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Albina Vision Trust, No More Freeways Clash During City Council Hearing
No More Freeways claims ODOT is planning larger expansion than expected.
Renters Call on Washington Lawmakers to Approve Rent-control Bill
Washington state is inches away from joining Oregon and California in passing a bill to limit rent increases in a bid to keep more families in stable housing. HB1217 passed the Senate but with two controversial amendments - one would cut rent caps for single-family homes. If the House rejects the amendments the bill will go to a committee for more work, but can a bill be passed before the end of the session in less than two weeks
Permanent education facilities, legal clinics and college opportunities to be offered.
Bernice King Reflects on the Fair Housing Act, Made Law After Her Father's Killing
Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints.
Alerting People About Rights Is Protected Under Oregon Senate Bill
Senate Bill 1191 says telling someone about their rights isn’t a crime in Oregon. ...
1803 Fund Makes Investment in Black Youth Education
The1803 Fund has announced a decade-long investment into Self Enhancement Inc. and Albina Head Start. The investment will take shape...
Senate Democrats Keep School Book Decisions Local and Fair
The Freedom to Read bill says books depicting race, sex, religion and other groups have to be judged by the same standards as all...
University of Portland 2025 Commencement Ceremony Set for Sunday, May 4 at Chiles Center
Keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson, PhD is a distinguished professor, gifted writer and media personality. His books on...
Education Alliance Announces 30th Anniversary Event Chairs
Set for Saturday, April 26, the evening will bring together civic leaders, advocates and community members in a shared commitment to...
Fresh lawsuit hits Oregon city at the heart of Supreme Court ruling on homeless encampments
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed cities across the country to enforce homeless camping bans is facing a fresh lawsuit over its camping rules, as advocates find new ways to challenge them in a legal landscape...
Western Oregon women's basketball players allege physical and emotional abuse
MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) — Former players for the Western Oregon women's basketball team have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging emotional and physical abuse. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Marion County, seeks million damages. It names the university, its athletic...
Slaughter leads Missouri against No. 5 Texas
Missouri Tigers (12-10, 1-6 SEC) at Texas Longhorns (20-2, 6-1 SEC) Austin, Texas; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Missouri visits No. 5 Texas after Grace Slaughter scored 31 points in Missouri's 78-77 victory against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The...
Cuts to Minority Business Development Agency Leaves 3 Staff
6B CDFI affordable capital for local investment also at risk ...
The Courage of Rep. Al Green: A Mandate for the People, Not the Powerful
If his colleagues truly believed in the cause, they would have risen in protest beside him, marched out of that chamber arm in arm with him, and defended him from censure rather than allowing Republicans to frame the narrative. ...
Bending the Arc: Advancing Equity in a New Federal Landscape
January 20th, 2025 represented the clearest distillation of the crossroads our country faces. ...
Trump’s America Last Agenda is a Knife in the Back of Working People
Donald Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how brutally he went after our country’s working people in the first few days – even the first few hours – after he was...
Trump consoles crash victims then dives into politics with attack on diversity initiatives
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to the deadliest American aviation disaster in more than two decades by blaming diversity initiatives for undermining safety and questioning the actions of a U.S. Army helicopter pilot involved in the midair collision with a...
US Supreme Court rejects likely final appeal of South Carolina inmate a day before his execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car. Marion Bowman Jr.'s request to stop his execution until a...
Trump's orders take aim at critical race theory and antisemitism on college campuses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. A separate plan announced Wednesday calls for aggressive action to...
The leaders of France and Britain are visiting Washington this week. It's part of European efforts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President speaks of being a bridge between Europe and the U.S. administration. French President Emmanuel Macron has more strongly criticized Trump’s statements and American moves to negotiate with Moscow. Both leaders insist Ukraine must not be sidelined in peace talks. Macron is due at the White House on Monday and Starmer on Thursday.
President-elect Donald Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the Senate, which has the constitutional responsibility for “advice and consent” on presidential nominees. Trump and his allies are talking about going around the Senate and using temporary recess appointments, which last no more than two years. Invoking that authority could result in a court fight that lands at the Supreme Court. Trump might also have to claim another never-before-used power to force the Senate into a recess if it won’t agree to one
