When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, unhoused students struggled to stay connected, and district officials don’t know how many have fallen through the cracks Portland had 1,217 students experiencing some form of homelessness last fall. With the pandemic and en ...
8 Aug 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Many employers in Oregon are sending healthy workers in for COVID-19 testing when a coworker gets sick. Public health officials wish they’d stop. Debbie Lamberger said it’s becoming a regular occurrence: Coworkers arrive in a group of cars at one of Orego ...
18 Jul 2020 - Christen McCurdy
A $720,000 grant has allowed the county to build on its pilot project During the past year, about 1,600 people have been offered medications such as buprenorphine to assist with their opioid use disorder and withdrawal symptoms while they’ve been in the C ...
2 Jun 2020 - Christen McCurdy
The fees are already suspended during the pandemic, and their fiscal impact is not significant Multnomah County announced in mid-March that, due to COVID-19, individuals who violate parole without committing a new crime during the pandemic would not be ja ...
21 May 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Late mail, wrong addresses, extra hours — ‘consolidated casing’ is drawing criticism as a push toward privatizing mail delivery Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) will hold a Portland forum Jan. 25 to hear constituents’ stories about how they’ve been affecte ...
17 Jan 2020 - Christen McCurdy
We asked Evan Greer with Fight for the Future, the group that’s suing the company In one ad for Amazon’s Ring surveillance system, a pair of bumbling crooks is frightened off by the mere sight of the Ring doorbell — as the homeowner smirks while monitorin ...
3 Jan 2020 - Christen McCurdy
A Kenton neighborhood initiative to deskill postal work aims to improve efficiency, but mail carriers say it has the opposite effect Some time in late fall, Miriam Linder noticed mail was coming later and later – sometimes as late or 7 or 8 p.m. “We go, ‘ ...
13 Dec 2019 - Christen McCurdy
The county’s mental health funding isn’t reaching half of the people who qualify, according to the report More than half of adults who qualify for mental health services offered by Multnomah County aren’t getting them, according to an audit report release ...
29 Nov 2019 - Christen McCurdy
The pastor and social-justice activist who renewed the Poor People’s Campaign is coming to Portland to talk about a ‘moral revival’ The Rev. William J. Barber II is calling for a moral revival and a new reconstruction. The North Carolina pastor and activi ...
8 Nov 2019 - Christen McCurdy
Layoffs come as the health center sees more patients forgo coverage due to a ‘chilling effect’ from Trump’s immigration rhetoric and ‘public charge’ policy Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center has cut 34 jobs and frozen 47 open positions across its netw ...
25 Oct 2019 - Christen McCurdy