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Portland State’s Roots Festival returns to campus for a second year today to highlight diversity and culture in the world.

One of the Democrats’ priorities for the 2007 Legislature became law Wednesday when Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill to give Oregon women health insurance benefits for their birth control pills.

So a horse walks into a bar…”Ouch,” he said. Get it? He walked into a bar and hurt his head! It’s funny! Click on the link for more funny just like that.

Portland State Fine and Performing Arts Professor Harrel Fletcher will lead a new program focusing on social practice art forms as part of Portland State’s Master of Fine Arts program beginning next fall.

The Portland State Sustainability Office recently removed recycling bins in the Broadway Building for a three-week period due to improper use, leaving resident students with limited options for disposing recyclable materials.

The process of hip-hop–the making of records and singing of songs–is all about finding a voice. Some rappers struggle to make their mark, floundering in the previous generation’s sounds or in other people’s expectations.

Ah, summer, when global warming is at its best. It’s a time for cold beer, hot barbecue, unflattering short shorts and, of course, soul-suckingly awful television.

The Oregon House passed a $327 million budget for the Oregon State Police on Tuesday, enough to add 100 new troopers to patrol the state’s highways over the next two years, but not enough to restore round-the-clock coverage.

In the upcoming 2007 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers will be faced with a tough decision. Should general manager Kevin Pritchard take the 7-foot, agile monster that is Greg Oden, or the flashy score-from-anywhere, leap-small-buildings-in-a-single-bound Kevin Durant?

Patrick Beisell, who ran against Rudy Soto for the 2007-08 ASPSU presidential seat, said he will not appeal the Elections Board decision to revalidate Soto as student body president.

Portland State head football coach Jerry Glanville will be the focus of Worldwide Leader of Sports’ investigative news show, Outside the Lines, on Sunday at 6:30 a.m.