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Bullpen Blog for a video blog report of Mayor Potter walking out of City
Council on Chavez.
Curtain goes up at RHS after 10 years
By Anna Koehn
As the new school year begins at Roosevelt High School, the Arts
Communication and Technology school (ACT) is already busy planning their spring
theatre production of Oklahoma! They have also just finished their first
production of a one-act comedy, This Is a Test, and have hosted Westview High
School at an improvisation competition as a pre-game event before the first home
football game.
Although this may sound like a typical high school performing arts program,
the success of these events is of great importance to Roosevelt High — this is
the first time in 10 years that the school has had a theatre program.
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Current Issue
The Democracy Issue

RESET America! Internet millionaire
Mike Jingozian launches his bid for the presidency this month. Can he
run a campaign on the web that will change third-party politics in
America?
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‘Is it working?’
Realignment of North Precinct clunky but effective
By Derek Long
“The million dollar question is, is it working? We don’t live in a
perfect world, but it is working. It can be clunky, but the community is
still getting the service they were getting before.” That’s how
Commander Jim Ferraris describes the North Portland Police Precinct
since a restructuring went into effect this July. The highly contentious
issue had stirred community debate last February among North Portland
residents worried about the possibility of losing police coverage.
According to Ferraris, however, the new system has actually been an
improvement on some levels.
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St. Johns
Posada Preview Christmas
event hopes to bring Latinos and NPDX closer together
By Todd Anthony

Residents make gains on MTIP goals
Traffic light longed for looks likely; chicane collapses
By Christian Danielsen

East Slope
State cites sprayer in Linnton investigation
By Cornelius Swart

Hayden Island
Children’s Museum considers carousel
By Anna Walters

Interstate
The Great Resale Route A
guide to North Portland’s recycled retail, part 1 of 2
By Melissa Larabee

North End
Branching out: Four venues vie for North Portland library site
By Rebecca Robinson

Web only: TOPOFF the morning to ye
Emergency drill spreads NETs around Portland
By Anna Koehn

West Albina & Mississippi
‘The most racist city’ One
man’s quest for an African American historic district
By Laura Parisi

Feature Stories
Letters

Local boy does good … pizza
Chris Penner brings in California Pizza firepower
By Vanessa Nix

Curtain goes up at RHS after 10 years
By Anna Koehn

837 Words: Is ‘process’ the
new black? By Roger Anthony

Editorial: A just compromise for Chavez
A new process is needed, but both sides have to be prepared to accept
the results

Chavez controversy coast to coast
Street renaming fight reflects national struggles
By Vanessa Nix, Will Crow, Cornelius Swart

RESETing America Portland CEO
hopes to receive Libertarian nomination in 2008
By Christopher J. Miller, Cornelius Swart

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‘Is it working?’ Realignment
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Interstate V Chavez: Late Breaking News
The Sentinel will have video blog report at 4:30 pm Thursday Nov 15th, and will
be blogging live from the council chambers starting at 2pm.
The Latest news on the Interstate/Chavez Debate go to your
Bullpen Blog.
Chavez controversy coast to
coast
Street renaming fight reflects national struggles
By Vanessa Nix, Will Crow,
Cornelius Swart
For those following the Interstate/Chavez renaming process, the public
controversy, racial tension, breakdown in civil dialogue and emotional debate
may seem like an extraordinary exception to Portland’s usually staid political
culture of compromise and consensus-building. But according to academics
interviewed by the Sentinel, this kind of conflict is par for the course when
cities and towns rename their streets for minority leaders.
“What is happening in Portland is not the exception but sort of the rule,” said
Eastern Carolina University Associate Professor Derek Alderman, an authority in
the field of commemorative renaming. “It [renaming] tends to attract a very
emotional and politically charged controversy.”
The North Portland dilemma escalated during October. Two contentious public
meetings to collect “testimony” on the name change left the Cesar E. Chavez
Boulevard Committee and North Portland’s name-change opponents further
polarized. At an Oct. 25 City Council hearing, Mayor Tom Potter walked out when
three other commissioners sought to find another solution. At press time, both
the renaming and the attempt at compromise were on the council’s November
docket, while the Latino Network was calling on Portland’s people of color to
thwart attempts at compromise and support the renaming of Interstate.
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Posted November 07, 2007
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Portland'
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every third Thursday of the month at 10:00AM on KBOO Community
Radio 90.7FM in Portland highlighting revolutionary
do-it-yourself projects going on around town. You can download and
podcast her shows here.
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