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2022 Elections | Oregon Ballot Measures

statement is inaccurate: the measure removes what is commonly known as a “slavery loophole”— language ... minority party — have been known to flee the Capitol in order to prevent votes from going forward and ... magazines save lives and requiring a permit-to-purchase effectively reduces firearm homicide and suicide ...

21 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel and Mia Ryder-Marks and Melanie Henshaw
2022 Elections | Portland City Council and City Auditor’s race

a multifaceted partnership model for addressing homelessness. Government-funded long-term housing, also known as ... city is currently building. PSU is well-known for working with homeless Portlanders in formulating ...

7 May 2022 - Street Roots
Opinion | Permits for outdoor dining should continue

this permit also has support from several business associations, a type of organization not known in ... homicidal and property incinerating role automobiles play in our society — a record number of Portlanders ...

16 Dec 2021 - Henry Latourett...
Opinion | Black Lives Matter protests have saved lives, study finds

experienced a 15% to 20% decrease in police homicides from 2014 to 2019 — around 300 fewer deaths. “The gap in ... Ferguson, Missouri. The protests continued, as did the police killings, among the most well-known victims ... media organizations that do maintain a public record. The most important include The Homicide Report by ...

26 May 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Remembering the trans people who have been killed

each year. In the first 20 weeks of 2021, there have already been 26 homicides in the U.S. and Puerto ... as they released balloons to remember her life. Alexus Braxton, also known as Kimmy Icon Braxton, ... She was known to say, “I have to be cute, honey!” Rayanna Pardo, a 26-year-old Latina trans woman, was ...

19 May 2021 - Street Roots
The trauma of incarceration: It’s ‘gladiator school’ inside

lesser-known aspect of what it means to be incarcerated in America. Many of these stories echo the accounts of ... on prior research that about 2% of deaths in custody each year are due to homicide, for example. We ...

3 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Punishment is no cure for addiction: Morgan Godvin pushes for prison reform

sentenced under what’s known as the Len Bias Law, named for a Maryland basketball star who died of a cocaine ... imposes mandatory minimums for homicide by overdose. It requires a sentence of four to 10 years for ... advocate for prison reform and an outspoken critic of mandatory minimum sentencing for homicide by ...

19 Jul 2019 - Victoria Lewis
Case Unclosed

Daul, a member of the homicide detail, notes grimly. “It was excessive.” Wilson’s body was not ... her, visited social services, asking anyone if they had known Don Wilson. But almost two years later, ... information allowing her to finally make an arrest. The case of Don Wilson is her only unsolved homicide. It ...

9 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
Recurring nightmare of justice: The life and music of Joe Hill

was the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the One Big Union known as the Wobblies on ... arrested and charged with homicide. The same night as the killing, Hill showed up at a physician’s home ... been arrested for vagrancy. But he was a known member of a radical union. His affiliation with the IWW ...

8 Mar 2016 - Joe Martin
Memorial service set for Jack Dale Collins

diagram shows an x-acto knife and four shell casings. His death was ruled a homicide by the medical ... examiner. No criminal wrong doing was found by the grand jury who heard the case. Jack, also known as Jackie ... or Old Man Jackie Collins, lived on the streets of Portland for over twenty years. He was known as ...

23 Apr 2010 - Street Roots