland Parks Foundation.  With 47 community gardens in every part of the city, this event is newsworthy throughout the city, and will help the Friends group to help the community gardens in your area: WHAT:     A fundraising screening [...]