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Henry Brannan

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Portland, Vancouver
As seen in: Street Roots, Yahoo News, PBS NewsHour, The Seattle Times, Yahoo, The Spokesman-Review, Stars and Stripes, Government Technology, Tacoma News Tribune, The Columbian, Oregon Public Broadcasting and
Covers:  The following issues IN PORTAND AND OREGON ONLY: Homelessness, housing, poverty, politics, policing and health.
Investigative reporter @StreetRoots. All about people and our needs. Signal: henry.3210 + henry@streetroots.org Past: WA newspapers, VA NPR stations & PBS News.

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Investigative reporter at Street Roots.

All about people and our needs. henry@streetroots.org

Past: Newspapers via Washington's state-funded Murrow News Fellowship, Virginia NPR stations via Report for America and the PBS NewsHour.

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D.C. phases out its COVID-era hotel housing program for homeless people

D.C. phases out its COVID-era hotel housing program for homeless people

At the start of the pandemic, we were all urged to stay at home and avoid crowds. But for homeless people, pa…

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Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility

Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility

U.S. authorities reported that there have been more than two million apprehensions at the southern border in …

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U.S. military focuses recruiting efforts on video-game playing teenagers

U.S. military focuses recruiting efforts on video-game playing teenagers

On the heels of the pandemic shuttering traditional recruiting methods and a historic recruiting slump, the U…

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U.S. military focuses recruiting efforts on video-game playing teenagers

U.S. military focuses recruiting efforts on video-game playing teenagers

The U.S. Military is intensifying its efforts to meet young people where they spend their time: online and on…

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Long-term effects of Oregon's early COVID-19 response

Long-term effects of Oregon's early COVID-19 response

Community leaders and health officials point to distrust, an incompetent early pandemic response and the pred…

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Salem man held in jail 'on the idea of future crimes he might commit'

Salem man held in jail 'on the idea of future crimes he might commit'

Salem man held in jail despite no criminal charges is clear violation of civil rights, attorneys say.

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How revelations like $450M tax breaks created a powerful opposition movement against Oregon data centers

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By Henry Brannan Verified
| Street Roots
A storm of revelations about data centers’ aggressive expansion around Hillsboro and elected officials’ support for them created powerful grassroots opposition this year. That coalition now threatens to topple the area’s longtime development-above-all status quo. The broad movement already notched victories, including pushing officials like Gov.
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Rented e-scooters, e-bikes increasingly threaten blind Portlanders as safeguards fail

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By Henry Brannan Verified
| Street Roots
Editor’s Note: You can report e-scooters and e-bikes parked blocking the sidewalk by calling 311, emailing 311@portlandoregon.gov, using PBOT’s online reporting form or filing an ADA Title II complaint. Rod Barker was excited when he heard rentable e-scooters were coming to Portland in 2018. “I thought, ‘Oh, here’s an alternative mode of transportation that doesn’t take gas,’” he said.
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Jobs prevent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians from following health officials’ wildfire smoke advice. What do they do?

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By Henry Brannan Verified
| Street Roots
Oregon public health officials were nearly uniform with as wildfire smoke swallowed the Northwest in early August: avoid breathing smoke by staying indoors whenever possible. Particles in wildfire smoke “can cause serious respiratory and circulatory issues, including asthma, cancer, stroke, and lung and heart disease,” the Multnomah County Health Department warned.
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