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Oregon's Gas Prices Are Fifth Highest in the Nation
3+ hour ago (392+ words) This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. Gas prices across the country have soared since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, with Oregon's statewide cost per gallon shooting to…...
Washington State Ousted This Health Insurance Lookalike. In Oregon, It Carries On.
22+ hour, 40+ min ago (796+ words) Founded in late 2018, the St. George, Utah-based group has grown rapidly in recent years, with reported annual revenue jumping tenfold from 2020 to 2024the latest year on recordto $93 million. It reports 1, 222 members in Oregon and 75, 000 members nationwide, spanning nearly every state. One…...
Furloughs at PPS Revive Questions About Instructional Time
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (531+ words) Time is money, the saying goes. But at Portland Public Schools, the inverse is true: Money is time. Specifically, time in the classroom. When the district needed to save $22. 5 million, it reached an agreement with the Portland Association of Teachers…...
Staff Departures Preceded Firing of OHSU Executive
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (289+ words) Early this month, Oregon Health & Science University president Shereef Elnahal told staff the health system's top executive, Tarek Salaway, no longer worked there, effective immediately. Salaway, who had only just begun in the key job in December, promptly told WW…...
Willamette Cove Makes a Perfect Park, Once the Soil Is Removed
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (560+ words) Location: 6900 N Edgewater St. Amenities now: A 0. 7-mile beach; cottonwood, white oak, madrone trees; slender-billed nuthatches and bushtits; dirt containing PCBs, dioxins, furans, mercury and lead; a sunken boat Amenities later: Nature trails, overlooks, a staircase with boat slide, poison-free…...
The Waterfront Education Park Could Tell the Story of Indigenous Culture on the Willamette
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (426+ words) Location: OMSI District, 1945 SE Water Ave. Amenities: A space that blends Indigenous history with science and innovation. Champions: Center for Tribal Nations, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Long before the Willamette River was surrounded by gravel lots and interstate…...
Portland Botanical Gardens Could Grow From Once-Poisoned Land
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (433+ words) Location: Mc Cormick & Baxter Superfund site, 6900 N Edgewater St. When planting a garden, typically you want to start with clean soil. By that standard, the site of the defunct Mc Cormick & Baxter Creosoting Co. doesn't jump off the page as…...
Eight Ways to Get Portlanders Back on the Willamette River
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (473+ words) Urban planners have lauded Portland for lots of things over the years: short city blocks, the preservation of Forest Park, extensive mass transit, plentiful bike lanes. Few, though, have said nice things about the Portland riverfront. Sure, Tom Mc Call…...
The People Behind the Big Float Are Making Duckworth Beach "Toe-Friendly
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (264+ words) Location: East bank of the Willamette River between the Steel and Burnside bridges Amenities: A swim dock and two ladders for swimmers Champions: The Portland Waterfront Alliance and the Human Access Project "The Human Access Project's mission is to get…...
Tiered Gardens Could Celebrate the Return of Black Portlanders to Albina Riverside
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (605+ words) Location: Louis Dreyfus Grain Terminal, 900 N Thunderbird Way Amenities: A park, basketball courts, gardens Champions: The 1803 Fund Where piles of tires once burned, gardens worthy of Babylon may soon hang. Albina Vision Trust, the nonprofit powerhouse run by Rukaiyah Adams,…...