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¡Portiani» (Dhseroer Page 2 TheWeek Review YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOUR VOICE Fired after Punch Video Surfaces The City is investing $20 million in North/Northeast Portland over the next five years to help address the need for affordable housing. We need your input to inform the housing strategy. The Baltimore Ravens on Mon- ■P Highland Christian Center 7600 NE Glisan St Thursday 9/18/14 Dinner 6:00 p.m. • Session 6:30 - 9:00 TriMet Restores Service Cuts Riders on TriMet got a boost in transit services last week when service cuts were restored because of an improving economic outlook for the government agency. Officials say the 12 busiest bus lines as well as all Max lines will have 15-minute or better service extended into evening hours on weekdays. Matt Dishman Community Center 77 NE Knott St Saturday 9/27/14 Lunch 1:00 p.m. • Session 1:30 - 4:00 Gresham City Hall 1333 NW Eastman Pkwy, Gresham Thursday 10/9/14 Dinner 6:00 p.m. • Session 6:30 - 9:00 Pedestrian Death on Sandy Portland police said a woman was waiting for a bus was killed when a motorist suffered a medical condition causing her to lose control of her car and sm ash into a bus shelter. Brenda Badon, 41, of northeast Portland died in the Thursday afternoon accident at Northeast Sandy Boulevard and 138th Avenue. New Song Community Church, 2511 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Saturday 10/11/14 Breakfast 9:00 a.m. • Session 9:30 - Noon DAYCARE & LANGUAGE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE H O U S IN G HOUSING STRATEGY For more information, or if you would like to provide feedback without attending a forum, visit our website, call, or email: portlandoregon.gov/phb/nnestrategy 503.823.1190 • nnestrategy@portlandoregon.gov Established 1970 USPS 959-680 47 47 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 P u b lis h e r : E d it o r : Mark Washington, Sr. M ich a el L eig h to n E xecutive D irector : Rakeem Washington C reative D irector : P aul N e u feld t O ffice M anager /C lassifieds : A dvertising M anager : Acid-Tongue Comedian Dies Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued com edian who crashed the m ale- dominated realm of late- night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81. Riv ers was hospitalized last week after she went into cardiac arrest following a routine medical procedure. Band Leader Remembered Gerald Wilson, the dynamic jazz musician whose career spanned more than 75 years, died Monday at age 96. W il son played and composed music with the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie, and he ar ran g e d m u sic fo r E lla Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sa rah Vaughan and Bobby Darin. Student Robbed at Gunpoint A female student at Concordia University in northeast Portland was robbed at gunpoint last week. Accord ing to Portland Police, the incident happened Wednes day as she was waiting for a bus next to campus. The suspects were described as three younger African- American males who got into a dark-colored SUV. BUREAU NORTH I NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD ^ lo rtla n ò CObseriier day fired Ray Rice after a new ** '■ video surfaced show ing the three-time Pro Bowl running back punching his then-fiancee dur ing an argument earlier this year. An earlier video showed Rice dragging unconscious Janay Palmer, who is now his wife, from an elevator at an Atlantic City casino but the new one was taken from inside the elevator. JO IN US AT A C O M M U N ITY FORUM: PO RTLAND September 10, 2014 Lucinda Baldwin Ferguson Investigation Expanding (AP) — The Justice Department has launched a larger investigation into the police d ep artm en t in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting last month of an unarmed The Portland Observer welcom es freelance submis sions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All created design display ads become the sole property o f the newspaper and can not be used in other publications or personal usage with out the written consent o f the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition o f such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer-Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication—is a member of the National Newspaper Association-Founded in 1885, and The National Ad vertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publish ers Association Leonard Latin P ostmaster ; Send address changes to Portland Observer, PO Box3 1 3 7 , Portland, OR9 7 2 0 8 CALL 503-288-0033 news@Dortlandobserver.com ads@Dortlandobserver.com subscription@Dortlandobserver,com FAX 503-288-0015 black 18-year-old by a white police officer. The investigation, which goes beyond an existing federal probe into the Aug. 9 shooting, will look for patterns of discrimination within the predominantly white department and focus on how officers use force, search and arrest suspects, and treat inmates at the city jail. The police department said it welcomed the investigation. In announcing the action last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder, who visited the St. Louis suburb two weeks ago, said he and his department had heard numer ous concerns from people there about police practices, a history of "deep mistrust" of law enforcement and a lack o f diversity on the police force. The inquiry is part of a broader Justice Department effort to inves tigate troubled police departments and, when pervasive problems are found, institute changes. The de partment says it has investigated more than 20 police departments in the past five years, more than twice the number of cases opened in the previous five years. Besides the investigation into the Ferguson police force, the Jus tice D epartm ent says it will also work with the St. Louis County police departm ent, which trains officers from Ferguson and other local departm ents, to review the use o f force, the handling o f m ass dem onstrations and other aspects o f policing. It will also conduct a report on the county's response to the som etim es violent dem on strations that follow ed the shoot ing. Charles W ashington Past Publisher of the Portland O bserver In memory of an outstanding and dedicated member of Portland's Longest Standing Minority Publieation. 1J n v 11 a u b (Oh s c r u c
