INCLUDES INFORMATIVE VIDEO | With Election Day just weeks away, discover what folks at the Lents Neighborhood Livability Association learned about the City of Portland’s new ‘Ranked-Choice Voting’ system. This is information you really need to know …

INCLUDES TERRIFIC TORTOISE VIDEO | Here’s harrowing tale of ‘Bowser the tortoise’, his big adventure, and his return home …

INCLUDES FAIR-LY FUN VIDEO | If you missed it this year, discover what ‘Parkrose Summer Nights’ offered outer East Portland visitors at this community event …

Discover this East Portland outdoor artists’ market, featuring all sorts of crafted items. The next one is the weekend of August 10-11 …

Week #215 Shooting Report | INCLUDES TWO INVESTIGATIONAL VIDEOS | See these exclusive stories about two different injury shootings this week, in outer East Portland neighborhoods, that didn’t get any attention from other news media …

INCLUDES HONKIN’ FUN & WACKY TUNEFUL VIDEO | Realize why organizers moved the first  day of their two-day band festival to outer East Portland this year, and see what fun it was for both the participants and the audience …

INCLUDES CRASH AFTERMATH VIDEO | Looking at the smashed car after this outer East Portland wreck – unlikely as it seems – they say the driver survived …

INCLUDES TWO UNIQUE VIDEOS | Learn more about the Division Midway Alliance Minority Capacity-Building Program, and how it’s helping outer East Portland people get into business …

UPDATED | Week #214 Shooting Report | INCLUDES INVESTIGATIONAL VIDEO | INCLUDES 16 PHOTOS | With multiple fatal shootings east of the Willamette River, a fatal stabbing in Powellhurst-Gilbert, and a gang shootout in a park – Portland Police detectives have been kept very busy this week …

INCLUDES ENLIGHTENING VIDEO | Here’s a fun summer activity that is attracting lots of outer East Portland families to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry …

INCLUDES CRASH INVESTIGATION VIDEO | This outer East Portland smashup also snarled afternoon traffic on Monday as Portland Police investigated the crash …

Here’s a sneak peek at the large, new center this honored nonprofit organization is establishing here in outer East Portland …