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February 21, 2018
The
Gun Law Passes Oregon House and economic policy shaping.
A proposed law to prevent people
Teachers Endorse Hardesty
from owning guns because of do-
mestic violence or stalking con-
victions was passed by the Oregon
House Thursday. The measure is
intended to save the lives of most-
ly women and children who are
killed by domestic abusers each
year, most of whom were victims’
husbands or boyfriends, according
to Oregon Health Authority data.
The Portland
Association
of Teachers
has endorsed
Jo Ann Hard-
esty in her
May Primary
election race
to
replace
retiring city
Kitzhaber Broke Ethics Laws commission-
Former Gov. John Kitzhaber mis- er Dan Saltzman. Hardesty is the
used his official position for per- current Portland NAACP presi-
sonal gain in 10 instances of vi- dent and a former state lawmaker.
olating state laws, Oregon ethics
Gorge Fire Starter Sentenced
officials voted unanimously Fri-
A 15 year old boy from Vancouver
day. He is accused of allowing his
who admitted to causing the dev-
fiancée Cylvia Hayes to sidestep
astating Columbia Gorge fire last
separation of her privately paid
summer because of his careless-
advocacy and public green energy
Week
in
Review
session was moderator by former flight to Portland to try to con-
PPS student and Rhodes Scholar vince the Trail Blazers to acquire
J.T. Flowers.
him decades ago. Barkley said he
thought the Trail Blazers should
Fired from Black
have paid him back.
Parent Initiative
Former Black Parent Initia-
tive chief executive officer and
co-founder Chalres McGee was
terminated from his position with
the non-profit after a second sexu-
al harassment complaint surfaced
last week. The former Multnomah
Superintendent on Priorities County Commissioner candidate
Portland Public Schools Super- was previously placed on admin-
intendent Guadalupe Guerrero istrative leave pending an investi-
touched on topics such as more gation.
funding for student clubs and ac-
tivities, more help for students at Trail Blazers Repay Barkley
risk of dropping out, and improv- Trail Blazers All-Star Damian Lil-
ing student safety from gun vio- lard presented NBA Hall of Famer
lence during an address before the and current TNT analyst Charles
Portland City Club Friday. The Barkley a check for $1,197 Sun-
day in response to a story Barkley
told days before of a self-funded
ness with fireworks was sentenced
to 1,920 hours of community ser-
vice and five years of probation
Friday. “I apologize with all my
heart,” he said in court after plead-
ing guilty to 12 misdemeanors.
Prosecutor Resigns
from Board
Federal
prose-
cutor and Ore-
gon native Ryan
Bounds resigned
from the Mult-
nomah Bar Asso-
ciation’s Diversi-
ty and Inclusion
Committee, at the
organization’s request last week,
following resurfaced opinion
pieces he wrote in college that
expressed racist, sexist, and ho-
mophobic views on multicultural-
ism. Bounds is President Trump’s
nominee to the U.S. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals.
1970 Benson graduate and Portland General Electric Chief
Executive Officer Jim Piro (right) with Benson High School Principal
Curtis Wilson.
Grad Honored with
Benson Support
To honor its retiring chief ex-
ecutive officer Jim Piro, Portland
General Electric recently donated
$100,000 to the engineering pro-
gram at his alma mater, Benson
High School.
But when the Portland School
Board recognized Piro with a
proclamation, he had a surprise of
his own.
“I just wanted to let you
know that my wife and I decid-
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ed to match the grant, so now it’s
$200,000,” Piro said, drawing a
loud ovation in the Benson audi-
torium where the board meeting
was held.
Piro was student body presi-
dent at Benson before graduating
in 1970. After graduating from
Oregon State, he started a 37-year
career at PGE, first as an engineer,
then as President and CEO from
2009 to 2017.
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