A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...
12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Lil’ Sambo’s Family Restaurant on Highway 101 is named after an old children’s book with racist illustrations. Now the owner faces pressure to change the name. For over 60 years, Lil’ Sambo’s Family Restaurant in Lincoln City has been a self-proclaimed “c ...
5 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Public-sector Metro workers call out systemic racism and demand employees of color be treated fairly To confront what it describes as unjust labor practices and the inequitable history of the Oregon Convention Center, the union representing Metro regional ...
28 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Some commit to staying inside until there’s a coronavirus vaccine, and some look to help In 1996, Portlander James Cox was teetering on the edge of death with his second terminal AIDS diagnosis. Healthy individuals usually have a T cell count of 500 to 1, ...
24 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
The coronavirus pandemic is changing the landscape of grief and end-of-life planning In the four months since biomedical researcher Nikki Walter died of cancer, her husband has had trouble sleeping through the night. Eric Walter has had to contend with hi ...
14 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
The discord is 'quite an ordeal' for people living outside, including those with PTSD who are troubled by loud noises Loud noises from flashbangs, the roaring of helicopters, and other tactics police are using to control the crowds of demonstrat ...
6 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
The attack appears in an hours-long video posted to YouTube under the username 'Toe Andy' June 6: This story was updated with information from Portland Police Bureau. A livestream video appearing to condone the assault of a houseless person in P ...
3 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Checks sent to state prisons were returned to the IRS, but Prison Policy Institute says incarcerated individuals need money at this time as well Prisoners in Oregon who received stimulus checks as a result of the CARES Act will never see their payments, a ...
3 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard