Portland in the News: Storm Large on America’s Got Talent; To-go Cocktails; Moshow on Netflix & More! | June 17, 2021

Keep an eye on Portland singer Storm Large, who moved to the next round of “America’s Got Talent” this week, earning a standing ovation from all the judges.

Governor Brown has made to-go cocktails permanent in Oregon.

And city officials are considering what comes next for the pedestal atop Mount Tabor. Currently a temporary bust of York graces the monument but it won’t last forever.

Here’s a roundup of the goings-on in Portland this week:

• DJC Oregon: Eco-roofs growing into urban role in Portland

• KATU: Portland’s cat rapper Moshow featured in new Neflix docuseries, ‘Cat People’

• KGW8: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reflects on growing up in Oregon and the struggles of rural America

• Oregonian: Portland officials plan to remove, replace bust of York atop Mount Tabor

• Willamette Week: Portland-Born Author Mitchell S. Jackson Has Won a Pulitzer Prize

• KATU: Oregon considers giving essential workers $2,000 bonus

• KOIN: Regenerative tourists leave Oregon better than they found it

• Food & Wine: The ‘Top Chef’ Guide to Portland

• Fox 12: Brown signs bill making ‘to-go’ cocktails permanent in Oregon starting Jan 1

• KGW8: Portland singer Storm Large wows judges on ‘America’s Got Talent’

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