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April 11, 2018
Annual
Spring
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D. Bora Harris is joined by friends, family and supporters to formally announce her campaign to run
for chair of the Multnomah County Commission at a campaign rally Friday outside the Multnomah
County building in southeast Portland.
Running for County Chair
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Championing the causes of
the elderly, homeless people, af-
fordable housing, and the inter-
ests of children, D. Bora Harris,
a business specialist and consul-
tant from the black community,
formally launched her candidacy
for Multnomah County Chair on
Friday at the Multnomah County
Building in southeast Portland.
Harris has a Masters degree in
public administration, experience
in both the public and private sec- D. Bora Harris
Pearl Homeless
Shelter Proposed
Portland real estate developer
Homer Williams and Columbia
Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle an-
nounced a partnership Tuesday
to build a homeless shelter in the
Pearl District to bring100 beds to
a city-owned lot near the west side
of the Broadway Bridge. Oregon
Harbor of Hope, a nonprofit that
Williams founded, will be funded
in part from a $1.5 million dona-
tion from Boyle.
Week
in
Review
The
neighborhoods transformed by
displacement and gentrification
has fallen short, according to a
report before the Portland City
Council last week. The monies
were set aside in 2014 to fund the
North/Northeast Portland Housing
Strategy, but only a small number
of low-income households were
Housing Goals Fall Short
actually able to access the pro-
A $20 million initiative to help gram to stay in their neighborhood
black residents stay or return to or move back to their original lo-
cation. Mayor Wheeler called the
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Facebook CEO on Data Use
After privately assuring senators
his company will do better, Face-
book’s Mark Zuckerberg faced a
joint hearing of the Senate Judi-
ciary and Commerce Committees
Tuesday to testify on the use of
and protection of Facebook user
data in the wake of the Cambridge
tors and has been active in politics
and various community organiza-
tions for decades. She is president
of D. Harris Leadership Institute,
a limited liability corporation
where she developed the “Move
Beyond Your Walls Initiative.”
“The race is about us,” Harris
said, in a news erlease announc-
ing her candidacy in the May Pri-
mary Election. “We the people of
Multnomah County are in desper-
ate need of a county chair who re-
flects good and fair government.
Multnomah County is a shining
county, yet there are so many
places and spaces where that glit-
C ontinued on P age 6
Analytica scandal and Russian in-
terference in the 2016 U.S. presi-
dential election.
Trump Lawyer Offices Raided
FBI agents raided the offices
of President Trump’s personal
lawyer on Monday looking for
records about payments to two
women who claim they had affairs
with Mr. Trump, and information
related to the publisher of The Na-
tional Enquirer’s role in silencing
one of the women, several people
briefed on the investigation said.
PPS Won’t Fire Teacher
An African American teacher who
was placed on leave for a student
walk out will not face termina-
tion by Portland Public Schools
after a rally of support from par-
ents and students. Social studies
teacher Chris Riser was placed
on leave from Ockley Green Mid-
dle School in March for leading a
Feb. 9 demonstration in the streets
that involved students lying on the
ground in protest after an assem-
bly involving the activist group
Don’t Shoot Portland.
June Key Delta Center Forum
The June Key Delta Community Center, 5940 N. Albina Ave., will
host a public candidates forum with Portland City Council candidates
on Wednesday, April 11 at 6 p.m. We regret that the address was
wrong in last week’s issue.