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Most Gig Workers Paid Sick Leave Under New Seattle Law
The measure expands pandemic-era protections and strengthens labor rights for app-based workers.
Seattle Audubon Changes Name, Severing Tie to Slave Owner
James Audubon, a naturalist known for his watercolor paintings of birds, also owned, sold and bought enslaved African Americans through his general store in Kentucky and was a staunch opponent of abolition.
Idaho Law Could Criminalize Helping Minors Get Abortions
The measure would create a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” punishable by up to five years in prison, barring adults from obtaining abortion pills and “recruiting, harboring, or transporting" a pregnant minor.
Legislative BIPOC Caucus Announces 2023 Priorities
In a historic milestone for the state, this is the most diverse Legislature in Oregon history, with 20 BIPOC legislators serving this session.
OHCS Applauds Gov. Kotek’s Signing of HBs 2001 and 5019 to Address Housing Needs
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) applauds Gov.Tina Kotek who today signed bipartisan legislation addressing the state’s...
County Distributes $5 Million in Grants to Community-Based Organizations
Awards will help 13 community-based organizations fund capital improvements to better serve historically marginalized...
Call for Submissions: Play Scripts, Web Series, Film Shorts, Features & Documentaries
Deadline for submissions to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Readers Series & Film Festival extended to April 8 ...
Motorcycle Lane Filtering Law Passes Oregon Senate
SB 422 will allow motorcyclists to avoid dangers of stop-and-go traffic under certain conditions ...
MET Rental Assistance Now Available
The Muslim Educational Trust is extending its Rental Assistance Program to families in need living in Multnomah or Washington...
Agreement in place to return Lolita the orca to the Pacific
MIAMI (AP) — An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, animal rights group and NFL owner-philanthropist announced Thursday that a plan is in place to return Lolita — an orca that has lived in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years — to her home waters in the Pacific...
MIAMI (AP) — Plan announced to return Lolita, a 57-year-old orca, from Miami marine park to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest....
MLB The Show breaks barrier with Negro League players
LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers are now able...
Jacksonville's Armstrong: HR surge 'out-of-body experience'
Jacksonville’s Kris Armstrong could always hit for power, but never like this. Armstrong slugged six home runs over eight at-bats against Central Arkansas this past weekend, and he's gone deep eight times in 15 trips to the plate since Thursday. “It's kind of an...
Oregon Should Reject Racist Roots, Restore Voting Rights For People in Prisons
Blocking people with felony convictions from voting started in the Jim Crow era as an intentional strategy to keep Black people from voting ...
Celebrating 196 Years of The Black Press
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. ...
DEQ Announces Suspension of Oregon’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program
The state’s popular incentive for drivers to switch to electric vehicles is scheduled to pause in May ...
FHA Makes Housing More Affordable for 850,000 Borrowers
Savings tied to median market home prices ...
Study: Biggest Hollywood films still go mostly to white men
NEW YORK (AP) — As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, its biggest film productions dipped in diversity after years of incremental progress, according to a new study by UCLA researchers. Opportunities were notably greater for women and people of color on streaming platforms than in theatrically...
Anatomy of a political takeover at Florida public college
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has targeted a tiny, public liberal arts college on the shores of Sarasota Bay, as a staging ground for his war on “woke.” The governor and his allies say the New College of Florida, known as a progressive school with...
California reparations amount, if any, left to politicians
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The leader of California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force on Wednesday said it won't take a stance on how much the state should compensate Black residents whom economists estimate may be owed more than 0 billion for decades of over-policing, disproportionate...
Dalbavie’s 'Melancholy of Resistance' to premiere in Berlin
Marc-André Dalbavie’s opera based on Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s surrealistic novel “The Melancholy of Resistance” will premiere next summer in Berlin. Titled “Melancholie des Widerstands,” the opera will be conducted by Marie Jacquot and directed by David Marton, the...
'Bachelor' creator Mike Fleiss exits reality TV franchise
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Fleiss, the creator of “The Bachelor,” has exited the reality TV franchise more than two decades after the iconic dating show launched. His departure was confirmed Tuesday, a day after “The Bachelor” aired its season 27 finale. “I want...
Special prosecutors appointed in Baldwin set shooting case
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Santa Fe's district attorney has appointed two veteran New Mexico lawyers to serve as the new special prosecutors in the manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin and a weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a 2021 movie rehearsal. ...
Used car prices are surging. Here's why you should buy now
Well, it was nice while it lasted. For nearly a year, the average used vehicle in the United States...
US: Russia seeks arms-for-food deal with North Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday said it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North...
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the...
Veteran actress' surrogate baby stirs controversy in Spain
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s ruling Socialist party said Thursday it will study toughening legislation covering...
Taiwan's leader, in US, stresses security for her island
NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly sensitive U.S. visit, Taiwan’s president is delivering a message that keeping her...
Pope showing 'marked improvement,' could leave hospital soon
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis showed a “marked improvement” Thursday after being given intravenous antibiotics...
Photos from The Skanner Foundation's 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast.
