Celebrating a history of service

Angela Brown to give free performance of ‘Opera from a Sistah’s Point of View’ Jan. 20 in Portland

Starbucks plans to open or remodel 85 stores by 2025 in rural and urban communities across the U.S. The effort will bring to 100 the number of "community stores" Starbucks has opened since it announced the program in 2015

The state developed the curriculum, as required by Senate Bill 13, with the input of Native leaders for 18 months, but is still behind. A soft roll-out begins this month

Buttigieg removed Bend, Indiana's first African American police chief in 2012  for "inappropriate taping" of department phone calls, saying he did so to avoid federal prosecution of the chief, but the Feds say otherwise

The nation’s longest running film festival of its kind returns with 30 films and documentaries 

Democrat Cory Booker's departure now leaves a field that was once the most diverse in history

Democratic candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders;  Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar along with former Vice President Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are all entering the final stretch with a plausible chance of winning Iowa's caucuses