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Lance Randall, Executive Director, Black Business Association of Oregon 

Measure 26-238, a proposed local capital gains tax, is unfair and a burden on Black business owners in an already-challenging economic environment.

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Sandy Chung, executive director of ACLU of Oregon and Nkenge Harmon Johnson, president and CEO of Urban League of Portland 

Blocking people with felony convictions from voting started in the Jim Crow era as an intentional strategy to keep Black people from voting

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Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper 

It was on March 17, 1827, at a meeting of “Freed Negroes” in New York City, that Samuel Cornish, a Presbyterian minister, and John Russwurn, the first Negro college graduate in the United States, established the negro newspaper. 

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(Photo/ Precious Madubuike) 

The state’s popular incentive for drivers to switch to electric vehicles is scheduled to pause in May

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Charlene Crowell  

Savings tied to median market home prices 

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Svante Myrick 

Blue cities in red states, beware: conservatives in state government may be coming for your police department.  

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Ben Jealous 

For decades, hydroelectric dams on the lower Snake River have been killing off salmon that must traverse them to spawn, Southern Resident orcas that feed on salmon, and the cultures of tribal nations who consider the salmon their first food.

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Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC) 

To reform this violent culture, we must enact public safety reforms that address the lack of accountability and transparency in policing while increasing the standards for those who wear the badge.

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Tina Adams  

“Duty to defend” clauses require us to pay the legal expenses for others involved in construction projects even before fault is determined

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Even with the best of intentions from elected officials and policymakers about advancing equity and eliminating health disparities, the reality is that we have a worsening health care situation in the United States, and Oregon specifically

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