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Lottery Misses Mark on Minorities’ Fair Share
The Oregon Lottery’s most recent advertising slogan is “Together, we do good things”. But when we look at where the profits are coming from and where any potential benefit from lottery profits flow to, is this really true?
Court Sides With Governor Kate Brown Over Early Prison Releases
Two attorneys took particular issue with Brown’s decision to allow 73 people convicted of murder, assault, rape and manslaughter while they were younger than 18 to apply for early release.
Ballot Measure to Overhaul City Government Promises Minority Representation While Facing Controversy
The Portland Charter Commission aims to bring city in line with how other major U.S. cities do local governance.
White Woman Calls Police on Black Man Standing at His Home
“If you guys have a lease, I’d just like to see the lease,”
Seattle Hospital to Refuse Some Patients Due to Capacity
The hospital is caring for some 560 inpatients, more than 130% of its licensed capacity of 413 patients. ...
West Seattle Bridge to Reopen After Yearslong Closure
The 40-year-old bridge is among the city’s most important, previously allowing 100,000 drivers and 20,000 transit users to move...
Jefferson Alumni Invites Community to Block Party
This inaugural event is open to the public and will have tons of entertainment in tow, including a live DJ and music, a rib contest,...
The additional food benefits will be issued to families’ existing EBT cards in Fall 2022, with the exact dates yet to be...
Free Vaccination Events Provide Required Back-to-School Immunizations
On or before the first day of instruction, all K-12 students in Washington state must be up to date on vaccinations required for...
Seattle hospital to divert some patients due to capacity
SEATTLE (AP) — Harborview Medical Center in Seattle will temporarily stop accepting less acute patients and will divert them to other health care systems as capacity challenges worsen, according to the hospital’s CEO. “All hospital systems (are) very much over capacity with very...
West Seattle Bridge to reopen after yearslong closure
SEATTLE (AP) — The West Seattle Bridge will open Sunday, Sept. 18, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation. The date is the most specific milestone set by the city since the bridge closed more than two years ago due to safety concerns and provides weary West Seattle...
No One Ever Told You About Black August?
Black America lives in a series of deserts. Many of us live in food deserts, financial deserts, employment deserts, and most of us live in information deserts. ...
Betsy Johnson Fails to Condemn Confederate Flags at Her Rally
The majority of Oregonians, including our rural communities, value inclusion and unity, not racism and bigotry. ...
Monkeypox, Covid, and Your Vote
We must start a voter registration drive right here where we live. This effort must become as important to us as putting food on the table and a roof over our heads. ...
To many Americans, “reparations” is a dirty word when applied to Black folks. ...
Two years on, foundations stand by issuing bonds in pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — When the Ford Foundation took the unprecedented step in June 2020 of issuing jumi billion in debt to help stabilize other nonprofits, it delighted investors and inspired several other large foundations to follow suit. Two years later, the foundations all stand by...
Cuomo: Taxpayers should pay sexual harassment legal bills
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants taxpayers to foot his legal bills as he defends himself against a workplace sexual harassment claim — and he's suing the state's attorney general over it. Cuomo filed the suit against Attorney General Letitia James on...
Judge sends Wisconsin man to institution in hate crime crash
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge committed a man accused of targeting a motorcyclist in a fatal crash because of the victim's race to life in a mental institution Thursday. Daniel Navarro, a 27-year-old Mexican American from Fond du Lac, was convicted Wednesday of...
Review: Post Malone concert doc is all flash, no substance
NEW YORK (AP) — There's a moment in Post Malone’s new concert film when its star confesses to how surreal his life has become: “Sometimes I feel like I’m not a real person.” Fans will get no clarity on that astounding statement after watching Amazon's “Post Malone:...
Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch reach agreement on divorce
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Model and actor Jerry Hall and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce, her attorney said Thursday. Hall filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to dismiss her original petition for divorce from Murdoch,...
Planet Drum unites global percussionists in common rhythm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Grammy-winning group of the world’s top percussionists has reunited after 15 years on a new record that aims to bring the world together in rhythm and dance. Planet Drum’s new record “In The Groove,” out now, features drummers from very different...
Conservative push to alter Constitution focuses on primaries
DENVER (AP) — The fliers piled up in mailboxes in central South Dakota like snow during a high-plains blizzard:...
In ‘The Princess,’ a documentary on Diana flips the focus
The last thing the world needs, you might think, is another Princess Diana documentary. It’s a...
Wisconsin GOP leader Vos fires 2020 election investigator
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader on Friday ended a 14-month, taxpayer-funded...
Germany regrets boycott by Munich attack victims’ families
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Friday it regrets plans by families of Israeli athletes killed at the...
Portugal: EU eyes Iberia-Italy pipeline to get gas to Europe
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to...
South Korea to pardon Samsung's Lee, other corporate giants
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung's de-facto leader secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing a...
