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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

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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

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

This weekend a rally was held outside the New Seasons seven corners store in response to last month’s firing of former employee Ryan Gaughan. An empoyee for almost ten years, Gaughan was fired on February seventh for allegded theft.  He contends that his termination was in... Read more

Normal 0 This Sunday, March 11th, marks the first anniversary of the melt down of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The melt-down has been referred to by industry insiders as “the worst industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.”  The General El... Read more

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