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Multnomah County health officials concerned over rising COVID cases in the African American community Between April 1-May 25, African Americans were twice as likely to test positive for the virus and 80% more likely to be hospitalized than white people. Author: Bryant Clerkley Updated: 5:30 PM PDT June 14, 2021 PORTLAND, Ore. — Despite vaccine availability for people 12 and older, Multnomah County health officials are concerned about the increase in cases and hospitalizations within the African American community. Lead health officer Dr. Jennifer Vines said ...

Pamplin Media Group May 07 2021 Readers sound off on funding Oregon's schools, state COVID-19 restrictions and electing a new PCC board member. Lawmakers in Salem recently released their proposed education budget for the State School Fund, the operational budget for our schools. Experts recently found that if Oregon hopes to maintain current service levels for students, the operating budget must be $9.6 billion for the next biennium. The current proposed budget at $9.1 billion falls woefully short of that amount — a $500 million deficit that will directly affect students. In 2019, ...

The pandemic has taken a toll on our students over the past year-plus — particularly those living in poverty and in our Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities. That is why it is more important than ever that Oregon focuses its attention and funding priorities on our K-12 schools. Instead, legislators are considering underfunding the State School Fund by $500 million. School budget officials have concluded that just to keep pace on paying the bills over the next two years our schools need $9.6 billion — not the $9.1 billion currently under consideration. Just two years ago...

Top players in North Clackamas school board election not on ballot School officials running for reelection face campaigns supported by former state representative Two of the most important figures in the future of the North Clackamas School Board are not on the May 18 ballot. North Clackamas School Board Chair Libra Forde and former state Rep. Patrick Sheehan, R-Happy Valley, were on opposite sides of the 2019 naming of the district's new high school after Adrienne C. Nelson, the first Black woman to become an Oregon Supreme Court justice. Forde and Sheehan are now associated with tw...

Latest event at Portland’s ‘red house’ generates nearly 2 dozen 911 calls Updated Apr 29, 2021; Posted Apr 28, 2021 Scenes from the red house on North Mississippi Street in Portland, April 28, 2021. Beth Nakamura/StaffThe Oregonian Facebook Share The North Portland property where police and protesters engaged in a tense standoff late last year was the site of a large party Tuesday that spilled into the surrounding neighborhood and prompted nearly two dozen 911 calls. The party at the so-called “red house” was advertised on Instagram, featured live music and drew between 100 and 15...