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The Portland chapter of Links
Incorporated honors Mariah Taylor
Mariah Taylor, R.N., MSN, a long-time community activist &
Nurse Practitioner, with a hearty’ thank you and a check to
help support the work undertaken by Mariah & her clinic
staff to provide medical services & supplies to those less
fortunate who need the services the most and are least able
to pay for them.
Barbara Leonard, far right. President is accompanied by
Lvdia Rov, second from right, and other Link members in
the presentation o f the award & check to Mariah lavlor
whose clinic is located at 5311 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland,
Oregon.
Training helps landlords keep rentals safe and free
of illegal activity
The City o f Portland’s Office of
Planning and Development Review
(formerly the Bureau of Buildings),
in partnership with the Portland
Police Bureau will offer an eight-
hour training to help landlords keep
rental properties safe and free of
illegal activity.
The first o f the Spring 2000
Landlord Training Programs will be
held on Tuesday, April 25th at the
P ortland B uilding, located in
downtown Portland at 1120SW fifth
Avenue. Sign-in begins at8:00 am.
with the training starting at 8:30 am
and ending at approximately 5:00
PM.
Landlords, property managers, and
others interested in attending may
call the C ity’s Landlord Training
Programs information line at 823-
7955 for registration information.
Advance registration requested.
Although the seminar is offered
free o f change, there is a $ 15 charge
for the ninth edition o f Portland’s
Landlord Training program manual,
which has been updated to include
changes made during the 1999
Oregon legislative session.
The Landlord Training Program was
originally developed in 1989 under
the lead sponsorship o f the Portland
Police Bureau and has now been
thoroughly updated and revised for
issues facing landlords in 2000 by
Portland’s Office o f Planning and
Development Review.
To date, Over 8,000 landlords and
property managers representing over
120,000 rental units have attend.
The program, which began in Portland
with funding from the US Department
of Justice, has become a national
community policing model, winning
for the C ity recognition as an
in n o v atio n in sta te and local
government by Harvard’s Kennedy
School, o f Government and being
replicated, in various formats, by over
400 state and local jurisdictions
nationwide and in Canada.
The training will be presented by
program’s original creator and now
national Landlord Training Program
Director John Campbel 1 o f Campbel 1
Delong Resources, Inc o f Portland.
In addition to the training on April
25th, four other training dates for
Oregon’s average pay per worker lags behind in nation
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The average annual pay o f all workers
in O regon rose som ew hat more
slowly than that o f the nation in 1998.
T he slo w e r w ag e g ro w th w as
p a rtic u la rly n o tic e a b le in the
construction and wholesale trade
industries, but affected all major
industry sectors. These findings
summarize the Oregon Employment
Department’s analysis o f Bureau o f
Labor Statistics state-level average
annual pay data for all employees
covered by unemployment insurance.
“One likely suspect for causing the
slow average pay growth in 1998 is
the onset in Oregon of the impacts o f
the Asian economic crisis.
As economists have known for a
' couple o f years, Oregon was more
strongly affected by the A sian
economic crisis than were most other
states, simply because such a large
share o f Oregon’s export value went
to Asian countries,” said Art Ayre,
economist with the Employment
Department.
Oregon’s average payroll per working
grew from $28,411 in 1997 to $29,542
in 1998,againof$l,131 (+4.0%). The
1998 statewide average pay level was
22nd highest among the 50 states. In
comparison, the national average
annual pay per worker was $30,353 in
1997and$31,908in 1998. The national
average gained $1,555 per worker
(+5.1%) in 1998.
“If this slower-than average wage
growth keeps up, Oregon would
move toward the bottom o f the pack.
That isn ’t expected to happen,
however,” Ayre said. “The state’s
economic forecast includes a more
rapid increase in per capita personal
income in Oregon than in the U.S. as
a whole, and the largest single piece
o f per capita income is payroll
income.” Among neighboring states,
Washington, California and Nevada
outperformed Oregon in 1998, while
Idaho’s average pay grew more
slowly.
California’s 1998 averageannual pay
per worker was $35,349, ranking 5,h
highest in the nation, W ashington’s
was 1 l,h with $33,076, and Nevada
was 20th with an average annual pay
per covered w orkerof $30,201.
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Katz from page 1
access to breast cancer screening
and treatment.
W aited
on
announcem ent
Katz said she also knew word would
get around that she was getting daily
radiation treatments at Legacy Good
Samaritan Hospital in Northwest
Portland. And she said she wanted to
wait until after last Thursday, when
her treatment regimen was certain,
before making the announcement.
Standard treatment guidelines for
K atz’s type o f cancer include three
options: simple mastectomy or breast
removal; a lumpectomy with radiation
th e ra p y , as K atz ch o se ; o r a
lumpectomy without radiation.
Breast cancer specialists generally
do not recommend the last option,
and Katz said she and her doctor
concluded a m astectom y w asn ’t
Idaho’s 1998 average annual pay per
worker was $24,866, for a national
ranking of44'h.
Oregon’s metro areas ranked in the
lower h a lf o f the n a tio n ’s 321
m etropolitan statistical areas for
percentage gain in average pay per
worker between 1997 and 1998.
The P ortland-V ancouver a re a ’s
average pay per worker grew from
$31,560in 1997to$32,846in 1998. Its
4.0 percent increase was 192nd fastest
among all metro areas and 29,h fastest
among the 41 western metro areas.
Other Oregon metro areas' average
pay grew at rates similar to Portland's.
Salem-metro average pay ranked 2O7lb
among the nation’s metro areas and
the Eugene-Springfield metro area’s
average pay was 193rd.
from page 1
necessary. The recurrence rate given
Katz’s cancer and treatment regimen
is 2 percent, “if that,” Johnson said.
The radiation treatment scheduled
for Katz will be kept to the area where
cancer is discovered, and is “easily
tolerated," Johnson said.
Katz should have no hair loss, nausea,
changing blood counts or difficulty
eating. The first day o f treatment is
long, but after that the treatment will
last 10 minutes a day, five days a
week.
The mayor said she expects to feel
tired because o f the treatments. She
said she'll knock a few hours off her
notoriously busy schedule.
Katz, a former three-term speaker of
the Oregon House, faces 16 political
newcomers in the May 16 primary.
She is expected to cruise to re-
election.
Pollster Adam Davis said Monday
that K atz’s public announcement
would likely reinforce her "one o f us"
image in the public mind. Given the
favorable diagnosis, he said he didn 't
think it would give voters second
thoughts about the m ayor’s health.
“ I think it would be a mistake to make
too much out o f this" as a political
issue. Davis said.
During the months o f waiting for a
clear prognosis, Katz said she thought
about all the other women “not
necessarily as lucky as I was.”
“ 1 thought about friends o f mine who
have go n e th ro u g h far w orse
situations, who were very upbeat,"
Katz said. “There is a family of women
who have conquered this, and I never
realized how strong that family is.”
prices.
The study says the company could
have charged $49 for an upgrade to
Windows 98 operating system from
Windows 95 but instead charged $89
b e c a u se it w as the “ re v e n u e
m axim izing price,” Jackson had
written.
U.S. law allows for plaintiffs to sue for
treble damages, which in this instance
would mean three times $40, the
perceived overcharge, or $120 per
litigant.
But the formula would be much more
complicated for the bulk ofcom puter
buyers, for whom the cost o f the
Microsoft operating system is far less
clear,
“It’s not a slam dunk for private
plaintiffs,” Litan said.
program are also being offered:
Friday, April 28th at Providence
Portland Medical Amphitheater,
located at 4805 NE Glisan; Saturday,
April 29th at Portland Community
Cascade Campus, located at 705 N.
Killingsworth; Friday, May 19th at
P ortland C om m unity C ollege
Southeast Center, located at 2850
SE 82nd; and on Saturday April 20th
again at PCC’s Cascade Campus.
Reactions from landlords who have
c o m p le te d the c o u rse are
consistently strong and positive:
surveyed landlords and managers
overwhelming agree that the training
in c re a se s th e ir co n fid e n c e in
screening rental applicants and their
ability to recognize warning signs o f
illegal activity or chronic nuisance
activity Under the Planning and
Development Review's sponsorship
and guidance.
Landlords new to the program will
gain im portant in sig h ts, w hile
landlords who have attended in the
past can expect plenty of additional
information.
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