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      Evening Headlines Portland Police Forum for Peace Georgia Might Execute Innocent Man This is volunteer powered and produced news! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Dan Johnson, Sue Supriano, Zeke Harrington, and Joe Meyer Producer/Engi... Read more

  A nineteen-hour mediation session led early this morning to a tentative contract settlement between the Oregon University System and the Service Employees International Union Local 503. The union represents about four thousand classified employees and support staff on ... Read more

  The US Congressman for Roseburg Oregon, Peter DeFazio, is among the leaders of a Congressional effort to save social security for future generations. The plan that he proposed on Tuesday, along with Vermont congressman Bernie Sanders, is quite simple. People who make m... Read more

  Troy Davis, an inmate in Georgia has been scheduled, for the fourth time, to be executed for the murder of a police officer, September 21st. However, many people, including high profile figure from the Pope to an ex-President are concerned that an innocent man be execu... Read more

  A panel discussion on the use of force in the Portland Police Bureau is scheduled for seven to eight thirty tonight at the Portland Mennonite Church at South East Thirty-Fifth and Main. A current Portland Police representative and a reform-minded former Multnomah Count... Read more

Tonight's top headlines:   A rally is scheduled this friday for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose execution date has been set for September twenty-first.   The City of Portland will enact a Fair Housing action plan based on the recent housing discrimination study.   The s... Read more

    Evening Headlines Cleanup Continues at Hanford Nuclear Site Tacoma Teachers Begin to Strike School Suspensions Increasing This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Crystal Leighty, Ross Freeman-... Read more

  Suspensions and expulsions of students is increasing, in Portland Public Schools and across the nation. Children of color are disproportionately disciplined and pushed out of school.  Sheila Warren of the Portland Parent Union tells KBOO reporter Jamie Partridge about ... Read more

  Clean up efforts continue at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington State. Ross Freeman Levin spoke today with Gerry Paulette from Heart of America Northwest, who was at today’s meeting of the Hanford Advisory Board. Read more