Port of Morrow will pay $2 million to clean up dirty drinking water in state settlement (www.oregonlive.com)
Portland expected to pay $300k to settle 2020 police brutality lawsuit by protester (www.oregonlive.com)
The Portland City Council is expected to approve spending $300,000 to settle an August 2020 lawsuit filed by a man who alleged Portland police officers assaulted him during a Black Lives Matter protest, fracturing two bones in his arm.
Portland Public Schools strike draws 1000s of teachers to picket lines, and emotions run high (www.oregonlive.com)
Intel will pay Israel employees $5,000 bonus (www.oregonlive.com)
Idaho mom, son charged over trip to Oregon with his teen girlfriend for abortion (www.oregonlive.com)
Freezing temperatures could be coming for Portland this weekend (www.oregonlive.com)
Oregon broadens the scope of health and sexuality education in public schools (www.oregonlive.com)
Oregon says students don't need to prove mastery of writing, math to graduate, citing harm to students of color (www.oregonlive.com)
leaders at the Oregon Department of Education and members of the state school board said requiring all students to pass one of several standardized tests or create an in-depth assignment their teacher judged as meeting state standards was a harmful hurdle for historically marginalized students, a misuse of state tests and did...
Employees threatened with loss of healthcare if they strike. Their employer is a hospital and they're nurses. (www.oregonlive.com)
One of the main reasons employers want to keep healthcare private; enormous leverage against labor, organized or not…
Mystery of the slime on Willamette River near Portland solved (www.oregonlive.com)
Federal civil rights claim can proceed against ex-Umatilla police sergeant in botched sexual assault investigation (www.oregonlive.com)
A federal civil rights claim can proceed against a former Umatilla police sergeant accused of failing to do much of anything to investigate the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl because of her gender....
Federal civil rights claim can proceed against ex-Umatilla police sergeant in botched sexual assault investigation (www.oregonlive.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6942995...
Likely culprit found for recent gray whale die-off: declines in sea ice cover that lead to a dearth of the crustaceans that gray whales love to eat. (www.oregonlive.com)
The paper is here
Casual runners aren't wearing Nikes? Oh the shock. (www.oregonlive.com)
For most folks, once they’re semi-regular runners, cost and turnover of shoes becomes a factor....
Portland needs affordable housing. Churches have unused land. It’s a match made in heaven (www.oregonlive.com)
Portland police break Tesla car-theft ring, herald decline in reported car thefts (www.oregonlive.com)
Oregon motorist who threatened a ‘shootout’ with police, fled at more than 100 mph, gets 15-year prison term (www.oregonlive.com)
MLS suspends Aljaz Ivacic for threatening language toward Portland Timbers staff (www.oregonlive.com)
Damian Lillard traded (www.oregonlive.com)
Whether you like basketball or not, the Damian Lillard trade today sees Portland lose a stalwart of class, low drama and accountability in a media age of pithy, immature sound bytes end egomaniacs. Personally wish the guy all the best in Milwaukee and will be rooting for the Bucks in the east!
Portland transportation bureau to propose $32 million in budget cuts (www.oregonlive.com)
Here’s how much every Portland city employee got paid last year (www.oregonlive.com)
There’s a chart that may not load on mobile, look for the “Click Here” link.
Street racer who killed young mother at bus stop gets only 5 years prison time. (www.oregonlive.com)
These man children playing with their toys and what is the punishment, only 5 years? The victim’s child, who will now be 7 has no mother for the rest of his life....