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Candidate for Multnomah County Commissioner

The Skanner News interviewed both candidates for Multnomah County Commissioner. Here is our Q&A with Loretta Smith. Smith, a single parent who has raised a son, now a student at the University of Washington, works as a field representative for U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden in Multnomah County

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Candidate for Multnomah County Commissioner

The Skanner interviewed both the candidates for Multnomah County Commissioner. Here is our interview with Karol Collymore, who came to Portland 8 years ago to work in a development role for NARAL then went to work for the American heart Association before becoming an assistant to Multnomah County Chair, Jeff Cogen.

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Portland Police are asking the public to help find 11-year-old Lok Chante Marcellay.

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For the first time this year, two Oregon measures were evaluated by a "citizens' jury" to give voters an educated source of information about laws that will have a significant impact on the state.

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Portland-area lawmakers are spearheading an investigation into why 17-year-old Kyeron Fair was hospitalized in an intensive care unit while in the custody of Multnomah County law enforcement last month.

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For the first time this year, Oregon voters -- like Washington voters -- will be able to track their ballots online to make sure their votes are counted.

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Former state Sen. Margaret Carter challenges students to come together

After raising nine children and three times as many grandchildren Margaret Carter knows how to speak to young people.  The former state senator and current deputy director of the Oregon Department of Human Services, as well as others, spoke with the Grant High School student body on Wednesday following the murder of recent graduate Andre Payton on Sept. 26.

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Prayer, singing and celebration of his short life

Family and friends of Andre Dupree Payton pleaded for brotherly love, community and an end to the gang violence that ended the short life of their loved one, in a shooting Sept. 26. But just after the powerfully emotional service was ending, police were called out to a drive-by shooting on NE Mallory and Going Street.

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