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.