With added threat of climate change and natural disasters action is needed to demine the region Once known as the land which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics — and historically renowned for its beautiful terrain, clear emerald lakes and diverse multi-ethni ...
23 Dec 2021 - Arian Berberović
OPINION: Existing outside the dominant culture can result in unintended life-changing consequences Diary of a Victims' Advocate A periodic column written by Crime Victim Advocacy Program staff at the Portland and Vancouver offices of Lutheran Commun ...
30 Jun 2021 - H. A.
FINDING FRINGE | One person’s refugee status is another’s loyalty to employers, state and country “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-to ...
27 Jun 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
COMMENTARY | Inclusive policies and practices will ensure access and support to everyone I remember fleeing the persecution of my home country and living in a refugee camp for decades. I watched people die without health care and access to vital resources ...
22 Apr 2020 - Som Subedi
DIRECTOR'S DESK | The bigotry of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is on full display Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door These are the last lines of the poem at the Statue of Liberty, set ...
16 Aug 2019 - Kaia Sand
BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
COMMENTARY | Don't think day laborers make valuable contributions to our community? Wrong. The myths surrounding day laborers are not new. Many people have misconceptions about this hardworking group of people who make up part of our communities and ...
3 May 2019 - Marvin Peña
COMMENTARY | Undercounting these communities means less representation and ultimately fewer services Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau may not seem political or imminently relevant to your life, but I can assure you it is both. The census helps dic ...
5 Apr 2019 - Emily McLain
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
COMMENTARY | We showed up with love at the fence as thousands of asylum seekers await their chance to enter the U.S. Dec. 10, the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I along with 11 others in the AF ...
28 Dec 2018 - Pat Rumer