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How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations “The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.

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Nearly 1,900 affordable Portland apartments sit empty while thousands need homes “Even affordable rents are too high,” one affordable housing provider told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Wow. Affordable housing units are sitting empty in Portland, amid a housing crisis. A big reason: "affordable" housing rents in many cases are as expensive as market rates.

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Demand for Indigenous language interpreters has surged in Oregon. This group is helping meet it “I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have the Collective, honestly."

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Oregon lawmakers press education officials on backlog of school discrimination claims The state has only met its own deadline in 12.6% of cases since 2019, prompting lawmakers to demand accountability in a Senate hearing this week.

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A chart shows the groups of Oregon students with the highest chronic absenteeism rates. 56% of homeless students were chronically absent last school year, as were 52% of Pacific Islander students and 47% of low-income students.

Here are the student groups most impacted by Oregon's chronic absenteeism problem:

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Portland grapples with how to shore up 1 high school without imperiling 3 others As Portland Public Schools readies a massive renovation of Jefferson High School, the district faces some pushback against proposals to boost enrollment by ending a high school choice policy.

Portland Public Schools has declined to forecast school enrollment impacts of a key policy proposal past 2031.

The Oregonian ran projections. Here's what we found:

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Yurok tribal attorney chronicles family’s fight to save the Klamath River and a way of life "Treat the earth, not as a resource, but as a relative," said Ashland resident Amy Bowers Cordalis, who has written a memoir about her family's generations-long efforts for the river that now flows fr...

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They sued Oregon when kids suffered or died. State attorneys shifted blame – to parents Facing negligence lawsuits, the state has sometimes sued parents not otherwise accused of their children’s abuse. Oregon’s new attorney general told his staff to dial it back.

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Oregon doesn’t have enough dentists willing to help low-income kids. Here’s why With reimbursement rates far below neighboring states, most Oregon counties lack enough dental providers for Medicaid patients.

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Oregon has a program to pay seniors’ property tax bills, but few people use it It's not free money, but the program could help some people stay in their homes.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection hasn't explained why armed agents stopped teens at a Dutch Bros drive-thru in Hillsboro, and they say there's no urgency to explain:

“In all fairness the incident is almost a month and a half old, so it’s not breaking news," a spokesperson told The Oregonian.

Video shows armed immigration agents surround Oregon high schoolers at coffee shop “They just came out of nowhere and just started, like, swarming,” one terrified barista told a 911 dispatcher.

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Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files

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Whistleblower sues Oregon over school funding formula that shortchanges poor students A former state employee lost his job after he tried to alert lawmakers to problems with how the state calculates the extra funding it gives school districts for the costs of educating students from lo...

"We don't talk about Bruno"

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ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi Homeland Security confirmed the agents were looking for someone else when they broke into the men’s Gresham apartment.

ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi

Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.

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Feds told Oregon grocers they couldn’t offer 10% off to SNAP recipients, so they got creative The honor system is in place at three Oregon stores, now offering discounts to all who need it.

Feds told Oregon grocers they couldn’t offer 10% off to SNAP recipients, so they got creative
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It’s taken the state of Oregon more than 18 months to fill two key jobs. Here’s why As the jobs sat empty, families routinely waited more than a year for the state to investigate discrimination claims against schools.

It's taken the state of Oregon more than 18 months to fill two key jobs.

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ICE detention of Oregon business owner highlights conflicting immigration policies Victor Cruz-Gamez received work authorization from one arm of Homeland Security, while another seeks to deport him after a case of mistaken identity.

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Portland schools go on lockdown due to immigration enforcement activity The district wrote to parents and staff that school leaders are developing dismissal plans to ensure students can return home safely this afternoon.

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Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago The arrest appears to be among the first in which in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.

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Oregon officials will not conduct criminal investigation of errantly registered voters who cast ballots State elections officials point out that the errors were caused by DMV staff, not unlawful actions by the individuals.

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Why Oregon has 3rd highest percentage of SNAP recipients in U.S. In comparison to many states, Oregon does a stellar job of connecting people in need with federal money for food, experts say.

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AI-generated case citation that was fake draws Oregon judge’s rebuke The judge’s admonition follows an Oregon State Bar ethics opinion on the use of artificial intelligence tools in law practice.

AI workslop lands non-profit Green Building Initiative in hot water with judge:

A federal judge in Portland says he will sanction lawyers who submitted a brief to him quoting a fake legal citation and what he called a “hallucinated” case.

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ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon Authorities claim Berenice Garcia-Hernandez "aggressively followed" agents, while she says she was targeted for documenting their presence to warn the community.

ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents.

As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said.

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A top Portland political aide took in a homeless woman. He abandoned her at a state park days later "If I could do it over, I would do it differently.”

Here's an excellent story you should read by my colleague @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social :

A top Portland political aide took in a homeless woman. He abandoned her at a state park days later

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Also of note: did Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson announce a change in #pdx city policy in her response to this audit? No word from the city.

JVP said #pdx stopped enforcing 75% recycling mandate for construction waste, so the county wasn't in jeopardy for noncompliance on libraries.

Multnomah County audit highlights recycling problems on ‘green’ public works projects Auditors found that reports on recycling of construction and demolition waste from library projects were unreliable.

Multnomah County audit highlights recycling problems on ‘green’ public works projects

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National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit Portland police Cmdr. Franz Schoening testified at trial he was "startled" by federal officers' unjustified use of tear gas and other less-lethal munitions on passive protesters outside the ICE buildi...

National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit

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It’s a beautiful fall day in downtown Portland.

Federal lawyers admit errors in officer deployment numbers to Portland ICE building "We deeply regret these errors,” a U.S. Department of Justice attorney wrote to the court.

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