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Uintah County residents are outraged as their commission is proposing a 73 percent property tax increase.

Uintah County commissioners have been hearing from constituents who have sticker shock over a proposed 73% property tax increase.

Portland residents are protesting plans by Portland Parks & Recreation to remove lights in city parks without having enough money to replace them immediately.

In May 1970, President Richard Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and the killing of four young people following an antiwar rally at Kent State University precipitated a nationwide student strike, soon joined by activists at Portland State. 

They were paved over and forgotten for decades. Now a cemetery garden will honor Chinese workers buried in SE Portland Today 7:00 AM On a Sunday afternoon, the Lone Fir Cemetery is serene. A handful of people stroll along the black asphalt paths that divide blocks of burial land. A man sitting beneath a towering red cedar leans back against the thick trunk, headphones on. Fresh roses blanket recent gravestones. But the southwest corner has no trees, nor gravestones or roses. The land was known as the Old Chinese Burial Ground — now Block 14 — and was used to temporarily bury early Chines...