Evening News

Mayor Adams has asked each of the city’s bureaus to come up with budget cuts of four, six and eight percent. For a look into this process, KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with citizen activist Christine Yun and Jim Blackwood for the Parks Bureau.   Read more

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber outlined his plans for health care and education overhauls in his State of the State address today. Speaking to a crowd of about 700 at the City Club of Portland, Kitzhaber asked for civilian leaders to support his plans. One of his proposal... Read more

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The deadline has come and gone.  After a brief skirmish with protesters, Portland Police seem to retire from the field…or is it all part of a cunning plan…?  As a helicopter hovers overhead, the thinning number of occupiers are faced with a new challenge.  Hear KBOO’s co... Read more

Normal 0   A Washington state judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former Hanford nuclear worker alleging that he was unfairly dismissed after raising safety concerns. Walter Tamosaitis says that his case demonstrates a major flaw with Washington state law – ... Read more

A protester with Occupy Portland who was photographed being pepper-sprayed in the mouth made her first court appearance this week.   Elizabeth Nichols was charged with three counts of interfering with a peace officer after she was pepper-sprayed at a protest near Pioneer s... Read more

At a special session tomorrow afternoon, The Portland City Council will vote on a resolution calling on the US government to end the war in Afghanistan and bring troops and contractors home from Iraq. The statement is called the “War Dollars Home Resolution”, and is based... Read more

Normal 0 The city of Portland has been trying to avoid building a costly additional water treatment plant. Federal regulators are mandating the facility, and recent tests from the Bull Run watershed could possibly support their case. KBOO’s Zeke Harrington has mor... Read more

Also on the docket for tomorrow’s City Council meeting is a resolution declaring that corporations are not people, and supporting a constitutional amendment to that effect. Rich Cohen with the Occupy Portland Visioning team says that this is just one part of a larger mo... Read more

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