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Carly moved to Portland in 2014 and answered a Craigslist ad for a masonry laborer.

Local businesses closing their doors, cutting hours and laying off workers has the potential to disrupt the fabric of our community in a way that can’t be easily repaired. Let’s look out for each other in these strange times.

“Refurbish” may be a ridiculous word, but it is definitely the prettiest member of the repair family.

Your car emits tons of data and there’s a fight over who gets it! Phones remain challenging to repair for a variety of software and hardware reasons! The Green Party presents an idea that is both visionary and rooted in precedent! Exclamation points!!!

This week(ish) in repair: iFixit teardowns caused waves, governments had mixed thoughts about repair legislation, and car repair got a fancy facelift.

In recent weeks, Right to Repair has carved a winding path from Washington, D.C., to the literal other side of the earth, to the bins at our collective curb.

Upcoming repair-related events for the month of October 2019.

No time to read it all? No problem.

From corporate to community scale, here are the repair stories we read in September.

A legislative battle is being fought over access to parts, tools, and technical information required for repair work.

Fifteen minutes after the start of last Saturday’s Repair Cafe, the waiting area was already half full

Portland’s repair shops have been disappearing for the last 60 years. There’s now less than a sixth of the 1955 level.

We’re all adults here.