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Tualatin Shooting: 2 Dead, 2 Others Injured In Suburban Portland Shooting (VIDEO)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Drug Testing Center, Strip Mall Shooting, Tualatin Shooting, Portland, Legacy Metro Drug Testing Center, Portland Shooting, Tualatin Drug Testing, Oregon, Home News

UPDATE 7:45PM: Tualatin Police Chief Kent Barker told HuffPost that the male shooter was in a relationship with the female victim, who worked at Legac...

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Calvin Hoover Charged: Oregon Man Accused Of Drunk Driving After 911 Call

AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | Home

Read More: Drunk Driving, Marion County Sheriff, Salem, Dui, Stolen Pot, Calvin Hoover, Oregon, Crime, Marijuana, Alcohol, Home News

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher could...

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An Historic and Emotional Moment

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Hate Crimes, Barack Obama, Earl Blumenauer, Oregon, White House, Matthew Shepard, Human Rights Campaign, Mike Quigley, Politics News
Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Today, after too many years of delay, President Obama signed into law a bill that makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.

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Cost of Beer Unlikely To Fall Despite Plummeting Hops Prices, Crop Surplus

oregonlive.com | John Foyston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Farming, Beer, Agriculture, Washington, Crop Shortage, Oregon, Hops, Harvesting, Business News

The hops shortage of 2007 is over, buried in a glut of unsold hops. Don't expect craft beer prices to follow -- the $5 pint and $9 six-pack are likely...

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Meet the New Health Care Reform, Same as the Old Health Care Reform

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uninsured, Minnesota, Public Option, Tennessee, Washington, Health Care Reform, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, Maine, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

We will get the incremental health care reforms we were promised. Things will likely get better in the short term. Then, since we didn't contain costs, we'll need to enact real reform. Or, things will go right back to the status quo.

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Legalize It and I Will Industrialize It: Industrial Hemp Is the Engine to Kickstart This Economy

Anna Brones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Vote Hemp, Oregon, North America, Hemp, Living Harvest, Marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration, Industrial Hemp, Reefer Madness, Livity, Naturally Advanced Technologies, Ecotextiles, Green News
Anna Brones

Multipurpose and versatile -- hemp makes its way into everything from ice cream to paint to clothing -- hemp could be called the wonder resource.

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Hummer's Now History -- Here's How It Started

Steve Parker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Saddle Peak Lodge, Paris Dakar Rally, American Motors, California, Gulf War, Indiana, Nascar, AM General, Robby Gordon, Cars, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles, Jim Armour, Rod Hall, Los Angeles Auto Show, Irs, Kindergarten Cop, General Motors, Baja California, Humvee, Jeep, Mishawaka, Oregon, Business News
Steve Parker

Somewhere, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has tears in his eyes. His favorite vehicle, Hummer, has left the building. Its sale was announce...

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Why Is Obama Trying to Crush Primaries That Would Help Him Overcome His Legislative Obstacles?

David Sirota | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Joe Sestak, Oregon, Ned Lamont, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

The most significant news about Obama's democracy-crushing efforts in Pennsylvania, Colorado and New York is not what it says about his integrity, but what it says about his political priorities.

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"Mercy Killing": When Love & Law Conflict

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Medical Ethics, Jim Fish, Politics, Montana, Right to Die, Crime, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Washington, Oregon, Paul Weinstein, Euthanasia, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

The blame in two murder cases rests squarely with a society that forces devoted husbands and wives to choose between the welfare of their spouses and the letter of the law.

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Brooke Wilberger: Woman's Remains Found After Killer Cooperates

AP | WILLIAM McCALL | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Oregon, Joel Courtney, Crime, Corvallis, Brooke Wilberger, BYU, Bringham Young University, Home News

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Five years after college student Brooke Wilberger disappeared, a man arrested in her abduction pleaded guilty to murder and po...

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A Double Whammy for Animal Shelters

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Taxes, Pets, Animals, Recession, Economy, Voting, Oregon, Lincoln County, Animal Shelters, Green News
Michael Markarian

Most people wouldn't imagine living in an area with no school, no hospital, no police, no road maintenance, or no trash collection. An animal shelter, too, is a community institution, and shouldn't be allowed to go under.

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LeGarrette Blount Suspended For Season By Oregon

AP | ANNE M. PETERSON, AP Sports Writer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: LeGarrette Blount Suspended, Sports, LeGarrette Blount, Legarrette Blount Punch, LeGarrette Blount Sucker Punch, Legarrette Blount Video, Oregon, Home News

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Foreclosure Woes Spreading To Good Borrowers In Unexpected States

npr.org | Kevin Whitelaw | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Illinois, Realtytrac, Business News

Amid record levels of home foreclosures nationwide, there are worrying signs that the foreclosure crisis could be spreading to parts of the country th...

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Age, Writing and Workshops

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Tin House Books, Portland Oregon, American Literature, Media, Tin House, Career Change, Oregon, Writing Tips, The Balanced Life, Literary Culture, Fiction, Poetry, Living News
Marcia DeSanctis

Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.

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US Congress: Keep Your Word to Abused Women

Meghan Rhoad | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, House of Representatives, Abuse, Violence Against Women, Emergency Shelter, Portland, Budget, Economic Crisis, Oregon, Appropriations, Pregnancy, Joe Biden, Women's Health, Family Violence, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Meghan Rhoad

When Michelle arrived at the shelter in Portland, Oregon, staff members had to help her remove her earring because the side of her face was so swollen from the last beating by her abuser.

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Arthur Delaney

Michigan: Surging Unemployment, Shrinking Safety Net

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Welfare, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, South Caroline, Unemployment Rate, Michigan, Oregon, Business News

Welfare rolls are swelling in states across the country as unemployment rates surge -- except in Michigan. With an unemployment rate of 14.1 percent...

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Health Care: Lobbyists, Blue Dogs and the 'No, We Can't Coalition'

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Ron Wyden, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Lobbyists, Oregon, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

A surprising number of Democrats are saying no to real health care reform.

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Oregon's $175M Stimulus Puts People To Work

News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Oregon's Stimulus, Stimulus, Oregon, Business News

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Roughly 80 percent of the 547 projects funded by the state's $175 million stimulus package have started putting people to work and...

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State Fairness

Kate Clinton | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, State Fair, Dc, Gay Marriage, Oregon, Politics News
Kate Clinton

Beneath the surface of our national marriage equality state map, the collaborative effort of national LGBT and legal organizations has engineered a strategic sequencing.

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Wal-Mart Becomes Oregon's Welfare Queen

Al Norman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business

Read More: "Betsy" Credits, Oregon, Welfare Queen, Renewable Energy Credits, Wal-Mart, Solar World, Business News
Al Norman

If Wal-Mart is a good corporate citizen, they will give the windfall back to the taxpayers. If they don't, maybe Oregon shoppers will find the energy to shop elsewhere.

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Will Detroit Budget Cuts Doom US in World EV Market?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sonoma County, Audi R8, Lithium-Ion Battery, Automotive News, San Diego, Beijing, Oregon, Yokohama, Cars, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Detroit News, Clean Diesel, Audi Q7 TDI, General Motors, Ireland, Portugal, Douglas MacArthur, Keith Bradsher, Chery, Biofuels, Detroit Three, Ford, Starbucks Coffee, Tucson, Eamon Ryan, Renault Nissan Electric Cars, Japan, Chrysler, Israel, Tennessee, Mitsubishi -MiEV, NY Times, Yuasa Battery, Denmark, Monaco, Kanagawa, Auto Bailout, Detroit-Michigan, Business News
Steve Parker

The perfect financial storm decimating the US auto sector could result in the nation's largest manufacturing industry falling even farther behind overseas competitors when it comes to EVs.

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Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Altria, Supreme Court, Big Tobacco, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Oregon, Politics News
Rob Kall

It is outrageously wrong that Altria/R.J. Reynolds tobacco could, because of its immense wealth and deep pockets, delay and abuse the Supreme Court system.

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Taxing Bonuses: A Matter of Fundamental Fairness

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Aig, Congress, Wall Street Bonuses, Aig Bonuses, Earl Blumenauer, Oregon, Economy, Bank Bonuses, Recession, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Financial Crisis, Aig Federal Bailouts, Bonuses, AIG Scandal, Politics News
Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Giving out $18 billion in bonuses at a time when ordinary Americans have seen their life savings collapse is outrageous. To give out these bonuses using federal bailout money is over the edge.

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Indigeous People Ask: "Where is the Outrage?"

Tim Giago | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elsie Boudreau, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaskans, Catholic Church, Jesuit Priests, Native Americans, Indian Affairs Committee Report, Diocese of San Diego, Alaska, Native American, Sexual Abuse, Indian Mission Boarding Schools, Jesuits, Oregon, Politics News
Tim Giago

When the victims of these heinous crimes were white, the horror was on every front page of every major newspaper and on the prime time news of every television station in America.

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Time to Stop the Nationalization Rhetoric, and Let the System Work

David Paul | Posted 03.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Fdic, Nationalization, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Banks Bailout, Sheila Bair, Citigroup, Oregon, Nationalizing Banks, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Nationalization, Wall Street Crisis, Bank Nationalization, Financial Crisis, Banks, Business News
David Paul

For years, America has told other countries how to deal with financial crises -- cut your losses. Clean up your balance sheets. Get on with it. This week, the stock market said the same thing.

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