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Please vote to re-elect
Commissioner
Amanda Fritz
Working to ensure
fairness, equity, and
opportunity for all
Portlanders
Environmental advocate Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. spoke at a rally in Port
land Monday, when hundreds of
residents joined together to protest
plans to establish coal export facili
ties in the Pacific Northwest that
would send high volumes of U.S.
coal to Asia. Portland General Elec
tric Co. has also voiced their con
cerns over coal dust, which is bad
for both human and environmental
health.
A Clackamas County jail deputy
who smashed a drunken inmate into
a wall and threw him to the floor, was
sentenced Monday to 30 days in
jail. A jury convicted 44-year-old
Troy Alan Steiner of fourth-degree
assault and official misconduct for
roughing up 64-year-oldGary Willis
Baumgardner in August 2010 as he
was being moved.
HIV Prevention Pill
A pill that has long
been used to treat
HIV has moved one
step closer to be
Truvada
coming the first drug
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healthy people from
becoming infected
with the virus that
causes AIDS. The Food and Drug
Al Qaida Bomb Seized
Administration said Tuesday that
U.S. bomb experts were picking apart Gilead Sciences' Truvada appears
a new al-Qaida improvised explo to be safe and effective for HIV
sive device Tuesday to see if could prevention if the pill is taken daily.
have passed through airport secu
rity. Discovery of the bomb repre Timbers Fall in Rankings
The Portland Timbers dropped to
sented an intelligence prize from a
number 18 in the Major League Soc
covert CIA operation in Yemen close
cer rankings this week, when they
to the anniversary of the death of
played their first 0-0 draw at home
Osama bin Laden.
on Saturday at Jeld-W en Field
School Transfers Rise
against Columbus. The tie snapped
Hundreds of students have sought a five game losing streak.
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a change in schools following the
approval of a law passed by the
Oregon Legislature that makes it
easier to transfer to a different
school district.
Jail Deputy Sentenced
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