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Governor Kate Brown Sets Vaccination Targets for Oregon to Reopen
Most statewide coronavirus related restrictions will be lifted when 70% of Oregon's residents who are 16 years and older receive the first COVID-19 vaccine dose. In addition, counties will be eligible to move into the “lower risk” category when 65% of the area's eligible population is vaccinated.
Reductions at Center for Women’s Leadership Mean No Advisory Board
Citing budget cuts and fundraising shortfalls due to the pandemic, PSU and the center’s board chair announce the illustrious board will be dissolved this summer.
Inslee OKs Bill Curbing Debt-Based License Suspensions
An estimated 46,000 people have their licenses suspended annually because they fail to pay court-imposed fines for noncriminal moving violations as minor as neglecting to use a turn signal.
Drug Overdoses Skyrocket in Washington State Amid COVID
The Seattle Times reported that fatal drug overdoses increased more than 30% last year compared to 2019, according to the data, an increase more than twice as large as any other year in the past decade.
Portland Audubon Hosts ‘Nature Night, Centering Justice and Identity’ Virtual Event
The discussion to be held on June 1, focuses on building inclusive scientific communities for our shared future ...
Gov. Inslee Signs Agriculture Worker Overtime Bill
Senate Bill 5172 creates a phased-in path toward full overtime pay for agricultural workers by 2024. For 2022, they ensure overtime...
PCC Art Student Exhibition Showcases Pandemic-Era Resilience
The exhibition opens on Monday, May 17 and runs through June 4 and includes a salon-style virtual showcase of two- and...
Oregon Lawmakers Extend Grace Period for Past-Due Rent
Currently, tenants have until July, but under Senate Bill 282 tenants will have until Feb. 28, 2022. ...
Billboard Campaign Connects Black-on-Black Gun Violence to White Supremacy
Community-based organizations respond to the underlying issues that are feeding into this public health crisis: White supremacy ...
US cities see surge in deadly street racing amid pandemic
Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her. Sanford was remembered by friends as kind and thoughtful, but now she...
Audit: Portland skipped safeguards to get virus grants out
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A city audit has found that Portland failed to create a fair and transparent grant selection process, interpreted eligibility criteria loosely and didn’t protect against misuse of funds in their haste to get pandemic relief money to small businesses. ...
OP-ED: The Supreme Court Can Protect Black Lives by Ending Qualified Immunity
The three officers responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor are not the first to walk free after killing an unarmed Black person, and unfortunately, especially if things continue as they are, they will not be the last. ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trade Arron Rodgers
Give Aaron Rodgers a break, Green Bay. Just like Bart Starr & Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers has been a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Packers for 16 years. ...
Editorial From the Publisher - Council: Police Reform Needed Now
Through years of ceaseless protest, activists have tried to hold Portland Police to account. ...
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum shares her thoughts after the verdicts ...
Judge approves 7 million settlement for Maryland HBCUs
ANNAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has approved a 7 million settlement in a lawsuit over underfunding at Maryland's four historically Black colleges and universities. The deal approved Wednesday will provide 5 million in extra funding over 10 years, beginning in 2023, for...
Weary Gaza marks Muslim feast as violence spreads in Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Weary Palestinians prepared for a somber feast marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel. The violence has reached deeper...
Colleges pushed anew for reparations for slavery, racism
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — For Brown University students, the Ivy League college's next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery is clear: Pay up. Nearly two decades after the Providence, Rhode Island, institution launched its much-lauded reckoning,...
Silenced by pandemic, Met Opera to make brief return
NEW YORK (AP) — Silenced for 14 months by the pandemic and dealing with labor strife, the Metropolitan Opera will make a brief return Sunday. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct members of the Met orchestra and chorus in a program with soprano Angel Blue, tenor...
Andrew McCarthy taps into 80’s nostalgia with new memoir
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew McCarthy admits he “fled” from his shaggy-haired 1980’s persona and didn’t look back for decades. Much like the slouchy blazers he wore in movies like “Pretty in Pink” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” that Brat Pack moniker and image never really fit. But time has...
CNN's Sanjay Gupta worries about a muddled pandemic message
NEW YORK (AP) — At this stage in the pandemic, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is concerned that Americans are not getting clear enough messages about what they should or shouldn't be doing to keep themselves and others protected. Should people still be wearing a mask outside? (He...
Officials: Tiny uptick in 2020 military sex assault reports
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020,...
Justices consider hearing a case on 'most offensive word'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at...
Judge weighing relevance of Ahmaud Arbery's mental health
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge will continue hearing legal motions Thursday in the murder case of three...
Europe rights body worried by claims Greece ejects migrants
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Europe's top human rights body has expressed “deep concern” at persistent allegations...
Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: report
BEIJING (AP) — Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019...
Frustration in Japan as leader pushes Olympics despite virus
TOKYO (AP) — A full-page newspaper ad says Japanese will be "killed by politics" because the government is...
