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Volume XXV, Number 29,
July 19, 1995
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Jackson Goes To
Youth Authority
Light Rail
Called A Loser
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A national group o f urban and plan­
ning experts called T ri-M et’s light rail
system a “flat out, hands down loser,”
during a meeting last week with legisla­
tive leaders. The panel said light rail in
Portland and across the nation doesn't get
people to ride mass transit, doesn't get
people into car pools and doesn’t reduce
urban sprawl.
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Lonnie
Jackson
Conservatives To End
Arts Support
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House R ep u b lican leaders have
agreed to cut o ff all federal funding to the
National Endowment for the Arts within
two years. Another o f the conservatives’
favorite cultural targets, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, is also in line for
a phaseout o f government financing.
Vietnam Recognized
After 20 Years
President Clinton, saying the time
was at hand to “ bind up our own wounds,”
extended full diplomatic relations to V iet­
nam last week, 20 years after the U .S.
withdrawal o f troops from the Vietnam
War.
Paulus Considers
Independent Run
O regon S ch o o ls Superintendent
Norma Paulus is considering running for
the U .S. Senate as an Independent. The
former Oregon Republican Secretary o f
State has been make early preparations if
Sen Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. retires. She is
also assessing whether she could raise
enough money to run in the Republican
Primary and overcome staunch opposi­
tion by social conservatives.
Judge Knocks Out
Campaign Limits
A federal judge last week struck down
a voter-approved ballot measure that
barred state and local candidates from
receiving campaign donations fiom out­
side their districts. The judge ruled that
the Oregon campaign limitation violates
constitutional free-speech protection.
With temperatures nearing 100 degrees, Rachael Alleyne, 11, (left) and Heather Mailer, 12, find a way to
keep cool at Ira's Fountain in the forecourt at Portland Civic Auditorium.
onnie Jackson, a 15-year veteran of
juvenile corrections work, has been named
minority affairs coordinator for the newly
created Oregon Youth Authority.
Jackson, 37, has worked at MacLaren School in Wood»
bum since 1980, where he has been minority affairs direc­
tor since I987. His experience includes managing agency
compliance with federal and state laws governing equal
opportunity employment and affirmative actions in pro­
grams, services, hiring recruitment and retention.
He was named to his new p osition by R ic k H ill,
Yo uth A u th o rity actin g director.
“ I can think o f now one more qualified than Lonnie
Jackson to be the first minority affairs coordinator for the
Oregon Youth Authority,” H ill said. “ He is sensitive to the
issues o f cultural diversity and has demonstrated success
time and again in development programs for minority
youth.”
Jackson is expected to work closely with lawmakers,
agency officials and community organizations, especially
in Multnomah County.
The authority, created this year by the Legislature, is
responsible for state juvenile corrections, including oper­
ating Hillcrest and MacLaren training schools in Salem and
Woodburn and four youth work-study camps in Corvallis,
Florence, Tillam ook and at Hilgard near LaGrande
At M acLaren, Jackson founded a gang-intervention
program that addresses issues such as race relations, com­
munication skills, managing anger, parenting skills and
taking responsibility for one’s life Refore that la rk so n
worked at MacLaren as a corrections counselor in the sex-
offender treatment program and as a group life coordinator.
Jackson also implemented M acLaren's job-readiness
and tutorial programs. He was co-founder o f the innovative
We “ R ” One program at Woodburn's Lincoln Elementary
School, aimed at promoting empowerment and reducing
violence and gang affiliation among students.
Black Leaders Discuss “Affirmative Action”
Local Residents
Trained For jobs
new training program to
prepare unemployed north
and northeast Portland
residents for jobs in the trades
professions is being sponsored by
area utilities.
Clinton Approves
Base Closures
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Pounding his lectern. President
Clinton last week denounced a base clos­
ing list for the damage it would do to
California and Texas, but then approved
the package with a promise to save jobs in
those states. He delayed the outright clos­
ing o f a big base in each state for five
years.
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At a Black Leadership Summit
on affirmative action in
Washington, D.C., NN PA
President Dorothy Leavell (far
right) is joined in a discussion
on the effects of recent
Supreme Court rulings by
other panelists: Anthony
Robinson (standing) of the
Minority Enterprise Legal
defense organization, Dr. Ron
Walter (left) Professor of
Political Science at Howard
University and the Rev. Jesse
Jackson (sitting in middle) of
the Rainbow Coalition. '
Packwood
Hearing Debated
Facing growing pressure for a public
airing o f misconduct allegations against
Sen Bob Packwood, R-Ore., the ethics
committee chairman last week abruptly
canceled plans to decide the volatile issue
The action by Republ ican Chairman Mitch
M cConnell o f Kentucky came after Bar­
bara Boxer, D -C alif. threatened a poten­
tially embarrassing roll-call vote on the
Senate floor if the committee decided
against hearings.
Photo by Jim Wells.
Nine students have completed the
six-w eekpilot course.
The curriculum was designed by Port­
land Community College under the spon­
sorship and direction o f Pacific Power,
Portland General Electric and Northwest
Natural Gas.
Applicants were screened at the
Northeast Workforce Center, a communi­
ty-based agency that helps residents o f
inner north and Northeast Portland find
jobs.
“This program is a good example o f
how businesses and the community can
work together to address local employ­
ment needs," said Jennie Portis, director
o f the center.
“The people who entered the training
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