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KBOO reporter Isobel Charle spoke with an Oregon activist volunteering in the West Bank in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel’s apartheid wall. Read more

   Monday’s You Tube coverage of the federal same-sex marriage case was put hold on just before the start of the trial. Some legal experts say that an emergency “stay” order is unusual in a non-criminal case such as this one. This would have been one of the first feder... Read more

       News accounts over the past years have told of one suicide after another among young veterans and members of the military.  Now, the Department of Veterans affairs has some hard data to go with this anecdotal evidence. It has announced that the suicide rate ... Read more

    Several Oregonians who are apart of a march and rally in support of the people of Gaza.   Read more

  In Black Mesa, Arizona, the indigenous hopi and navaho nations are celebrating a victory. The U.S. Department of Interior has denied Peabody Western Coal Company the right to expand its operations in the area. The decision came in response to the latest of several app... Read more

British Parliament Member George Galloway has been deported and banned from entering Egypt, after successfully leading a humanitarian aid caravan into the Gaza Strip. Galloway’s ‘Viva Palestina’ convoy faced a number of obstacles while trying to bring over two hundred ve... Read more

                               The City’s Transportation Department has released the Final Draft of its Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030. The draft was released in early October, and the public was able to comment on it until mid-November. There was plenty of feedback ... Read more

A new Immigration reform bill in Congress has the support of many immigrant rights groups. Now Earl Blumenauer is standing behind it as well. KBOO’s Stefan Kamp has the story. Read more

Measures 66 and 67 are due to go before Oregon voters on January 26th. The measures will impose modest tax increases on the wealthiest two percent of Oregonians in order to fund schools, health care and public safety. Supporters of Oregon ballot measures 66 and 67 say ... Read more