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Published: 17 January 2016

 

Should minimum wage be the same in depressed rural Oregon and fast-growing Portland     

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Published: 15 January 2016

Dr. Lisa Bates 

The PSU Professor won an award for excellence in urban and regional planning   

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Published: 14 January 2016

 

The new hiring standard, based on the NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule,’ requires city to interview at least one minority, female or disabled candidate   

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Published: 14 January 2016

 

Event has equipped the city’s young with life skills through hip hop since 2007   

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Published: 10 January 2016

 

Video: Dr William Li on healing animals and eating to beat cancer   

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Written by Donovan M. Smith

Published: 08 January 2016

 

Series of short ‘video portraits’ attempts to capture the diversity of people of African descent   

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Published: 07 January 2016

Photo by Eli Duke (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr 

Petition to rehabilitate the never-used jail has 1,700 signatures 

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Published: 07 January 2016

The city of Portland must rehire Officer Ron Frashour, who was terminated after shooting Aaron Campbell in 2010. 

Officer who shot Aaron Campbell to return to duty 

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Written by The Associated Press

Published: 04 January 2016

 

Militiamen converge on Burns to dismay of some locals  

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Published: 31 December 2015

The officer who shot Aaron Campbell, shown here in a Skanner file photo, must be reinstated per an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling.  

Activists plan protests Thursday morning