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^Tortlanò CObsirtier Page 2 YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOUR VOICE 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. JO IN US AT A COM M UN ITY FORUM : Highland Christian Center 7600 NE Glisan St Thursday 9/18/14 Dinner 6:00 p.m. • Session 6:30 - 9:00 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 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 NORTH Z NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD housingstrategy 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(g portlandoregon.gov SllH scriH pl O U U d L I lU C J 503-288 0033 Fill O ut & Send To: |3adianh (¡Observer A ttn : S u b s c rip tio n s , P O B o x 3 1 3 7 , P o rtla n d O R 9 7 2 0 8 $ 4 5 .0 0 for 3 m onths • $ 8 0 .0 0 fo r 6 m o. • $125.00 for 1 y e ar (please include check with this subscription form) N ame : ________________________ T elephone : ___________________ A ddress : _____________________________ or email subscriptions@portlandobserver.com TheWeek Review Blazer Caldwell Jones Dies Former Portland Trail Blazers center Caldwell Jones died Sunday from a heart attack at his home in Decatur, Ga. He was 64. Jones brought a fierce attitude and unselfish style of play to the court that made the Blazers one of the best defensive teams when he played for Portland from 1985-89. His quiet but engaging de meanor off the court made him a favorite with fans. US, Allies Bomb Militants The United States and its Arab allies unleashed deadly bomb and m issile strikes on jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, opening a new front in the battle against the Islam ic State group. Dozens o f m ilitants were reported killed in the raids, which W ashington said had partly targeted extrem ists plotting an "imm inent attack" against the West. Mike Brown Memorial Torched September 24, 2014 killed. How the fire happened wasn't imm ediately clear, but it stoked fresh resentm ent among those who question w hether the shooting o f the un arm ed, black 18-year-old by a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9 is being adequately inves tigated. Ebola could Infect 1.4 Million U.S. health officials Tuesday laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number o f infected people could explode to at least 1.4 million by mid-January - or peak well below that, if efforts to control the outbreak are ramped up. Child Killed In Window Fall A 3-year-old Portland boy who fell from a second story window and landed on the concrete below did not survive his injuries despite the life-saving efforts o f m edical staff at a Portland hospital. Police said the fall happened Sunday afternoon as he was playing with other children in an upstairs b ed ro o m . The case is a sad rem inder of the dangers o f upper floor windows. Record Chinook Salmon Run A n g e r s p ille d over Tuesday in Ferguson, M o., a f te r fire d e stro y ed one o f two m em orials on the street where M ike Brown was For the second consecutive year, fall Chinook salmon returning to the Columbia River Basin are shattering modern-day records. The Northwest’s iconic fish are returning in numbers not seen since 1938— more than 75 years ago— when counting began after construc tion of the Bonneville Dam. Low Income Adults Gain Coverage Health insurance now covers most Oregonians (AP) — A new study shows 95 percent of Oregonians now have health insurance coverage, largely thanks to the state's expansion of Medicaid to many previously ineli gible low-income adults. The study, released Thursday, was conducted by Oregon Health & Science University in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority. It shows the number o f unin sured Oregonians fell from about 550,000 in June 2013 to roughly 202,000 in June 2014, or about 5 percent of Oregon's population of 3.9 million residents. Most of the newly insured gained co v erag e th ro u g h the O regon Health Plan, Oregon's version of M edicaid, w hich expanded by 360,000 people. Some previously had private insurance, but it's likely the vast majority was uninsured. While public insurance cover age increased in Oregon, private insurance coverage slightly de creased, by less than 1 percent. The decrease was due to a drop in the number of people covered by employer-sponsored coverage— by 47,000 individuals, or 2.5 percent. The trend isn't new: Employer sponsored insurance has been de creasing for more than a decade, said Peter Graven, a health econo m ist at OHSU and the study's au thor. The drop in employer-spon sored coverage was likely caused by businesses closing, new ones opening and not offering insurance, and some employers dropping cov erage, he said. The number o f Oregonians buy- ing private insurance directly from insurers also is on the decline in the state. It dropped by about 26,000 people, or 15 percent. Some carriers have reduced direct purchase op tions, directing people instead to buy plans via the Cover Oregon insurance exchange. Those declines in private insur ance coverage were somewhat off set by an increase in private, non employer coverage purchased via the exchange. Eighty percent of the plans purchased through Cover Oregon were subsidized by the fed eral government. The study shows 76,000 Orego nians bought private plans via the exchange, though the most current numbers indicate more than 100,000 people gained private coverage through Cover Oregon. The study's author says it's not possible to tell exactly how many of those insured via Cover Oregon were previously uninsured and how many had other types o f insurance. Chari es Washington Past Publisher of the Portland O bserver In memory of an outstanding and dedicated member of Portland's Longest Standing M inority Publication. 1 f J o r tla n h ( D h s m n
