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  The U-S House Judiciary Committee held a mark-up session this morning on house bill 4078, also known as the Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act of 2012. The proposed bill would put a hold on U-S public protection programs until the unemployment rate reaches six percent.   K... Read more

The Portland Housing Bureau has released plans for new tax-break corridors through South East Portland neighborhoods. The proposal calls for government to forgo taxes for ten years in exchange for the inclusion of affordable housing.  For the neibhborhood perspective KBOO'... Read more

Normal 0   Senator Ron Wyden’s support of a plan that is said to privatize Medicare drew a protest at his Portland office this week   Normal 0 For the details, KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with Mary Daley with the Center for Community Change. Read more

Normal 0 Aids activists in tanzania are clashing with parents and schools over a new rule stating that students living with hiv must wear red ribbons on their school uniforms. KBOO’s Dan Johnson has more. Read more

Normal 0 The Portland Housing Bureau is proposing new tax free incentives for new housing development- as long as they include some affordable housing. According to their web site, The Housing Bureau Mission Statement is to “solve the unmet housing needs of the people of... Read more

Normal 0 Senator Ron Wyden’s support of a plan that is said to privatize Medicare drew a protest at his Portland office this week.  The protest was sponsored by Portland Jobs with Justice, the Center for Community Change, Occupy Portland, and others.  For the details, KB... Read more

Normal 0 Large numbers of Arrests associated with Occupy Portland are putting a strain on the local court system, according to a report in the Oregonian newspaper. In order to address crowding in the court system, many charges against activists are being downgraded in or... Read more

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Normal 0 City leaders have spent years attempting to give the Portland Police Bureau a dedicated facility for officer training. Recent meetings of the City Council finalized that plan. KBOO's Zeke Harrington has more. Read more

Normal 0 According to newly released Freedom of Information Act Requests, the FBI spent three years conducting surveillance out of their Portland office on peaceful activists. John Cook, a senior writer at the website Gawker, came across the name "Seizing Thunder" whi... Read more