It looks all but certain that Oregonians will be voting in a special election in January on whether to uphold the $733 million tax package approved by the Democratic-led Legislature. Opponents on Friday turned in what they said were more than enough petition signatures to force a referendum vote on the taxes.
Oregon House Republicans are looking beyond the January vote and are hoping to use anti-tax sentiment as their top campaign issue against swing-district House Democrats who backed the tax hikes.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. House this week approved a bill to rename a northeast Portland post office for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Rupert Kinnard's career in graphic design is headed for another innovation: an electronic memoir that includes art, personal stories, and memorabilia that can be published in a book or even on the Internet with videos and music. He calls it the Life Capsule Project, and he hopes it will catch on with anyone interested in setting down their own life story ....

Join Dr. William A. Guillory, considered by many to be one of the most dynamic transformational speakers, and conference and seminar facilitators of our time will be at the annual Minority Enterprise Development Week celebration to recognize outstanding minority-owned businesses in Oregon and SW Washington at the Oregon Convention Center ...

Emerge, the national group that trains Democratic women to run for office, will be graduating their first class in Oregon on Oct. 3. On Oct. 15, Emerge is holding a meeting at the Urban League of Portland from 6 to 8 p.m. to discuss the upcoming 2010 mentorship class, scheduled to start in February 2010

Despite efforts by prosecutors to label murder defendant Jerrin Hickman as a member of a criminal gang, Judge Michael Marcus said doing so could unfairly bias the jury. Hickman is being tried for the Dec. 31, 2007 murder of Christopher Adam Monette. Monette was shot outside a party at 8407 N.E. Thompson St. by a man in a ski mask...

Pastor Mary Overstreet Smith has found a home for her Sir J. Millage Autistic Drop-Off Center. It was sitting under her nose all along...

Seattle schools will unveil its proposed student assignment plan at a workshop Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the John Stanford Center auditorium...

The Garlington Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. reopened Friday, Sept. 11, with a ceremony, followed by a picnic and celebration on Saturday ...

Attention: The 1 Bedroom Apartment waitlist for Ritzdorf Court Apartments is closed as of September…