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Guest Article: Why Portland needs a safe passing distance ordinance

Advocacy, Editorial, Front Page, Infrastructure, Legal, Media, News, Opinion

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Christopher Heaps The article below was written by Christopher Heaps. Heaps is a Sellwood resident who rides his bike daily to his job as a lawyer with Stoel Rives in downtown Portland. You might remember Heaps as the lawyer who garnered a headline or two for successfully carrying out the “citizen-initiated citation” process. We wrote … Read more

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Guest article: The Citation Odyssey

Advocacy, Front Page, Legal

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Christopher Heaps The article below was written by Christopher Heaps. Heaps is a lawyer with Stoel Rives who has volunteered to carry out the “citizen-initiated citation” process (as outlined in ORS 153.058) to retroactively cite Lisa Wheeler (the woman who hit Siobhan Doyle at N. Interstate and Greeley back in October) for “failure to yield”. … Read more

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