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Poor for a Minute

Poor for a Minute

I Took My Kids to Homeless Camps to Help A Little. They Told Me I Look Like Lil Dicky.

Helping others can be hard. It’s also a basic part of being a human being.

14 min readJun 14, 2021

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I Took My Kids to Homeless Camps to Help A Little. They Told Me I Look Like Lil Dicky.

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Poor for a Minute

Portlanders have no fcks left to give about vaccines, the CDC or Dr. Fauci

Including the headline, this blog post contains six f-bombs

9 min readMay 19, 2021

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New long-read story on Narratively tells the tale of “King Chaos, Queen Cricket and One Long…

Out today: A new long-form story about a group of people living in vehicles on the edge of the Portland airport. Here’s how Narratively…

3 min readDec 23, 2020

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New long-read story on Narratively tells the tale of “King Chaos, Queen Cricket and One Long…

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Poor for a Minute

The Village Alternative: Andrew Heben and Tim McCormick Have a Democratic Solution to Houselessness

‘By Thacher Schmid

58 min readDec 15, 2020

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The Village Alternative: Andrew Heben and Tim McCormick Have a Democratic Solution to Houselessness

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Poor for a Minute

Weeping Tears of Joy in my Beer: Biden-as-Harm-Reduction and our Divided Electorate

We watch the pretty colors, the blue and the red, the dizzying backdrops and pretty graphics.

5 min readNov 4, 2020

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Good morning, America, how are you? 27 questions on Portland’s institutional, cultural dysfunction

The chorus of an Arlo Guthrie tune my dad used to sing soars in my head.

15 min readOct 29, 2020

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Talking Protest and Revolution with Chicago 7’s Lee Weiner

A protest leader and Chicago 7 trial codefendant has a new book, ‘Conspiracy to Riot’

13 min readAug 11, 2020

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An interview with Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson about the tenth leading killer of Americans…

Johnson cosponsored the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, to make 9–8–8 a national crisis hotline. Amidst a pandemic and historic…

17 min readJun 22, 2020

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Denzel’s Melody, DACA dance & Disappearing Dad

An immigrant story of trauma and love

8 min readMar 5, 2020

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Denzel’s Melody, DACA dance & Disappearing Dad

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PopMob, Antifa & ‘Sprayboy’

A deeper dive into Portland’s leading antifascist group, a major 2019 demonstration, and related questions and controversies

15 min readFeb 26, 2020

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PopMob, Antifa & ‘Sprayboy’

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Poor for a Minute

Poor for a Minute

We are all poor due to the broken social safety net in the United States, the world’s richest nation. Portfolio, bio, contact: ThacherSchmid.com

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