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March 1, 2017
‘Moonlight’ Best Picture
After a startling presentation mix-up, Barry Jenkins and the Moon-
light cast accepted the award for Best Picture at the Oscars on
Sunday. The coming-of-age drama took home three wins, includ-
ing Mahershala Ali for best supporting actor. And for the first time
in Academy Awards history, a black actor was nominated in every
acting category.
The
Week Review
Jury Sides with Worker
A Portland jury awarded $750,000
to an African American worker
last week who said he was intimat-
ed by racial harassment at Daimler
Trucks, including a noose hung on
the company’s production line on
Swan Island in north Portland.
The jury found Victor Pierce, 59,
had been “subjected to a racially
hostile work environment.
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gery because of President Trump’s
travel ban from certain Muslim
countries.
Air Bag Maker Guilty
Japanese auto parts maker Taka-
ta pleaded guilty on Monday to a
criminal charge and agreed to pay
$1 billion for a scheme to conceal
a deadly defect in millions of its
air bag inflators. Takata admits to
hiding problems that can cause in-
flators to explode with too much
Officer Fired after Posts
A West Linn police officer was force, hurling shrapnel into driv-
fired last week, months after be- ers and passengers.
ing placed on administrative leave
Ali’s Son Held at Airport
over a controversial Facebook
Muhammad Ali’s son was de-
post in which he shared an article
tained at a Florida airport by im-
about a Black Lives Matter protest
migration
with the caption, “So a day of tar-
officials who
get practice.’ The day before, the
quizzed the
officer had commented on such
U.S. citizen
demonstrations as fodder to use a
about
his
vehicle to drive protesters over.
name
and
whether he
Charged with Sex Abuse
Muslim.
Thara John Memory, a Gram- is
According to
my-award win-
reports made
ning musician
public over the weekend, the of-
and
fixture
ficials questioned Muhammad Ali
in Portland’s
Jr. for nearly two hours, repeated-
Jazz commu-
ly asking him “Where did you get
nity since the
your name from?” and “Are you
1970s,
was
Muslim?”
arrested Mon-
day on misdemeanor charges of
Road Patches Begin
sex abuse, attempted sex abuse
The Portland Bureau of Transpor-
and harassment. Police said the
tation launched Patch-a-thon last
charges involve four female vic-
week, a new initiative to fill the
tims, two under the age of 18, go-
many potholes caused by this win-
ing back to 2014.The 68-year-old
ter’s storms. A backlog of more than
was ordered to appear in court on
1,000 potholes have been identified
April17.
by residents and city crews.
Baby Fatemeh Recovering
PO QR code
in
Baby Fatemeh Reshad is now re-
covering at the intensive care unit
at Oregon Health & Science Uni-
versity. OHSU doctors said Mon-
day that they expect the little girl
to “to lead a happy and healthy
life.” Her ordeal gained interna-
tional attention in January when
she was not allowed to come to
the U.S. from Iran for heart sur-
Crackdown on Marijuana
White House Press Secretary Sean
Spicer Thursday strongly indicat-
ed that Jeff Sessions’ Department
of Justice will crack down on rec-
reational marijuana where states
like Oregon have legalized the
drug. “There’s still a federal law
that we need to abide by when it
comes to recreational marijuana,”
Spicer said.