This video was cc’d to Ted Wheeler’s office on July 1st. Content warning for extreme examples of racism, ableism, homophobia/transphobia and xenophobia
Author: Heather-Lynne Van Wilde
Reporter, Editor-in-Chief, owner of the 'pink walker'. Often found in court rooms and making cutting remarks on Twitter and Mastodon. Big fan of Open Source Computing, LGBTQ rights, BLM, Press freedom, and government transparency.
The State of Raindrop Works
This is an editorial. All views and statements made are the personal words of the editorial staff. Please treat this accordingly. If you’re reading this page, most likely you know that the entire Raindrop Works network was offline for a few days this week, with a static front page with a letter from me trying […]
Chandler, a Timeline
Normally, we don’t like dedicating a complete page to a single person, but with the complexity of this story and the varied threads, a lot of people have been confused about what’s happened when. The goal here is to try to create a cohesive timeline to help clear up confusion. My information comes primarily from […]
PBOT & TriMet mismanagement endangers lives of nearly 2 dozen local residents by shutting down transit and stranding them overnight on disabled Max train
The headline is not hyperbole. I was one of them. This is my story. To start with, a bit of background on me. I have disabilities that necessitate me using a mobility device (a walker) when I leave the house for a period of time. I had eligibility through TriMet Lift that essentially gave me […]
Court Wrap-Up, Jan 10, the Transparency Files
As I said Friday night when I posted my last wrap-up, I was going to tackle the government transparency lawsuits separately because of just how much was going on. I promised Sunday, so here we are! The first case we look at is Buel v. Caballero, a case where the City Auditor is getting sued […]
Court Wrap Up, January 8, 2021
It’s been a long month since I last did one of these, and things have definitely been busy. Enough so that it’s been hard to parse everything that’s happened on a local basis. That said, let’s just dive right in. Civil Cases Starting at the top of our list of cases to watch are the […]
PPA Squeals, jumping the gun
In the early days of the protests of 2020, now retired Officer Groshong struck a protester with a vehicle during a declared riot. Because it was now an investigation involving the police, they called on the Salem police department to handle the investigation. Charges from a grand jury were handed down against him, and he […]
A word on Mike, Alan and Chandler
I was criticized in private by a member of the community for daring to use Mike Reinoehl and Alan Swinney in the same tweet as an example of how the justice system uses and hides charging documents (indictments and warrants) in certain cases. The claim was that I was comparing the two directly, and I […]
First Settlement in George Floyd protests
Almost eight months to the day after the death of George Floyd, and in an apparent Christmas win for the city of Portland, the city has finalized the first settlement of an individual allegedly injured by the police as a result of Black Lives Matter protests. The protests brought out people from all stripes of […]
State of Raindrop Works
I wanted to take a few minutes to apologize for the lack of updates this month. I have to admit that I’ve had a bit of a rough go physically, and what energy I’ve had has been put into other projects. Some may not know that Raindrop Works was never intended as a news organization, […]