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(Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) 

An Oregon school board that acted last month to ban educators from displaying Black Lives Matter and gay pride symbols has broadened the policy to include all types of political symbols.

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(Photo Felipe Galvan) 

The Seattle City Council approved two bills on Monday. They are the latest of new landlord-tenant regulations including bans on some evictions and the right to a lawyer for low-income tenants facing eviction

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The congressional map, which House Republicans described as gerrymandered and boycotted on Saturday by staging a walkout, passed in the House and Senate on party-line votes

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The offenses have been labeled as “Unlawful Street Takeover” and “Unlawful Staging of a Street Takeover Event.”

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Republicans failed to show up for a session to redraw the state's congressional districts Saturday, thwarting majority Democrats’ attempts to pass new political maps before a looming deadline

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(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) 

An Oregon school board has banned educators from displaying Black Lives Matter and gay pride symbols, prompting a torrent of recriminations and threats to boycott the town and its businesses.

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Photo courtesy of City of Seattle 

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture today announced that a new, long-term Black Lives Matter public art piece has been installed at Seattle City Hall.

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A Black man was shot and killed outside a bar by a white man in central Oregon

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Physician Bukhosi Dube has been named as Chief Medical Officer at Cascadia Behavioral Health.  

Dr. Bukhosi Dube will lead innovative “integrative health” model

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Columbia Park in NE Portland 

Two activists created a website to inform the most climate-vulnerable on how to take action.

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