I’m reaching out to this community with a heavy heart, searching for understanding and guidance. How does one rebuild hope and trust after enduring layers of betrayal and harm? When someone has been ...

I’m a lesbian in a big city. My partner of five years is the most wonderful woman I’ve ever met, and we are deeply in love, ...

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the Trash Report, coming in one day late this week because I was off work yesterday for MLK ...

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He's a carpenter and he's on the apps and he's got a kid and he must think he's really something great! But a 40-something year old man ghosting people for dates in PDX? He's not hot enough for this ...

It isn't anything actually about his actions or his personality. It's this: He's 홖활홞홣활. Finally, somebody out there my age; who actually looks like they are my age and has been slugging it out through ...

Multnomah County and Oregon state election results show that the count of those voting for Harris was less than the number voting for Biden in 2020—41 thousand fewer votes at county (367,249 in ’20 ...

Why do the birds continue to scream into the void, their voices broken and fragmented, dancing through the air like desperate whispers? Why do the stars flicker, cold, distant—alive above us? Don't ...

Among the many changes to Portland’s city government, one of the most consequential—for both councilors and members of the ...

I am finding it incredibly difficult to believe that more than seventy-million adult Americans identified with and voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I will readily admit that Democrats have ...