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Schoo's Out Forever At Two Oregon Jailsnew
Mount Hood Community College -- the community partner that has led GED classes at Inverness Jail and the Multnomah County Detention Center for nearly 10 years -- is ending its GED program as it grapples with a tight budget.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
06-17-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Oregon Episcopal School's Headmaster Resigns After Racy Emails Surfacenew
The headmaster at Oregon Episcopal School resigned Monday after suggestive emails he sent from his work account to another man circulated among parents.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
06-03-2009 |
Education
Can Portland Score a Big-League Soccer Deal?new
Why did Portland Commissioner Randy Leonard fight for a Major League Soccer team? And what are the chances he can close the deal? After all, there’s now a $15 million hole in the package, shaky financial assumptions and a trail of local leaders upset by his brash approach.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
04-01-2009 |
Policy Issues
A Well-Meaning Bill Would Strengthen Anti-Bullying Rules in Oregon Schoolsnew
A new bill in the Oregon Legislature would require that public schools report to state officials what groups of students are being targeted by bullies.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
02-25-2009 |
Education
The Killing in Room 515new
Three weeks after fatally stabbing his neighbor, Melvin Earl Parker is back in his apartment.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
02-25-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Horse Race: Portland City Bureaus Jockey for Money Amid a Grim Budget Forecastnew
City agencies in Portland must make even deeper cuts than expected, city commissioners say. In some cases, that means bureaus will be slashing more than 5 percent from their budgets for the next fiscal year.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
01-21-2009 |
Policy Issues
University Taps Profs to Take Classes in Unique Effort to Boost Enrollmentnew
When Eastern Oregon University's enrollment hit a low in 2005, administrators started battling to reverse the trend, which was threatening the La Grande campus' overall financial health. Three years later, they've hit upon a novel idea.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-30-2008 |
Education
Russ Feingold on Where He's Agreed with McCain ... and Disagreed with Obamanew
Feingold talked with WW about his disagreements with Obama over FISA, which granted immunity to telecoms participating in Bush's eavesdropping program. He also talked about how being forever associated with McCain as a result of their pioneering campaign finance reform law is nothing like having the name of an ex-girlfriend tattooed on your biceps.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-08-2008 |
Politics
The Trucked-Up Politics of NAFTAnew
Backed by some of America's most powerful unions, Democrats Barack Obama and Jeff Merkley -- who's challenging Sen. Gordon Smith -- say they want to protect U.S. jobs by reforming international trade deals such as the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. We go to Mexico to see what it's doing there.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-01-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tres Strikes for Sen. Gordon Smithnew
How an undocumented immigrant worked at Smith Frozen Foods for nearly a decade.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
09-24-2008 |
Immigration
What's Sen. Gordon Smith Hiding at His Food Processing Plant?new
Low-wage Latino workers keep Smith's family business -- Smith Frozen Foods -- humming. But not all of them are legal.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
09-10-2008 |
Politics
Are Portland Students Buying P.E. Credits?new
More than 100 high-school students in Portland Public Schools will opt out of their state-required physical-education classes this year. Instead, many of them will earn their P.E. credits from an alternative operation called Quest Schools, based in Tigard.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
09-03-2008 |
Education
Activists Want Portland to be a Sanctuary for AWOL Soldiersnew
A coalition of activists called PDX Peace is gathering signatures to make Portland America's third "Sanctuary City" for military deserters, along with San Francisco and Berkeley. And they want the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would protect war resisters by blocking Portland police from acting on federal orders to arrest AWOL soldiers.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
07-23-2008 |
War
Tags: Iraq, AWOL, Afghanistan, soldiers, Portland, deportation, war & peace, Sanctuary City, PDX Peace
University Advocates to Oregon: Hands Off Our Millionsnew
As a result of a decades-old formula, students who together pay about $500 million a year in Oregon tuition and fees unknowingly send their money to the state's general fund. There, the interest earned on their tuition isn't automatically returned to the state's higher-education budget.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
07-16-2008 |
Education
Did Hannah Bea's Close Because of Gentrification?new
When the restaurant does shut down, owner Anita Smith will owe taxpayers $143,000. But don't expect contrition from Smith; she's far too angry at the Portland Development Commission and gentrification for the uncertainty she says is driving the closure.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
06-25-2008 |
Food+Drink
