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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or N-R-C, recently announced that it cited the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for safety violations in connection with five events last year. Energy Northwest, which operates the reactor, is applying to relicense the reactor for another tw... Read more

The Supreme Court will be ruling in February of next year on whether the plaintiffs in a case against Shell can sue a corporation for human rights abuses. The case, Kiobel versus Royal Dutch Petroleum, or Shell, was based on a lawsuit by twelve Nigerians stating that sev... Read more

The Portland City Council passed a resolution today allowing churches and non-profits to offer parking lots for car camping. Community Organizations may now provide safe harbor to homeless people looking for a place to sleep overnight in cars, rvs or trailers. KBOO’s Zek... Read more

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  A California judge has decided to allow a class action suit by a group of immigrant detainees with mental disabilities. Many of these detainees have been stuck for years in immigration prisons without any idea of what is happening to them, or why, and without access to... Read more

This week is the busiest week of the year for the US Postal Service. Despite all the business, the postal service is on the verge of bankruptcy because of a pre-funding mandate imposed by a lame-duck Congress in 2006.  Here in Portland, a door-to-door canvassing group cal... Read more

The battle to keep Oregon’s rural post offices open continued today with a rally in Scappoose. Although Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley on Friday claimed credit for saving twenty of Oregon’s post offices from closure, twenty one more are still scheduled to be shut down by th... Read more

Oregon senator Ron Wyden is one of three lawmakers that introduced a bill today to protect the free and open internet while still enforcing copyright violations. The bill, known as the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade, or OPEN Act, provides an alternati... Read more

Over the weekend, hundreds of supporters of immigrant rights gathered in downtown Portland to commemorate International Migrants Day. Speakers at the rally in the South Park Blocks Saturday morning spoke of the need for national legislation providing a real path to citiz... Read more

On Saturday, around 100 people marched through downtown Portland to protest certain provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress last week.  Most of the protesters are part of the Portland branch of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. At one point... Read more