Arts/Events in the Park

  • Park Behavior Drives Out Business

    A historic city park should be an asset to adjacent businesses. But the city’s failure to address the deterioration of the North Park Blocks has claimed another causality. Remedy Wine Bar announced that it will close on January 30th. In an announcement Remedy writes: We’re sad to announce that Remedy Wine Bar will be closing at the end…

  • Wapato Beats Shanty Towns

    This winter is has been cold, wet and cruel for those forced to live on the streets. One of Portland’s responses has been to authorize the creation of ad-hoc shanty towns. Unregulated homeless camps are growing all over Portland – most recently at North Greeley called Hazelnut Grove. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz recently told KGW  “Every neighborhood in Portland will be…

  • Behavior is Key

    Northwest Examiner Letter to the Editor December 2015 pdf We’re delighted that one respondent plans to open her home to an unfortunate “druggie-type.” However, to the rest of questions, we offer this response. November 2015 pdf The “rubric” we are using is the survey of over 150 NPB visitors this summer conducted by police department community service…