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Kara Branch (Photo courtesy of Black Girls Do Engineer) 

Black Girls Do Engineer is a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black and brown girls into STEM

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On March 14, Daniela Gray was named a Princess of this year's court. (Photo/Portland Rose Festival) 

On March 14, Daniela Gray was named a Princess of this year's court.

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Portland Rose Festival 2024 Court Member from Cleveland High School, Zora Forsberg (Photo: Portland Rose Festival) 

The Rose Festival Princess from Cleveland High School, Zora Forsberg, was selected March 14.

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Portland Rose Festival 2024 Court Member from Central Catholic High School, Jayda Jackson (Photo: Rose Festival) 

The Rose Festival Princess from Central Catholic High School, Jayda Jackson, was selected March 8.

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Portland Rose Festival 2024 Court Member from Lincoln High School, Isabelle Muresan (Photo: Rose Festival) 

The Rose Festival Princess from Lincoln High School, Isabelle Muresan, was selected on March 12.

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Portland Rose Festival 2024 Court Member from Sherwood, Amelia Godard (Photo: Rose Festival) 

On March 11, Amelia Godard was named a princess of this year's court. Amelia is a senior at Sherwood High School and expects to graduate this June.

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Portland Rose Festival 2024 Court Member from La Salle Catholic College Preparatory, Cadence Wooden (Photo: Rose Festival) 

The Rose Festival Princess from La Salle Catholic College Preparatory, Cadence Wooden, was selected on March 11.

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Hemp plant. Credit: Jeffrey Steiner, Oregon State University. 

The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, seeks to develop sustainable supply chains based on the needs identified by an intertribal business consortium that link regional hemp production, processing and manufacturing to create hemp products.

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Washington State Capitol  

For the first time in more than a century of voter-submitted ballot proposals, the filing fee for Initiatives to the legislature has moved from $5 to an inflation-indexed amount, currently set at $156. Similar adjustments to the filing fees for referenda and initiatives to the people will take effect in January, the beginning of the next filing period for each.

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(Photo by Engin Akyurt) 

Infrastructure projects awarded federal funding

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