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Page 2 Black History Month Established 1970 USPS 959 680 The 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 he Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. 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 of the newspaper and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. he Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a member of the National Newspaper Association--Founded in 1885, and he National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and he West Coast Black Publishers Association P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington A dvertising M AnAger : Leonard Latin Ofice Manager/Classiieds: Lucinda c reAtive d irector : Baldwin Paul Neufeldt r ePorter /P hotogrAPher : Olivia Olivia CALL 503-288-0033 FAX 503-288-0015 news@portlandobserver.com • ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 Subscribe ! 503-288-0033 Fill Out & Send To: Big Night at the Grammys Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Alabama Shakes were the biggest winners at Monday’s Grammy Awards ceremony that, due to the recent deaths of some semi- nal stars, felt as much a tribute to music’s past as its present. Lamar scored ive Grammys for his break- through hip hop album “To Pimp a Butterly,” the night’s biggest haul. Obama Fights for Pick After the weekend death of Supreme Court Justice An- tonin Scalia, Barack Obama said Tuesday he would nom- inate a candidate to ill the va- cancy who is “indisputably” qualiied. He called on the staunch Republican opposi- tion in the Senate to rise above “venom and rancor” and give the nominee a vote. Telephone: U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer asked federal environmental regulators Friday to act now to respond to public health concerns over dangerously high levels of cad- mium and arsenic in southeast and north Portland. The heavy metals have been traced to discharges from stained glass manufacturing plants whose air emissions fall into a regularity loophole. Address: Higher Minimum Supported Name: or email subscriptions@portlandobserver.com in Week Review Arsenic Hotspots Worry Attn: Subscriptions, PO Box 3137, Portland OR 97208 $45.00 for 3 months • $80.00 for 6 mo. • $125.00 for 1 year (please include check with this subscription form) February 17, 2016 A committee of the Oregon House approved steep increases to the minimum wage Monday night, sending the bill to the full chamber for a inal vote. The proposed legislation would raise wages over the next six years to $14.75 in the Portland area, $13.50 in semi-urban areas including Bend and Eugene, and $12.50 for sparsely populated areas. Oficer Pleads Guilty A Portland police oficer has resigned from the force and pleaded guilty to oficial misconduct, eight months after a woman visiting from Las Vegas said he arrived at her Pearl District hotel room to fol- low up on her domestic assault complaint, stripped naked and ordered her to give him a massage. Je- romine Palaoro, an eight-year veteran of the police bureau, will receive 18 months of probation. Stabbed at Transit Center A 17-year-old boy was stabbed in a ight involving 20 people at the Hollywood Transit Center Monday around 5:30 p.m. The victim was found suffering from traumatic injuries and was taken to a Portland hospital. Witnesses reported seeing several people run away from the scene and get on a westbound MAX train. Unruly Woman Floods ER A woman is accused of looding the emergency room at Gresham’s Mount Hood Medical Center because she was report- edly angry that she had not been discharged yet. Police say Laura Samuel, 33, of Sandy, broke the telephone in her hospital room, and then used its battery to shatter a ire alarm and brake a sprinkler head, unleashing 60 gallons of water per minute into two bathrooms, the adjoining hallway, and three hospital rooms.
