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Portland Declares a 90-Day Fentanyl Emergency – HotAir

Last month, Gov. Tina Kotek said she would accept the recommendations of a task force put in place over the summer to study how best to help Portland recover from its host of problems. The solutions recommended by the task force were really just common sense. The city would need to hire more police and put an end to open air drug use. In short, Portland would undo some of the things it had done to itself in 2020. That’s when the city voted to defund police and the state voted for Measure 110 which legalized hard drugs, including fentanyl.

Having accepted the plan to correct these failures last month, this week Gov. Kotek and Mayor Wheeler jointly announced a 90-day drug emergency in the city.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler each made an emergency declaration to address the public health and public safety crisis…

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