Editors Forward: The roots of this story have been sitting in our draft folder for the last two months now, because we knew there was massively relevant information that was missing. We thought it was one thing, but it ended up being so much more that just came to light today. So I’m going to […]
https://bsky.app/profile/raindropworkspdx.bsky.social Visit us on BlueSky while we navigate what happened on X The short of it is … we’re not sure. We’ve been openly discussing a story that is still going through secondary research before writing about local conservative activist couple RealPDX. Jeff Church, half of the group, was caught out lying about prior criminal […]
The docket and media files had to be stored seperate from the case summary. Please see those documents on our wiki at https://court.raindrop.works/wiki/20CV19618 This case is a long winding and at times confusing case featuring a broad variety of allegations against a number of individuals and organizations, with events starting in 2019 or earlier. Due […]
We wanted to get this out in advance of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing for Benjamin Smith, the Normandale shooter who pled guilty last month. We do plan to run a livestream for the hearing, however, due to a refusal by Judge Marshall to allow us to use the livestream from the courthouse, and no helpful way […]
Opacity, compartmentalization and self-dealing. SWNI seems to be focused on making themselves as insular as possible as the city looks to pay them for it.
To paraphrase a famous video game quote: SWNI. SWNI never changes. This story should have been out days ago, but the longer I’ve worked on this story, the more documents I get, and the more amazed and frustrated I become. In the course of a week I’ve received a distilled version of what many others […]
We’re closing down. Not everything. But our Twitter presence will indeed be shutting down, effective … well, immediately. This post is going to be fairly brief right now, but I will be coming back later and writing down more thoughts on how we got to this point and why. Old Handle New Location @RaindropWorkPDX (Official […]
All court media and documents we have available can be found on our information page here. Today was the first time Benjamin Smith, accused of a murder charge, four attempted murder charges and four assault charges was seen in court since his March indictment. Two previous status hearings had gone on without him due to […]
It’s time for taxpayer-funded organizations doing the public’s business to provide transparency and be recognized for what they are – outsourced government bureaus.