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Portland’s retro arcade bar is expanding into Vancouver
A retro Portland arcade bar is taking its nostalgic repertoire across state lines. It’s been almost three decades since Ground Kontrol first lit up the city’s gaming scene; 22 years since it relocated to Old Town; and eight years since the hybrid bar-arcade doubled its footprint and launched the 7,000-square-foot flagship it flaunts today.
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A Big One nightmare scenario drives Portland to cut fuel storage along the Willamette
Community activists and environmental groups have worried for more than a decade about the hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel stored in massive, aging tanks on unstable soil along Portland’s Willamette River. On Thursday, after years of public meetings and voluminous public testimony, the Portland City Council is...
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News In Depth: Blanchet House Offers Radical Hospitality While Local Homeless Resources Wane, and the Global Citizen International Digest
Homeless services in the Portland Metro area are in flux -- Mayor Keith Wilson's overnight shelters are running low on funding, and in some cases closing. Federal funding for homeless services are down, and city and county resources are facing cuts, while the count of Multnomah County residents living on the streets continues to climb. On todays' show, we speak with Blanchet House Executive Director Steve Cook about the radical hospitality that Blanchet House offers to homeless Portlanders at their cafe and in their shelters.