PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The City of Roses got a glowing review from a big paper from “The Big Apple,” and the article found Portland is heading for a new chapter after a rough few years.
Melissa Locker’s profile of Portland for The New York Times has many weighing in on the positives and negatives of the city. KATU talked with one business owner featured in the article, who says the city has a “PR problem” and is far better off than most national representations. Others featured in the piece highlighted the efforts to rebuild the downtown core.
NYT touched on some of the more familiar clichés of quirky Portlandia (including an early reference to the naked bike ride). Yet it delved into more substantive discussions of the impacts of drug decriminalization, modernizing aging architecture, and the national attention of protests at the South Portland ICE facility…