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May 11, 2022
Campaign Finance in Portland, Multnomah County, and Oregon
Piper and Josh chat at length with Thursday from pdx.vote in the first part of a two part series on campaign finance.
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* Shemia Fagan is the current Oregon Secretary of State (in charge of lots of elections stuff).
* ORESTAR is the campaign finance website where entities report their spending.
Transcript of both campaign epsiodes combined
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May 11, 2022
Campaign Finance in Portland, Multnomah County, and Oregon (Part 2)
The second part of Piper and Josh's chat with Thursday from pdx.vote talking at length about campaign finance.
Support Thursday's work by subscribing to pdx.vote for $10 / month Vocabulary #
* Shemia Fagan is the current Oregon Secretary of State (in charge of lots of elections stuff).
* ORESTAR is the campaign finance website where entities report their spending.
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Mar 9, 2022
Media Response to the Normandale Park Mass Shooting
Piper and Josh talk about the media’s response and coverage of the mass shooting that happened at Normandale Park on February 19th, 2022.
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GoFundMe for the victims of the shooting
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GoFundMe for the protestor who stopped the mass shooting
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Thread from a victim of the shooting talking about their experience
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Survivors of a Deadly Attack on a Portland Protest Were Victimized Twice: First by the Gunman, Then by the Police - The Intercept
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Portland police: clash between armed homeowner and protesters sparked shooting - Reuters
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Alleged killer in Portland’s Normandale Park protest shooting identified - OPB
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One Dead in Shooting at Portland Protest Against Police Violence - NYTimes
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@JohnnTheLefty’s thread revealing the shooter’s ID
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Jan 18, 2022
PPB Training Material Cover-up
Piper and Josh talk through the recently revealed Portland Police Bureau protest training material, the cover-up, and the connections to neo-nazis and the far-right.
* The Oregonian’s article on this situation
* The Mercury’s article
* Portland Police Bureau Rapid Response Team Protest Training File
We recorded this episode on Sunday 1/16/2022 and the story continues to break including a statement from the Department of Justice (they aren't happy).
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Jan 2, 2022
Holiday Special
We take a break and a step back for an extra special holiday episode to talk about ourselves, the podcast, and what we're trying to do here.
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Dec 11, 2021
An Introduction to School Boards
A guest joins the show to give us an introduction to the layer conflicts currently happening in local public school systems. Follow their work @SchoolBoardBloc
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Nov 16, 2021
Enhanced Services Districts
Kaitlyn joins Piper and Josh to talk through the ins and outs of Enhanced Services Districts in Portland like Clean and Safe.
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End Clean & Safe Website
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WRAP has a lot of good resources on their website dedicated to BIDs
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WRAP's position paper on sanctioned campsites
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Nov 4, 2021
The Charter Review Part 2
Thursday joins Piper and Josh to talk about Portland's city charter and the currently underway charter review process.
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From Thurday: The Portland Charter Review Process: A Resource Roundup'
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Charter Review on the city's website.
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Charter Review Public Comment From
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Charter Review Commission listening sessions on Nov 13 and Nov 16
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Introductory article on Mingus Mapp's PAC named Ulysses from The Oregonian
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Oct 27, 2021
The Charter Review Part 1
Thursday joins Piper and Josh to talk about Portland's city charter and the currently underway charter review process.
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From Thurday: The Portland Charter Review Process: A Resource Roundup'
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Charter Review on the city's website.
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Charter Review Public Comment From
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Charter Review Commission listening sessions on Nov 13 and Nov 16
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Introductory article on Mingus Mapp's PAC named Ulysses from The Oregonian
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Oct 16, 2021
The City Council
Piper and Josh go long on the four non-mayoral city commissioners in Portland. Hardesty, Ryan, Mapps and Rubio all get a turn.
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Portland Street Reponse 6 Month Report
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Javiar addresses the Forum on Preventing Vandalism
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Sep 25, 2021
The Auditor
Portland has six elected officials and one of those is the City Auditor, an office with 50-60 employees and a nearly ten million dollar budget.
For this episode special guest Rose joins us to talk about the office of the auditor as well as it's current occupant Mary Hull Caballero.
* August 2020 Audit of Portland's Enhanced Service Districts published by Hull Caballero's office
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Sep 18, 2021
The Canvasser
After last episode’s deep dive into the petition to recall Ted Wheeler this time we go direct to the source and ask a few questions of one of the paid signature gatherers currently working to get signatures to recall the mayor.
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Sep 9, 2021
The Recall Campaign
Portland's mayor is facing a recall effort from a new group called Total Recall PAC so for their first episode Piper and Josh talk about the long shot strategy of trying to remove a mayor mid-term.
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CORRECTION: During the episode Josh inccorrectly quoted Total Recall PAC's campaign manager's email address - it's corrected in the transcription and you can email them to get hired to gather signatures at audrey@totalrecallpdx.com Follow Us
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