Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt and challenger Nathan Vasquez locked in tight election battle as drug use, crime distress voters

Standing at their doorsteps in leafy eastside neighborhoods, resident after resident spoke of worries both familiar and daunting:

Persistent crime, a downtown still stumbling four years after the outset of the pandemic, small businesses reeling from repeat vandalism, homelessness and public drug use that turned pockets of the city into open-air fentanyl markets.

Stories by Noelle Crombie

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• Money pours into the Multnomah County DA’s race in final stretch

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