Category Archives: Local government

Yet Another Unnecessary Death

Posted on May 11, 2017 by M. Meo

So far we have only the police story, which goes as follows. May 10, 2017 23:10 The Portland Police Bureau and East County Major Crimes Team are in the early stages of an officer-involved shooting investigation that occurred early Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Mass Incarceration Here and Now

Posted on March 15, 2017 by M. Meo

  My friend Shane Greene, whom I’ve known since we were locked up in Multnomah County Jail last year for months together, came to visit me the other day; he’s been out of state prison for three months now, and … Continue reading →

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What If A Coup Takes Place

Posted on February 1, 2017 by M. Meo

Your Intrepid Reporter, dear reader, will preface this commentary, as he has done in the past, with the notice that it constitutes the opinion of one who has pled guilty to violating a Restraining Order, taken out by his wife. … Continue reading →

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Let’s Unpack “the Personal Is Political”

Posted on January 11, 2017 by M. Meo

  This morning brought, on the usual disreputable websites, the appearance of another disapproving look, this time by a military historian, of the past two Presidential administrations.  Andrew Bracevich the author of America’s War for the Middle East: A Military History, in … Continue reading →

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Portland Police Shoot Another Miscreant

Posted on December 9, 2016 by M. Meo

The Portland Police killed another suspect Tuesday. He had shot at them when they arrived, and missed. Presumably they then told him to come out of the building from which he had fired the shot. He did. He carried a … Continue reading →

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City of Portland Plays to Crowd, but Opposes Accountability

Posted on December 3, 2016 by M. Meo

Our mayor, Charlie Hales, ran on a platform, four years back, of police accountability.  Once he was elected he took personal control of the municipal police as its Commissioner. Since then Mr Hales has had an almost perfect record of … Continue reading →

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Identity Politics

Posted on November 29, 2016 by M. Meo

I have a bumper-sticker critique of the identity politics that produced a Democratic Party loss, with the entire political Establishment united in favor of the Democratic Party nominee, in the recent election earlier this month. That is, Identity Politics Is … Continue reading →

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We Were Never Data-driven

Posted on October 31, 2016 by M. Meo

  I’m retired, after more than twenty years full-time teaching in high school, in Portland Public Schools.  During that time, and with greater and greater urgency toward the end of my tenure, we were continually beseeched, as teachers, to do … Continue reading →

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David Lee Fry and Me

Posted on October 30, 2016 by M. Meo

  I was incarcerated for about a month in Multnomah County Jail this summer, awaiting trial for trespassing against Fred Meyer.  While there I met David Fry, one of those armed occupiers of the Malheur federal bird sanctuary.  The last … Continue reading →

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On the Streets of Eugene

Posted on October 22, 2016 by M. Meo

My son Michael Kepler Meo attended one of the Conversations on Race we have here in Portland, one in which the Albina Ministerial Alliance on police accountability and the Chief of Police, along with several of his deputies, appeared.  He … Continue reading →

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