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If you're a felon, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna wants to make sure you can't vote until you're no longer under the jurisdiction of the state.
This week, the state's top law enforcement officer traveled to San Francisco to argue before an 11-member panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to strike down a January 2010 decision that found the state's prohibition on prisoner suffrage violated the Voting Rights Act

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Low tax collections are driving a new state budget deficit of about $520 million through mid-2011, leading to spending cuts of about 6.3 percent from Gov. Chris Gregoire.

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The last time a quake struck Oregon was over 310 years ago.
Experts predict that another could happen any year now.
So when the next big earthquake rolls through Portland, how prepared for our town's destruction will you be?

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A woman riding a bike was injured Wednesday morning at the corner of NE Couch Street and Grand Avenue. The right-hook crash became the first crash after the Portland Department of Transportation labeled the intersection their number one priority for a green "bike box," as reported on bikeportland.org.

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A beloved Portlander and pioneering Oregon pharmacist, Lawrence Edward ("Ed") Caldwell, Jr., 77, passed away peacefully on Sept. 7, 2010.
Ed's accomplishments in pharmacy were many. In 1960, Ed became the first African-American graduate of Oregon State University's College of Pharmacy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science and the coveted Kilmer Prize for research in pharmacognosy

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Reginald Andre Jackson says Newbery Winner 'Bud, Not Buddy' was a dream to adapt into a play

Playwright Reginald Andre Jackson admits he got lucky. Lucky he was commissioned to create a play from a novel with good source material. Lucky the author actually liked the performance. And lucky it was actually published.  But luck had little to do with the hard work Jackson put into ...

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