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Nurse Practitioner MariahTaylor (right) locked out and terminated from the community health clinic
she founded 26 years ago.
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underinsured children, founded the
clinic 26 years ago but was locked
A messy and ongoing dispute out by her board o f directors after
between the North Portland C om ­ a dispute late last year. T aylor said
munity Health Clinic and its founder the board w anted to limit what pa­
Mari ah Taylor spilled onto the street tients she helps and what low-cos,
last week.
or free m edicines she offered.
T aylor and some o f her former
A fter m onths o f arbitration, the
patients rallied in protest to her clin ic 's new m anagem ent offered
term ination in front o f the elin ie’s T aylor severance pay. But her em ­
new offices on North Killingsworth ploym ent was term inated after she
Street.
rejected the offer.
The veteran nurse, w ho has been
In a press release issued last
re v e re d fo r se rv in g p o o r and week, T aylor described the dispute
as a personal nightm are.
"This is the ending o fa vision for
the com m unity to have access to
health care for the poor and unin­
sured," she wrote.
T a y lo rw a sa p io n e e rin th e Port­
land com m unity when in 1980 she
founded the state’s first African
A merican w om an-ow ned and op­
erated clinic o f its kind. It was often
referred to as the “clinic o f last
resort" and Taylor received national
recognition on the Oprah W infrey
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30-year-old Wi 11 iams was found
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Sheriff Guisto Apologizes for Remarks
M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty S h e riff
Bem ieG uistoapologizedafter com ­
paring the co unty’s jails to A rkan­
sas and using language som e con­
sidered racist by his declaration.
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“We be jailers.”
called for him to resign.
G uisto made the rem ark along
An apology statem ent from the
with a reference to running a “jailin ’ sheriff said his use o f bad gram m ar
sy stem -j-a-i-l-i-n , no ‘g ’. . . ” in a was an attem pt to articulate that
new s conference last w eek follow ­ “we have an inappropriate jail sys­
ing a report by the district attorney tem for an enlightened county.”
that found fault in county jail m an­
Other African American leaders,
agem ent and spending.
including neighborhood activist
Skipper O sborne, form er presi­ W illie Brown and Bruce Broussard,
dent o f the Portland NAAC’P, called a Republican running forC ongress,
G u is to 's sta te m en ts racist and did not find the com m ents racist.
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