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  1. 16 hours ago

    Arte Soleil is a tiny art space in one of the outermost corners of Portland. The venue is trying to fill a gaping hole in the neighborhood's arts infrastructure.

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  2. 21 hours ago

    Lawmakers are scaling back a bill to limit use of the death penalty in Oregon. Killing law enforcement officers would still be punishable by death, under a forthcoming amendment.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    Pendleton can no longer jail people for inability to pay court debt.

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  4. 23 hours ago

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  5. Jun 15

    NOAA is looking for waterfront volunteers to allow dead whales to decompose on their beaches. Any takers?

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  6. Jun 14

    Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader wants the director of the Bureau of Indian Education out. This follows a combative congressional hearing on management and oversight of Chemawa Indian School.

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  7. Jun 14

    Waverly Greens apartments in Milwaukie just got a little greener. The owners Friday unveiled Oregon’s largest solar array to be installed on multifamily housing.

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    Jun 14

    “I don’t know if it is an intentional bias or not ... but the result is that we are being given sort of a rose-colored glasses picture of the world.” Oregon Board of Forestry members are starting to question the state's info:

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  9. Jun 14

    Oh, you mean ’s free piles?

    So Portland folks have this weird habit of putting stuff alongside streets for people to take. It’s often slightly damaged furniture. I feel like other cities do this, but not as much as . Anyway, last night a perfectly good wine glass & 2 dinner plates appeared.
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  10. Jun 14

    This isn’t ’s first crack at leading the charge in hemp research. The university that is now OSU hosted a national research center from the 1880s until prohibition began in the 1930s.

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  11. Jun 14

    In today’s First Look: The costs of bird poop; Who’s watching loggers? ’s Port of Kalama claps back at a methanol facility; and we take our snowboards to Oregon’s sand dunes. Want stories like these delivered to you? Sign up:

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  12. Jun 14

    There are nearly 10,000 cormorants nesting (and pooping) on the Astoria-Megler Bridge. That poop can corrode the bridge. What are transportation officials to do about all of that 💩?

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  13. Jun 13

    Large tuition increases approved for three Oregon universities. • Southern Oregon University ⬆️ 10% • University of Oregon ⬆️ 6.9% • Oregon Institute of Technology ⬆️ 6 %

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  14. Jun 13

    Power companies have taken a lot of blame for devastating California wildfires in recent years. Now, this Oregon utility is changing policies in hopes of learning from our southern neighbors.

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  15. Jun 13

    🦵 This bill has legs.

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    Jun 13

    The Higher Education Coordinating Commission approves tuition increases for (6%), (10%), and (6.91%). Story coming soon.

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  17. Jun 13

    A lease amendment ensures the methanol from southwest Washington will only go toward making plastics and other materials, port officials say.

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  18. Jun 13

    This may be the only article you read today that uses the term "microbe farts."

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    Jun 13

    With just weeks left in Oregon’s legislative session, Democratic leaders have put another contentious issue on their to-do list: a tobacco tax hike.

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    Jun 13

    . announced today that she has chosen Division Chief Sara Boone as 's next Fire Chief. Boone was Portland Fire and Rescue's first black female firefighter in 1995 and now she'll be Portland's first black Fire Chief.

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