Tag Archives: Partnership for Safety and Justice

Boy on the Trampoline

I moved to Portland a couple of summers ago, and shortly after settling in, I noticed a repetitive noise coming from a neighbor’s yard. It sounded like a soft, rhythmic bouncing: Squeeja-squeeja-squeeja-squeeja. It would go on throughout much of the day. A tall wooden fence separated my backyard from the neighbor’s. I peered through a […]

The Mice That Didn’t Roar

October is the season of Santa Ana winds, which blow hot and dry through Southern California, making people jittery. “Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks,” wrote Raymond Chandler, in one of his most famous lines. The Santa Anas must not push the meek little wives too […]

Max Williams and the jailbirds

God is smiling on Max Williams. Or at least the media are. After he recently retired as head of the state Department of Corrections, The Oregonian gave Williams a big, wet kiss in a front-page story that said, “Critics of Williams are surprisingly hard to find … .” You wouldn’t know that during Williams’ tenure, […]