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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 31 October 2019

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

PROGRESS Act would create two new tax incentives to help small businesses hire and grow

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 31 October 2019

William Davis successfully had a marijuana-related conviction expunged from his record

Two new laws will streamline record-clearing efforts and waive filing fees

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 31 October 2019

Eric Eugene Scardino Jr. (courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

When officers arrived they witnessed Eric Scardino chasing a man, who is Black, with a shovel and a knife while yelling racial slurs

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 30 October 2019

(photo courtesy of PBOT Twitter page)

Red transit lanes are part of PBOT's effort to make bus, streetcar, and train service more efficient

Details: Written by Gene Johnson Associated Press; Published: 29 October 2019

In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 photo, a campaign poster for Seattle City Council incumbent candidate Kshama Sawant is posted outside her campaign headquarters in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Residents from other cities across the US are watching Amazon's political spending and influence in Seattle, saying it can happen in any city

Details: Written by Andrew Selsky and Matthew Daly Associated Press; Published: 29 October 2019

House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce ranking member Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., speaks during a legislative hearing on "making prescription drugs more affordable" on Capitol Hill in Washington(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rep. Greg Walden said he could have won re-election, but former Democrat opponent Jamie McLeod-Skinner said this "demonstrates the power of our efforts last year to flip the House and establish accountability"

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 26 October 2019

Oregon's affordable housing group says proposed changes will allow landlords to discriminate and make it impossible for victims to hold them accountable

Details: Written by Kathryn Dawson, Office of Communications and Community Engagement, USDA Forest Service, Portland; Published: 24 October 2019

USDA Forest Service Planning Engineer Yiqiang (Kevin) Gu

Planning Engineer Yiqiang (Kevin) Gu says “Having a career that can contribute to improving other people’s lives and that can help to shape our future can be very fulfilling”

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 24 October 2019

Nate McCoy, chair of the Portland Housing Bureau Advisory Committee (Photo by Saundra Sorenson)

Nate McCoy wants city to be more inclusive of minority-owned firms.

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 24 October 2019

The decision comes just two days after state police officials released body cam video showing an OSP campus officer's arrest of a Black female student