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Pase2__________ *ri,e JJort lanb (Dbsemer Fred Meyer Tests Bag Ban celebrities included Michael J. Fox, Ten Portland Fred Meyer stores, Muhammad Ali, Charles Barkley, including the Interstate Avenue Clyde Drexler, Bill Walton, Alonzo store in north Portland, officially Mourning and Pat Riley. Grant was went plastic-bag free at check-outs diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2008. on Sunday. The move comes as city and state lawmakers consider pass Jarreau Leaves Hospital ing a law to ban plastic bags at Ja zz sta r A1 grocery stores and charge for pa Jarreau was dis per. During this trial phase, Fred charged from Meyer says it will not charge for the h o sp ita l paper, but it does encourage cus S unday a fte r treatm ent for tomers to bring in re-usable bags. heart problems Grant Brings after collapsing the Stars on July 22, mo Former Portland ments before he was due to perform Trail Blazer Brian at a music festival in Barcelonnette, Grant brought an in the southern French Alps. At one A list o f Holly point, his condition was deemed wood stars and critical but the 70-year-old star has NBA players to Portland for Sun since fought his way back to full day and Monday fundraisers for health. Parkinson’s disease research. The Week in The Review Republicans Oppose Birthright Citizenship Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitu tional amendment that grants auto matic citizenship to people bom in the United States. Top leaders o f the party in recent days have ques tioned or challenged birthright citi zenship, embracing a cause that until recently was confined to the far right. Oil Well Plug Begins Engineers began pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf o f Mexico oil well Tuesday in what they think is their best chance yet to achieve the ultimate goal in a deli August 4, 2010 cate process — snuffing one o f the world's largest spills for good. No Charges for Al Gore sands o f tons o f garbage to the Columbia Gorge area for at least 30 days. The order was in response to a lawsuit seeking to halt the ship ments until the environmental im pacts o f transporting garbage laden with invasive species are thoroughly analyzed. The Multnomah County District A tto rn e y has decided not to charge form er Vice President Feds Rate Portland Schools Al Gore after re Nearly 80 percent o f Portland Pub viewing a police lic Schools in 2009-10 met aca investigation o f dem ic perform ance ratings re a 2006 sexual assault complaint by a quired by the federal Elem entary Portland massage therapist. The DA and Secondary Education Act, said the accuser’s statement was according to data released M on insufficient to support a criminal day. H ighlights include a turn charge given other contradictory around for Sitton Elem entary in evidence. n o rth P o rtla n d an d all th ree schools on the M arshall High Hawaiian Garbage Halted School Cam pus. Jefferson and A federal judge issued a temporary Roosevelt high schools continue restraining order Thursday barring to fall short o f the standards. the shipment o f hundreds o f thou M A priest kneels in prayer with three women as sembled at a gathering point for the families, co-workers and friends of victims in a workplace shooting Tuesday in Manchester, Conn. diversity "Print in 1970 Villinne XXXX. Number 15 Wednesday • Maith 31, 2010 iww4»rl!dnitob>cn,'cr,coni isrvuer Special Edition Sec invidi*. pages 4-5 'Ci?. e! Rih«’ years* inumimi tv service Committed to Cultural Dhrrsih Warehouse driver kills 8 co-workers Black Gifted (AP) — A warehouse driver who a union official said was caught on video stealing beer from the Manchester, Conn, dis tributorship where he worked went on a shooting rampage there Tuesday, killing eight people and wounding two before committing suicide, authorities said. Om ar Thornton, 34, pulled a hand gun after a m eeting in which he had been offered the chance to quit or be fired, M anchester Police C h ief Marc Recognizing kids on right track »1 J «hl I HOM« i l l » P o H II V#|l(> »M M V tM Portland'# A frie an -A m cru sn youth are often caught up n u net o f la-gativc public p iK c ,'lio n s h iou ^h l by new# o f pan;' v in lfiu 'e , the sobering a c h irte n irn t cap and school drop out rate*. Hut th e ir'«p le nty o f young black k ut«in lb nt land who me on the right path, making jiond grade#. headed to college and arc making positive contributions to the cits. A new pl.oiogiapine tribute recognizes the hard u o ik of w ittc o f these student# and «how« that there is « till reason io be optim istic. •'Voiing, Black At (J ilte d ” a photo essay putting the spotlight on the accomplishment*, o f high-achieving A fn can-Aniciican undents. opens to the public on Monday. A p ril S ai Portland School f)i-.lrici headquarteiv at 501 \ D isott St and w ill later he moved to the llo v d Center Mali ih e project »« the brain ch ild o f Reiko W illia m -. the d io r ic f •. fam ily and community engagement manager, who s;iid »he got rite idea .«lici having a ctrnvcrsaium with som eone w ho seemed shocked when -he mentioned an A frican American student that w a« excelling A Her the to n sersation she worried that all the .ttienuon on the problem# o f voting blac k student# w as drow mng out the hard work o f others. You hear m > much .shout delicti» and aetnrs ament gap#, r nntinued on /tngr t<r M ontm iny said. The gunman, who was black, had com plained o f racial harassment and said he found a picture o f a noose and a racial epithet written on a bathroom wall, the mother o f his girlfriend said. Her daughter told her that Thornton’s supervisors told him they would talk to his co-workers. James Battaglio, a spokesman for the families who own the distributorship, said he had no immediate information about the allegations o f racial harassment. And a union official said Thornton had not filed a complaint o f racism with the union or any government agency. Blighted Properties City can’t keep up with complaints she said W illtam# «aid the exhibit came together w ith a call for nomination» o f black students doing w e ll d is t il« wide, and the recruitment o f a photographer and web dev eloper Skylar Holt, a freshman at Jcffer«on High School is one o f the 13 student» icutuivd h i Ihe exhibit I lo lls get# A 'san d B 's in school She does especially well in l.ngitsh dasse«. taught by Anne Novinger, one o f her (m o n te teachers and chemistry is getting steadily caster I lo ll plan# to go to college and is thinkin g about law school down the road 'I 'm enjoying it a lo t.” she sauf o f her high school “ I like Workplace Shooting by J ake m urosi J c m rnouAVlu» Ponit Sfryf.ar H oit excels a s fm shm nn .ft lottersoo High S chool in north Porttona H nr contribution a s one o f the c ity ’s * P outk , b ine * & G ifte d ' students is port o f unten extubit cvrmng tv school district haudifuisriers nod I toyii Center M oll ............ --....................................... ......... To contact Portland Observer Call 503-288-0033 or email ads@portlandob server.com T homas T he P ortland O bserver If think you’ve seen more overgrown grass in your neighborhood, piles o f gar bage left on the sidewalk, and properties that are generally deteriorating, it’s prob ably because you have. Thanks to the budget cuts brought on by the Great Recession and the loss o f tax revenue, there is less money for property inspectors in the Bureau o f Development Services, the city agency responsible for inspecting nuisance properties and en forcing code violations. According to bureau spokesperson Ross Caron, the agency has reduced its staff that deals with residential inspec tions from 34 to 16, which has severely hampered how well the agency can deal with complaints. He said that most complaints involve trash left out, overgrown grass and weeds, and disabled cars. Since late June, the bureau has received 563 complaints o f which 149 were in north east; 104 in north; 4 in northwest; 225 in southeast; and 63 in southwest Portland. Others were in the public right o f way. Caron said the bureau will still respond fairly quickly to issues that pose clear health hazards, like rotting garbage left out. In high priority complaints, BDS staff will do an investigation within about two weeks. The resident o f the property has continued on page 13