Ashley Koch
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2x Emmy-losing producer @TheStoryKGW and @KGWStraightTalk @KGWNews Lover of adventures and good stories Story ideas: akoch @kgw .com She/her
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I got nominated for an Emmy! 💜
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The only time Portland is really, truly an anarchist jurisdiction is when it snows
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A deputy in Yamhill County claims they got sick from fentanyl exposure at Willamina HS. Medical experts agree that secondhand exposure is highly unlikely. So we asked for the toxicology reports. The Yamhill Co Sheriff’s Office says the hospital accidentally threw it away
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Downtown Portland is less scary than Bridgeport Village on a Saturday in December
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Travel influencers are like “check out this hidden gem I found in Oregon” and it’s the Enchanted Forest
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Breaking, Oregon Republicans have now reached the Finding Out phase of their walkout plan
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YEAH SO HE HAD A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH AN INTERN AND THEN AN AIDE SAID HE BULLIED AND SEXUALLY HARASSED HIM AND AND NOW THESE REPORTS SAY HE BULLIED WOMEN AT CITY HALL BUT HE SAID HE WAS RESIGNING FOR HIS HEALTH AND OH YEAH HE WAS WITH THE MAYOR WHEN HE PEPPER SPRAYED A GUY
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If I post another picture of downtown Portland looking cute and not on fire are you guys going to freak out on me again or have we calmed down?
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“if i catch you filming anymore, i’ll fuck you up” says the guy with two cameras claiming to be anti fascism
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Pro-Palestinian protesters have begun to march down SW Market St in downtown Portland
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A group calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and support for Palestine has gathered and begun chanting at the downtown Portland tree lighting
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Oh no I’m reading a book set in Portland written by someone who doesn’t live in Portland
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Downtown Portland may no longer have Target but there are no fewer than 6 places to get boba within a five-minute walk of my apartment
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Y’all, I am begging:
-Go for a walk. It doesn’t have to be downtown if you’re scared. Just get off social media and enjoy the nice weather
-Hold space in your brain for the fact that more than one thing can be true. Things can be good, AND terrible. The world is a big place
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I am a single parent who has lived and worked downtown for years. I walk alone and with my small child through these streets every day. People are overwhelmingly minding their own business, homeless or not. But there is a lot of suffering here, and it does need to be addressed.
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Breaking: Target is closing three stores in Portland, including the downtown store, saying they need to prioritize worker and customer safety
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Target is leaving but at least we have this
Portland will soon be home to the world's largest charcuterie board, featuring a 500-foot-long spread of meat, cheese, fruit, and other antipasto - and you can catch a bite!
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Multnomah County is sitting on literally hundreds of millions in unspent money specifically geared toward homelessness, and all they offered dozens of asylum seekers is tents
Come Friday 80 people seeking asylum in Portland could end up on the streets.
Funding for their hotel rooms ran out and Multnomah County offered them tents.
“We don’t have a place to go. We really need the help. It’s not just me there are a lot of mothers here.”
@KGWNews
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In the first paragraph they mentioned people using umbrellas and how it shouldn’t rain until November, already this is going poorly
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@shoshido
I never accused anyone of faking anything. I said I want to see a tox report, something that is apparently not possible now. I’d also like to see the tox reports of all the cops who claim to collapse or get sick from fentanyl, including those in this video.
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A lawyer representing Portland Public Schools is accusing the teachers union of "terrorism" for protesting at the Oregon Convention Center and at the home of PPS chief of staff
@JonGarc1a
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There is a triple homicide at UVA and a quadruple homicide at the University of Idaho and one of them is getting far, far more national media attention than the other
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@davidrmoran
If you ingest it, yes. But this deputy reported getting sick from being in the same room as someone who may have been smoking it. Being near fentanyl is widely considered not dangerous if it’s not ingested.
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Even had an encounter with a *gasp* homeless person who asked me if I would *clutches pearls* buy their newspaper. I did and went on my way and they went on theirs. It was wild
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I’M NOT YELLING AT YOU IT’S JUST THAT IN TV NEWS WE WRITE EVERYTHING IN ALL CAPS
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I’m sorry but if you agree to go out with me you are agreeing to enthusiastic retellings of niche municipal political drama
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Clarification, since twitter does not let me edit, they did not use the word “accident.” That is my bad.
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Someone just ran up yelling, “Hold that bus!”
bb it’s not going anywhere
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they have started breaking windows at starbucks in pioneer courthouse square and stealing tables
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You can now order 4 at-home Covid tests to be sent via USPS. I ordered mine just now—took about 30 seconds
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All in all, none of the books challenged by the Oregon Moms Union will be banned from the schools, all of them will remain in some libraries. Some of them will be restricted to high school level only. The decision is final. They cannot be reviewed again for 3 years.
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SO excited about the show tonight!! Oregon and Washington elected lots of women to represent them in Congress, and we got them together! It’s SUCH a great conversation—on
@KGWStraightTalk
tonight
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Y'all there is a SECOND DEAD WHALE on the beach at Fort Stevens, it washed up just about 100 yards from this weekend’s whale, according to an email from the Seaside Aquarium to
@KGWNews
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A few months ago, a group of anti-maskers spent weeks harassing me here, calling masks in schools "child abuse," saying they cause trauma, sending me videos of kids eating lunch on buckets outside and, I kid you not, calling it "genocide." They have not said a word this week.
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Protesters headed back toward south park blocks. I had to go pick up my son but this is the scene in front of the Millar Library at PSU
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Some kind of explosion has gone off in front of the apple store
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other police agencies have cops passing out thinking they have "fentanyl exposure" but here in portland we just play with it
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I’m at the West Linn-Wilsonville school board meeting, where the superintendent is expected to announce the decision about banning 8 books from the districts libraries.
BACKGROUND:
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Journalists will question everything except free food in the newsroom. What is it? Where did it come from? How long has it been sitting out? I don't need these answers
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‼️The Newberg School Board has hired a new superintendent—Stephen Phillips resigned from the Beaverton School District after retweeting racist tweets about immigrants:
Phillips named next Superintendent
Phillips nombrado próximo Superintendente
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We are pulling Vault footage on the Burnside skate park for tonight's show and OMG you guys it is pure 90s TV news delight
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I have somehow found myself in an aggressively cat-themed coffee shop. Don’t ever let them tell you Portland is dead
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These trimet buses have been stuck here for a while, and everyone is just trying to go around them (it’s not going well for any of us)
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This is my favorite
@KGWStraightTalk
we’ve done—we’re talking pride! Drag bans! Darcelle! All of it! With
@PoisonWaters
who is just wonderful 💜 🏳️🌈
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The man accused of shooting two people in an apparent road rage incident in downtown Portland yesterday owned a financial fund company and lives in the West Hills. He also used an alias and was charged with violent crimes in another state. Article ⬇️
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I had to leave after the superintendent’s decision because I have my kid with me and he was getting antsy being at a school board meeting (single mom journalist life lollllll) but I’ll watch public comment and have a wrap on
@TheStoryKGW
tomorrow
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OK if this is going to get attention, please check out my last story, it’s very good
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I'm working on a little historical thing and I found this archive footage from 1966 when the
@KGWNews
building had fountains outside (!) and people employed as tour guides (!!) and something called a "color film lab"
"We call it 'building for the future!'"
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Oh my god I got nominated for an Emmy
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a million times more, if you like the work someone does, tell them. Emails like this mean so much to us—this job is hard sometimes, last week in particular was exhausting, and seeing this on a Monday morning really brightened things up
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A parent and PTA member tells me he’s thrilled with the decision, that if he’d had these books as a kid, they would’ve helped him in difficult times that included questioning his sexually and being raped
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Why does the media refuse to cover this wild story that I learned about from a news article
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A day after Portland media reported that a business was illegally selling psychedelic mushrooms, a line has formed around the block in front of the Shroom House
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Just gave up on trying to drive to work (normally a 6-minute drive!) after it took half an hour to get 6 blocks. Better cars than mine are spun out. Don’t drive downtown right now, the roads are garbage
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OH MY GOD I got nominated for an Emmy. That's me! That's my name!
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These people spent weeks tweeting at me day and night, over and over, making sure some little news producer knew how upset they were over something they thought was harming kids. But now, silence.
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I got to interview this queen when I was just a little intern
@CBSDenver
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This
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@RaxKingIsDead
In my freshman public speaking class, we had to pick who we thought were the two most influential public speakers of our time, 80% of the class chose Barack Obama and Dane Cook
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“If you think damaging businesses or trashing a library on a university campus will impact events in the Middle East, then you are delusional."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
(live press conference here⬇️)
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People chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as the Alvin & the Chipmunks Christmas song plays in the background
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#BREAKING
Portland city commissioner Dan Ryan says he’ll be voting NO on changing the city of Portland’s charter—says he doesn’t support having a “weak mayor” form of govt
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Only 8,335 votes currently separate Tina Kotek (D) from Christine Drazan (R) in the race for Oregon governor
#orpol
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Our time has come 🧨💥🐳
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My student loan servicer is like Ah so you DO know how to log in to this account
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They’ve now cranked up the music, so “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” is BLASTING over the group
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I find it so funny when people on twitter are like uR nOt TeLlINg tHe wHoLE sToRy… like no bb of course i’m not, not here! twitter doesn’t pay me for my journalism! the station i work for does! twitter is for interesting things i see and talking about taylor swift
@AshleyKochKGW
Did you ask any of them about their logic and motivation because it seems key to reporting on what's going on if you continue to see the same places targeted for years????? Let's get some reporting and not just alarmist comments here
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TIME named Portland one of its "Worlds Greatest Places 2022." Yes, Portland, Oregon. I had... some questions. So I talked to the author.
#thestorykgw
TIME names Portland one of the 'Greatest Places in the World.' Yes, really!
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You guys aren’t going to believe this but there is a third whale
Y'all there is a SECOND DEAD WHALE on the beach at Fort Stevens, it washed up just about 100 yards from this weekend’s whale, according to an email from the Seaside Aquarium to
@KGWNews
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Has anyone written a big long thing about the culture of Nike moms on the west side of Portland or does that have to be me?
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A couple people in black broke off to break a window at the Wells Fargo building
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Tonight my son said he was very excited to:
Eat a big bowl of soup
Drink a big cup of tea
Watch Jeopardy
And fall asleep listening to The Lord of the Rings
I swear he is 10 but he might also be 80
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In honor of the 20th birthday of
@VoodooDoughnut
, I found our archive footage of the shop back when it first opened and looked like this
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This is the best summary of dating in the Pacific Northwest I’ve ever seen
someone in beacon hill has been hurt by a nonethical polyamorous man and is expressing it through sticker
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I have been driving downtown for 25 minutes and I have made it 5 blocks
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@LexyB5150
Honestly, same. Could never live or do the news in a boring place. Absolutely adore this magical trash city 💜
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