The City of Portland failed a test of its new citywide emergency alert system last month. A computerized system was supposed to alert more than 300,000 people, but managed to notify less than 1 percent of Portland citizens.
Last month, the national unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent. While still high, 8.5 is the lowest unemployment rate in more than two years. This sudden drop could mean that a turnaround in unemployment could be on the horizon.
Ah, the college years. These are supposed to be the best days of our lives, right? Every now and then, we’ll make decisions (or mistakes) which will impact us for the rest of our lives. Some situations are worse than others, but that can be left up to the opinion of the individual.
Powell’s Books, Portland’s world-famous independent bookstore, announced that its Burnside location would be launching its own publishing service. This is not just any old publishing service—customers will now be able to submit their book order online and have it printed in-store in minutes.
In the receding wake of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or Protect IP Act) acts, many people have come to the realization that some forms of censorship have already been put in place.
There is no use denying it: we live in a diverse world.
Our society has come a long way since the days of government-supported segregation, and diversity is generally something we collectively appreciate. Or at least that is the face most of us want to show to the public.
Last week, the Obama administration approved a rule requiring employers to cover the cost of contraceptives in their employee health plans.
This is a huge step forward for both the Obama administration and preventive healthcare. Contraceptives, along with other forms of preventive services and medicine, will now be available to employees with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles.
On Jan. 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a small coalition of Oregon universities a $3.5 million grant for research on alternative transportation.
Portland State was one of the universities included, as were the University of Oregon and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The grant was administered by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC), which is based here at PSU.
When one thinks of the police, images of strapping young men are often the first things to leap into one’s mind. Gender biases aside, the Portland Police Association is considering offering police officers cash incentives to keep that “strapping young lad” image active in the Bridge City.
While this ideal may seem foreign to some, it has been considered by police forces throughout the country. Police forces in Texas, New York and other states are following the same plan: more cash for more fitness.
When one thinks of a state-funded psychiatric hospital, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest might just be the first thing that comes to mind.
Oregon legislature is currently going over plans to open a new state hospital to house the mentally ill in Junction City, Ore. While it is comforting to know that our state government cares (although “cares” might not be the right word) for the mentally ill residing in Oregon, is another hospital a necessity?
Ah, the Internet. Gigabytes, megabytes, even terabytes worth of free information readily available at one’s convenience—but not for long, if a new bill currently undergoing review in Congress has anything to say about it.
The Stop Online Piracy Act, also known as SOPA, is a bill written mostly to protect against the growing problem (if you want to call it a problem) of Internet piracy.