Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley wrote to Colette Peters, formerly the head of Oregon’s Department of Corrections and now federal prison director, demanding answers to claims that inmates taking legal steps to protest conditions at Sheridan have been subjected to violence and retaliation
READ MOREThe declaration bans camping along “priority routes to and from schools” and within 150 feet of school buildings
READ MOREThe incident happened after the rodeo when he had four beers and then lit a cigarette. A woman asked him to put it out.
READ MOREGuidelines for preserving public records require that texts and other communications by local elected officials about public business be kept for at least two years before being transferred to the state’s archives “for appraisal and selective retention.”
READ MOREThe executive director of the Office of Public Defense Services, Stephen Singer, was fired by an oversight panel. Critics cited an abrasive, combative style Singer brought to his job.
READ MOREMultnomah County, which includes Portland, will offer people places to stay cool Wednesday as temperatures potentially reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit
READ MORERegister for this free event to be held at Open Signal in Northeast Portland. Survivors and relatives of survivors of Vanport are especially encouraged to attend.
READ MOREBrown Hope’s Black Resilience Fund argues the impact of direct cash payments.
READ MORECriminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
READ MOREWilbur Slockish Jr. has been shot at, had rocks hurled at him. He hid underground for months, and then spent 20 months serving time in federal prisons across the country — all of that for fishing in the Columbia River.
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