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Marc Jolin, the director of the Joint Office of Homeless Services (JOHS) is stepping down from his role leading the department shared by both the city of Portland and Multnomah County. Jolin joined JOHS as its inaugural director in 2016, a few years after taking the helm of the county's A Home for Everyone initiative, a committee made up of regional leaders and social service experts convened in 2014 to collaboratively address the region's homeless...

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Multnomah County Commissioner Lori Stegmann will run for Multnomah County Chair in the May 2022 primary race, the commissioner announced Monday. Stegmann said she is running for the position because she wants to see Multnomah County provide more housing security services for renters and unhoused people, as well as support small businesses who have been hit hard by the pandemic. “My lived experience as an immigrant, a woman of color, and someone who grew up...

Governor Kate Brown endorsed a freeway cover design for the Interstate-5 Rose Quarter expansion project Tuesday, moving the years-long battle over freeway caps one step closer to a final design. While the Oregon Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Rose Quarter Improvement Project was initiated in 2012 to address the rush hour bottleneck on the freeway, the project has grown to include restorative justice elements for the Albina neighborhood—the historically Black neighborhood that wa...

Indianapolis middle and high school students return to full-time, in-person learning for the rest of the year