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Washington State University Vancouver provides quality education to the residents of Southwest Washington and the Portland metropolitan area. With a student population of 3,000, WSU Vancouver offers a small-college atmosphere with public university access.

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Unlikely activist duo backs up food artisan over minor infractions

The Portland Saturday Market was poised last week to kick out one of its only vendors of color, but a last minute appeal by an unlikely duo changed their course

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Advocates plan to take medical marijuana campaign to other states

A band of doctors and medical marijuana advocates are roaming Montana to sign up thousands of patients in a so-called Cannabis Caravan. The state medical board is trying to curtail the mass screenings and recently fined a physician who participated in a similar clinic in the first disciplinary action taken against a doctor in a Montana medical marijuana case 

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Now relegated to part-time duty and with little pop left in that perfect swing, Griffey unexpectedly decided Wednesday to retire after 22 mostly brilliant seasons.

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Widely regarded as wackos who have dogged military funerals with provocative signs linking war casualties with homosexuality, the Westboro Baptist Church's planned picketing of Grant High School in Portland Thursday drew almost 400 counter protesters.

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What would you do if you were president of your college for a day? Portland Community College student and Phi Theta Kappa honor society member Adrian Thompson had just that opportunity on Tuesday, June 1 when (former for a day) Cascade Campus President Algie Gatewood stepped aside to let the young man step forward.

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Robert Satiacum is leading a movement to return ancient Indian names of Washington landmarks.

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