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Food News: Oregon Legislature Passes To-Go Cocktails Bill Plus, try a new vegan restaurant, and make it to your favorite Portland restaurants before they close (some temporarily, and some forever). By Katherine Chew Hamilton 12/23/2020 at 4:57pm Soon, well able to order to-go cocktails and wine with our takeout. To-Go and Delivery Cocktails on the Horizon The Oregon legislature’s third special session of the year took place on December 21. That day lawmakers finally, passed a bill allowi...

(This story was updated Thursday, 3:30pm.)   Officials have released the name of a man who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Dalton Wednesday evening. The incident, which is still under investigation, left a New Hampshire state trooper hospitalized in critical but stable condition with gunshot wounds, according to the Department of Justice. The Attorney Generals office says Mark Clermont, 45, of Whitefield died at the scene from a gunshot wound.  According to a statement from the ...

Credit Ben McLeod / Flickr Creative Commons St. Pauls School has agreed to take new steps to comply with a 2018 settlement with the New Hampshire Department of Justice that spared the Concord boarding school from potential criminal prosecution for child endangerment. As part of the agreement, St. Pauls will hire an additional staffer and commission a new assessment of its student safety polices. The states announcement that St. Pauls will fulfill four requests made by the Attorney General comes...

Weighing The Advantages and Disadvantages Of Travel Nursing The insufficiency of registered nurses in health facilities has seen independent nursing staffing agencies rise to fill up the gaps by attracting travel nurses. A travel nurse is a registered nurse with clinical skills contracted on a short-term basis in different locations to meet those shortages. Whereas travel nurses address the nursing field’s demand and supply, let us find out the pros and cons of travel nursing. photo/ pixels ...

Mayor Durkan extends Seattle eviction moratorium, COVID relief through March 2021 Among the measures extended include a public utilities discount pilot program, temporary loading zones for restaurants and small businesses, additional parking for hospital and human services staff, and a suspension of enforcement for a 72-hour parking rule. “Our region is still very much in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Durkan said in a written release. “New cases and hospitalizations are as high as...

Gov. Inslee halts effort to dissolve Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department partnership Pierce County had been set to vote Tuesday on a proposal sponsored by County Councilmember Pam Roach, to dissolve the 38-year-old interlocal agreement Tacoma has with the county health department. Inslee’s proclamation effectively halts that effort from moving forward, putting it on ice until the state’s COVID crisis “is put to rest.” “This pause will allow public health workers to focus their ener...

WA landlord unable to collect rent for 8 months, dealing with gang activity A landlord from Yakima says she is being forced to not collect rent because of COVID-19, and has renters who she says are abusing the eviction moratorium. It’s a house she grew up in and has been renting out for 20 years to give her an additional revenue stream and to help her kids with college. She joined the Dori Monson Show to discuss. “I do have a company that handles the rental for me, and if there’s any repa...