• about-urban-development
• Governor-Kate-Brown
• Black-community

Details

Written by Associated Press

Published: 10 September 2021

(AP Photo/Don Ryan, file) 

The Oregon Transportation Commission has granted conditional approval to a plan to expand Interstate 5,  as well as build a cap over the freeway to allow for the redevelopment of a Black community destroyed when the interstate was first built.

• about-portland-police
• about-Mayor-Ted-Wheeler
• about-protesters
• HPfeature

Details

Written by By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America

Published: 09 September 2021

 

Nearly three weeks after armed far-right and far-left protesters violently clashed in the streets of a diverse neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, the city's mayor said the lack of police intervention was “not the right strategy."

• about-Vancouver-washington
• about-back-to-school
• facemasks
• HPfeature

Details

Written by The Skanner News

Published: 09 September 2021

Skyview High School senior Dylan Walker, 18, shows his support for masks in school during a demonstration with classmates and other protesters in Vancouver, Wash., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP) 

Officials said they sought the injunction after people protesting a school mask requirement came onto the Skyview High School campus Friday, prompting lockdowns at several schools.

• about-cannabis-tax-act
• about-recycling
• taxes

Details

Written by Jessica Heiges, University of California, Berkeley and Kate O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley

Published: 08 September 2021

(Photo/ sofisorgin) 

Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about 28% U.S. municipal solid waste. 

• Tuskegee-Medical-Experiment
• Saundra Sorenson
• COVID-19 Vaccine
• HPfeature

Details

Written by Saundra Sorenson

Published: 08 September 2021

Clifford Chappell, senior pastor of St. Johns All Nations Church of God in Christ in Portland 

Religious and health care leaders share their own vaccination stories.

• Governor-Kate-Brown
• COVID-19
• Delta-variant
• HPfeature

Details

Written by By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America

Published: 08 September 2021

Governor Kate Brown 

Gov. Kate Brown, alongside state health and education officials, urged Oregonians on Tuesday to wear masks and get vaccinated as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to run rampant.

• genealogical-forum-of-oregon
• Saundra Sorenson
• HPfeature

Details

Written by Saundra Sorenson

Published: 02 September 2021

Kenneth Forman and his son (Photo/Laurel Smith) 

How a conscientious stranger, the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, and The Skanner teamed up to find the Foremans.

• about-Seattle
• about-homelessness
• HPfeature

Details

Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press

Published: 01 September 2021

(Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP) 

Backers of a measure that would change Seattle’s approach to homelessness are appealing a judge’s decision that blocked it from the November ballot.

• about-Tina-Kotek
• Governor-Kate-Brown
• House-Speaker-Tina-Kotek
• HPfeature

Details

Written by The Associated Press

Published: 01 September 2021

(Photo/The Skanner Archives) 

Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat like Kotek, cannot run for re-election in 2022 due to term limits.

• about-Redistricting
• Saundra Sorenson
• HPfeature

Details

Written by Saundra Sorenson

Published: 31 August 2021

 

Creating sixth Congressional district should be person-centered work, Democrats say.