Offering a helping hand will be the focus of the First Annual Seattle Stand Down for Homeless Veterans.  The event, scheduled for Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will be held at Seattle Central Community College and is expected to connect over 500 homeless veterans and their families to a variety of services.

REAL Prep Academy, the charter school, which promised students an education grounded in the recording arts, has fallen apart because of poor financial management and won't open Monday Sept. 12 as planned.

To continue his legacy, friends and supporters are launching the Phil Walden Scholarship, as well as annual sports events.

Students at Jefferson High School Middle College for Advanced Studies, now attend classes for free at Portland Community College. Low-income students who keep a B average can get full scholarships to UO once they have a year's worth of college credits. The problem? Many are unprepared to take advantage of the offer.

Many of us here in this newspaper office were busy putting out the weekly street edition of The Skanner News on Sept. 11, 2001.
Within minutes of getting to work we were gathered in our publisher's office staring in disbelief at the images of destruction that replayed endlessly for the entire day -- and for years to come.

Six teens were shot and wounded on the porch of a house near the intersection of N. Albina and N. Jessup late Friday. The victims were hospitalized and treated for non-life threatening injuries. The victims had nothing to do with gangs. What will it take to end youth violence in our community?

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A man with extensive ties to white supremacists pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he planted a bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., targeting minorities.

TriMet's new Director of Equity and Diversity Johnell Bell talks about his vision for a transportation equity advisory group at TriMet, as well as hot-button issues including public input on fare increases, North Williams Avenue transportation planning, and TriMet's record of working with minority contractors in construction projects.

The Black Star Project is a Chicago-based educational reform organization founded 15 years ago by Phillip Jackson. Next week, the group's crowning glory – the Million Father March – is set to hit the high mark of actually bringing one million fathers into their children's schools, for the first time since the event began.

Portland's largest Internet providers are rolling out deals that will help the city's poorest families get online. But to become competitive up in the global economy, we need to do much more – fast.