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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 07 November 2016

Project offers $500 stipend to storytellers

Details: Written by The Skanner News Staff; Published: 07 November 2016

Students showed their patriotic spirit while watching the live presidential election results at the election night party. (Photo by Albert Herring, Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0)

The Skanner News will be covering both national and local election night news Tuesday evening

Details: Written by The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Published: 04 November 2016

Lyft car in Los Angeles. (Photo by DoulosBen, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The call is part of a broader inquiry into racial discrimination in the sharing economy

Details: Written by Portland State University; Published: 31 October 2016

PSU will have a grand opening Wednesday, Nov. 2 for the Pan-African Commons and the Pacific Islander, Asian & Asian American Student Center

Details: Written by Audible, Inc.; Published: 27 October 2016

Audible Makes the Esteemed Novelist’s National Book Award-Winning Novel Free to Listeners for the Rest of 2016

Details: Written by The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Published: 27 October 2016

EPA is working with Portland to provide support for equitable development

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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 27 October 2016

Fair Housing, Homeless Action Plan

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 27 October 2016

Multnomah County reminds you that it only takes one first class or forever stamp to mail your ballot.

Screening of ‘NorthEast Passage’, Election Ballots, Seed Swapping and more

Details: Written by The Skanner News Staff; Published: 21 October 2016

Judge Adrienne Nelson, CJ Robbins and Bernie and Bobbie Foster were honored Thursday evening by the Boy Scouts of America.

Details: Written by Portland Development Commission; Published: 19 October 2016

The Portland Development Commission is holding a community forum on the N/NE Community Development Initiative Action Plan

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