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The transformation of Cully Plaza into something positive for the community draws the support of U.S
Sen. Ron Wyden who toured the facility with community volunteers Thursday.
Senator visits Cully Plaza
Grateful for work to transform blighted block
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Women in the trades were
wading through construction de-
bris at Cully Plaza in northeast
Portland Thursday as U.S. Sen.
Ron Wyden strapped on a con-
by
struction helmet and a pair of
goggles.
The Oregon Democrat donned
the safety equipment to visit the
dilapidated site and to meet and
support the work of local res-
idents who are embarked on a
The
mission to remodel the string
of closed adult businesses into
something positive for the com-
munity.
What was once a strip club
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movement backed by civil rights
organizers, anti-racism activists,
and unions, to help rehabilitate
and reintegrate former prisoners
into working society.
A double suicide and terrorism at-
tack in Beirut on Thursday night
killed 43 people and injured over
200 people. The next night a se-
ries of coordinated terrorist attacks
were leveled in Paris, killing 129
people and injuring an estimated
430 others. Militants from the Is-
lamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
have claimed responsibility.
A student who says she was raped
at an underage drinking party at a
coach’s house filed a $3 million
lawsuit Monday against Pacif-
ic University. The attacker was
initially only suspended for a
year, according to attorney Greg
Kafoury, but the college agreed to
expel him when she threatened to
go to the media.
Attacks in Beirut and Paris
Student Sues Pacific University
Governor Welcomes Refugees Two Women Struck By Max
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown an-
nounced Tuesday that the state
would continue to welcome refu-
gees from Syria amidst a call by
Republican governors across the
country to stop Syrian refugees
from entering their states follow-
ing the terrorist attacks in Par-
is. “The words on the Statue of
Liberty apply in Oregon just as
they do in every other state,” said
Brown, a Democrat.
Ban the Box Returns
The Portland City Council will
discuss a proposed ordinance
Wednesday that would require
most employers to wait until af-
ter they’ve extended a job offer to
look into someone’s criminal his-
tory. The action follows the Ban
the Box campaign, a nationwide
A woman struck by a TriMet MAX
train in Gresham Friday night re-
mained listed in critical condition
Tuesday. In a separate incident on
Monday morning, a woman was
struck by a MAX train at the El-
monica Station in Beaverton. She
was expected to survive her inju-
ries, but lost a leg in the collision.
Death Sentence Affirmed
A Clackamas County jury found
that Dayton Leroy Rogers should
receive the death penalty for kill-
ing six women in 1987. This was
the fourth time that Rogers was
sentenced to death for the torture
and brutal killings of the women
whose bodies were found in a nat-
ural area outside of Molalla. The
previous verdicts were overturned
by the Oregon Supreme Court.