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done a lot of talking about
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much needed raise in order to
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housing, rent, food and other
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Holvey, D-Eugene, crafted the
plan, contained in Senate Bill
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holders, public hearings and
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a period of six years. The
amount differs in each of three
regions and is set according to
a county’s population, median
income and cost of living. The
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$12.50 in rural and coastal
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omies and $13.50 in the rest of
the state by 2022.
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in July, from $9.25 to $9.75
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commended the Oregon Leg-
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day for approving the plan and
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suit. He said more than half of
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than the federal minimum.
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Sen. Michael Dembrow celebrates before Gov. Kate Brown
signs Senate Bill 1532, increasing Oregon’s minimum
wage according to a tiered system, at the state Capitol in
Salem on Wednesday.
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Americans and help support
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make ends meet.”
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help the state avoid “a number
of potentially problematic bal-
lot measures.”
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of the initiative campaigns are
dead.
The Raise the Wage coali-
tion announced Monday that it
has suspended signature gath-
ering to place a measure on the
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period. That measure also
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ies and counties setting higher
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early in the campaign that the
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intended to spur the Legisla-
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because it gives a raise to
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Miller, executive director of
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bly, this bill contains no carve-
outs or exceptions for different
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to bring people out of poverty.”
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state director for the National
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Business called on the gover-
nor to publicly oppose the $15
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overtime, or even make lay-
offs, but her silence on the bal-
lot initiative only adds to the
anxiety Oregon’s entrepre-
neurs are already experienc-
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mechanical engineering major
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robotics teams at the college
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Larsen said the team Georges Oates Larsen tinkers with pieces of the OpenROV in the physics lab of Clatsop
hopes to have the submers- Community College on Wednesday.
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of some patients for so long
that he’d eventually take
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While juggling all of these
responsibilities, my father
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son and take me to breakfast
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ing houses for more than 10
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since Mike’s stroke, she
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him as much as possible.”
She explained the stroke
history and the insurance
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to be able to stay at this
care center as long as it
takes for him to recover
enough to return home. But
their insurance company is
likely not going to pay for
that to happen, she said,
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ing that I get a hold of the
state services, so they can
look into our financial sit-
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for Medicaid.”
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Darby Cullen and Jonathan Kaminski show what the finished OpenROV will look like.
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tined for Mexico.
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Spanish.
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of Manzanita most likely
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1700, and is likely spread out
after being shifted by a large
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Beachcombers have long ological society needs peo-
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beeswax, like this piece combing the beach.
found in 1915, that the in-
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wax Wreck Project believe report it,” Williams said.
are from the Santo Cristo “Don’t pick it up, put it in
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Philipines, when it sank in something right at the surf
the late 17th century.
line, OK, pick that up and
then tell a park ranger.”
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Steve Bellinger, Ocean
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assistant and captain/para-
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Fire District 1, brought Mike
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community.”
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medical services to our com-
munity for almost 19 years.”
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icated tutelage, Bellinger
said, “I feel I am one of the
many indirect impacts Mike
had on our community. I
bring up my involvement not
to highlight my deeds, but to
highlight the vision and the
impact that Mike’s visions
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Mike also during his time as
a medical practitioner on the
peninsula built North Beach
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his contributions to this com-
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back through the GoFundMe
page.
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are recalled, remaining
board member or members
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The Beeswax
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ety met in Astoria in Febru-
ary and voted to adopt the
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traders in the area, the Indi-
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to trade,” Williams told the
annual meeting of the soci-
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the years on Nehalem Spit
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Mike Meno, a longtime healthcare provider on the Long
Beach (Wash.) Peninsula who established the medical
clinic in Klipsan and served on the Ilwaco City Council, has
suffered multiple strokes and is being treated in Astoria.
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drive had a “chilling effect”
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the events prior to the
termination.
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tiated the recall, called the
challenges “for the best.”
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this issue once and for all,
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like a fresh start after many
years of the same guard, then
so be it. At least there has
been a lot of healthy conver-
sation regarding the impor-
tance of sitting on any board
and the decisions they make.
I believe this is particularly
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property.”
The special election is
scheduled for April 5. If
directors are recalled, the
remaining board member or
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directors.
There are several residents
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certain of the outcome,
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their hat in the ring,” Neu-
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be proud to serve “if people
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kind of comments are made
by the public and Fire
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volunteers are very apprecia-
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ger voice in their department
in the future.”
Lyra Fontaine contrib-
uted to this report.
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