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Greg Evans, a Black man who joined a parade of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, says the issue is personal for him: A family memb

Local city councilor calls on state lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, a racist symbol In Virginia, displaying a noose in public places is now a felony, with a maximum prison term of five years. Posted: Mar 3, 2021 7:59 PM Posted By: Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Greg Evans, a Black man who joined a parade of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, said the issue was personal for him: A member of his family had been lynched over a century ago in South Carolina. “He was killed basically for offending a white man,” Evans, a member of the Eugene City C...

One of the witnesses at the hearing Tuesday for the Oregon bill described the effect of the placement of a noose last May at a Portland State University construction site.

SALEM, Ore. - Greg Evans, a Black man who joined a parade of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, said the issue was personal...

Register-Guard Put green to use on green energy  It’s good to hear that David Anderson of NW Natural is looking to the future. Too bad he is just focused on his company’s future profits. No one wants to see his customers (me included) freeze. We just want his company to stop trying to add more gas-dependent customers by building more pipelines. NW Natural shouldn’t act like all those buggy-whip manufacturers that ignored the future and went out of business. It should think like the ones who innovated and stayed in business.  As Anderson knows, climate change is real, and respond...