July 18th, 2014

Featuring:

Publisher Melanie Davis and staff reporter Nick Mattos of El Hispanic News and PQ Monthly on the Voz Workers' Rights Education Project, serving immigrants and day laborers, and its choice to refuse consideration for a $75,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (a charity tied to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops) rather than cut ties with ally National Council of La Raza, which supports marriage equality.

Community health worker Abdullah Hafeedh with the Multnomah County Health Department's violence prevention project STRYVE (Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere) on gang violence as a public health issue, socioeconomic contributors to gang affiliation and recent youth organizing around community outreach, in the wake of several recent gang-related homicides and shootings.

News editor Denis Theriault of the Portland Mercury on a controversial proposal making its way through City Hall to extend up to $7 million in unprecedented subsidies to developers who build market-rate "workforce housing" in Old Town Chinatown, Portland's newest urban renewal project.  Historically these fee waivers have been restricted to affordable housing development.