From The Oregonian, September 19, 1987 Trying to preserve a delicate truce between business interests and social service agencies, Mayor Bud Clark is trying to stop Baloney Joe’s planned move to Old Town. The Burnside Community Council, which runs the Baloney Joe’s emergency shelter at the east end of the Burnside Bridge, has purchased a […]
Eds. Note – In retrospect this article shows the power of the “business community” over Portland’s mayor to oppress the homeless. Within days Stoops was outed as a homosexual by the Willamette Week and threatened with prosecution for raping a teenager – who quickly disappeared and later denied Stoops had done anything wrong. Seeing a […]
From The Oregonian – September 17, 1987. Not available elsewhere online. The normal bustle was gone from the wards at Dammasch State Hospital on Wednesday, replaced by the hustle of administrators filling in as psychiatric aides and food service workers. As the first day of the Oregon Public Employees Union strike got under way, line […]
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