Marva Davis lost two young sons last month. One of the brothers, Timothy Douglass, died of kidney failure. Hours later his brother, Aaron Campbell, 25, was shot by police. The circumstances surrounding both of these deaths are heavily documented—but Campbell’s death raises more questions than answers.
There’s no point in denying it, the 2010 Winter Olympics are a bust. Transportation systems are blocked by protestors, spectator stands are melting away and countless delays are ruining the two weeks that millions wait four years to watch.
The Obama administration and the Democratic-led House are working on a bill that will eliminate student loans through private loan companies like Sallie Mae by July 1.
ASPSU has launched a campaign to inform students of the dangers of former University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer’s suggestion to change the top three Oregon public universities to public corporations. Shouldn’t the students inform our representatives of our attitudes toward restructuring instead of being preached to?
Students from Portland State will travel to Salem on Feb. 10 to ask Oregon Legislature to repeal an 87-year-old law which bans teachers from wearing religious clothing. Many topics, such as religious tolerance and the separation of church and state, will be presented in upcoming debates, and common sense will—hopefully—be prominent.
Oregon’s unemployment rate is reported as 11.1 percent, but economists believe it would be much worse if the underemployed and the discouraged worker were taken into account.
Does this sound familiar? Tough-as-nails city official rounds up a crack team of vigilantes to clean up his fair city while politicians stand idly by. No, it’s not the plot of the latest Michael Bay abomination. This city official is Commissioner Randy Leonard, whose aptly named Housing Interdiction Team (HIT), is muscling business owners out of Portland and razing their buildings.
It was not so long ago that Portland was known for its hardy, pioneer spirit, a city full of lumberjacks and sailors that belched self-reliance and ingenuity. The last remnants of a recent snowstorm have melted away, along with any hope we had of regaining our robust reputation.
Are you sick of all the materialism that comes with the holiday season? I’m sorry to say that much of the commercialism we deem “modern” has roots extending back many centuries, when America’s ideas of Christmas were being formed. Credit cards and layaway are as much a part of Christmas traditions as sleigh bells and Aunt Ida’s fruit cake.
Dreaming of traveling the globe on a student’s budget? Well, you can’t. But for $5 and change you can get a glimpse of far-off locales by sampling one of Portland’s 450 unique food carts. From the Far East to Southwest Portland, the world comes to you. Here are some tasty places to enjoy escapism in a bowl.
Hello all Oregon prisoners. Put down your tiny hammers and give up on your dream of tunneling your way toward freedom. If you stay in prison, eat your three meals a day and enjoy your free health care, you’ll see a third of your sentence disappear.