Unions should act as AI disruptors in their communities
Americans’ trust in news sources reached a new low of 28% last year, as support for labor unions reached nearly 70%. Surging usage of artificial intelligence, or AI, to generate information threatens news reliability even further, especially as a growing number of people rely on social media or AI chat bots to source their information.…
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International Whores’ Day builds community, fights deadly stigma
A couple hundred sex workers, allies and curious passersby gathered at Laurelhurst Park on a recent sunny Monday afternoon to celebrate International Whores’ Day. The June 2 holiday honors sex workers around the world, and was started 51 years ago when about 100 sex workers took over a church in France to protest criminalization and…
Vanport Cottonwoods named state heritage trees
The Vanport community scattered after a massive flood in 1948, but a cluster of trees whose shade they might have enjoyed still grow there today. The Vanport Cottonwoods are located in a grove near the eastern end of the slough at the Portland International Raceway, constructed on the historic Vanport site. On May 29, the…
