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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.
Mask Requirements in Healthcare Settings Lifting April 3
Some health care settings may decide to continue requiring masks even after the statewide requirement is lifted. ...
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 ...
52 years after capture, orca Lolita may return to Pacific
MIAMI (AP) — More than 50 years after the orca known as Lolita was captured for public display, plans are in place to return her from the Miami Seaquarium to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest, where a nearly century-old, endangered killer whale believed to be her mother still swims. ...
Bill to criminalize help for Idaho minors’ abortions passes
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would criminalize helping minors obtain an abortion without parental consent won final passage in Idaho's legislature on Thursday and is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Brad Little. The measure would be the first of its kind in the U.S. It...
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 ...
North Dakota governor vetoes transgender pronouns bill
North Dakota's Republican governor vetoed a bill that would generally prohibit public schools teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by pronouns other than those reflecting the sex assigned to them at birth. The state Senate voted 37-9 to override the veto Thursday...
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...
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...
CNN preaches patience as ratings tank during turnaround
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's leadership is preaching patience even though thousands of viewers are abandoning the network during its attempted turnaround, with no indication yet whether it will be rewarded. Cable news ratings are down across the board compared to 2022, when Russia's...
Review: Sandler, Aniston reteam in 'Murder Mystery 2'
You would have a hard time defending the limp plotting, the bland action-adventure set pieces or the Agatha Christie-light whodunit twists of the first “Murder Mystery.” And, yet, it was kind of good. “Murder Mystery,” one of Netflix's most-streamed films, was chock full of...
Many electric vehicles to lose big tax credit with new rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full ,500 federal tax credit later this year,...
Biden to Russia on detained US journalist: 'Let him go'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday urged Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan...
Trump to be arraigned Tuesday to face hush money indictment
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be arraigned Tuesday after his indictment in Manhattan, his...
2 foreign nationals die in small plane crash in Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A small plane crashed on Friday in northern Croatia, killing two people on board,...
Greece's PM makes border wall extension an election pledge
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister promised Friday to extend an existing wall across all of...
1 year ago, scenes of horror emerged from Ukraine's Bucha
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The cratered roads have been repaved and the damaged houses are gradually being repaired....
Photos from The Skanner Foundation's 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast.
