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Page 2 VOTE > D. BORA HARRIS MAY 15, 2018 MULTNOMAH COUNTY CHAIR Walk With Me; Hold Hands With Me in FAITH- HOPE - COURAGE for SOLUTIONS B • • • • April 18, 2018 edition CAREERS special OUR ELDERLY OUR CHILDREN OUR HOMELESS AFFORDABLE HOUSING in Week Review Barbara Bush Dies at 92 Former first lady Barbara Bush, the husband and mother of two presidents, died Tuesday at her home in Houston, Texas. She was 92. Bush passed away shortly after decid- ing to forgo further medical treatments for her failing health. Baseball Park Offers Made P uilding The ublic T rust -- Renewed quality of life -- Protect their Environment, Education, Dreams -- “Livable” places to call home -- In places where neighbors know your name Follow me on Facebook and Twitter! 503-936-8020 Borahbora@aol.com – or- dborahformultochair@gmail.com during the speech and Sundaram has been suspended from playing. Investors hoping to bring Major League Baseball to Portland announced Tuesday that they’ve made offers on possible stadium lo- cations. One proposal is for industrial prop- erty in northwest Portland and the other is Portland Public Schools’ Blanchard Educa- tion Services Center, which is less than half a mile from the Moda Center in north Portland. Blazers Open NBA Playoffs Starbucks Orders Bias Training U.S. and Allies Bomb Syria Starbucks said Tuesday it will close more than 8,000 company-owned stores across the nation for one afternoon to train its staff on how to avoid “racial bias” after the arrest of two black men at one of its Philadelphia shops, an incident the coffee giant’s CEO called “reprehensible.” Syria was bombed Friday night by the Unit- ed States, Britain, and France in response to a chemical attack one week earlier which killed at least 42 adult and children civilians outside Damascus. The strikes targeted a chemical weapons research cen- ter, storage facility, and an equipment facil- ity and command center. UP Student’s Speech Offends A University of Portland award ceremony for athletes was disrupted Sunday night when the emcee of the event, senior men’s tennis player Goutham Sundaram, used his opening speech as a platform to broadcast his sexual conquests, including “getting white women to sleep with brown men.” Several student athletes and coach Terry Porter walked out The Portland Trail Blazers faced game two of their best of seven opening round play- off series against the New Orleans Pelicans Tuesday in the Moda Center. The Blazers were hoping to square the series after an opening round loss before moving to New Orleans for game three on Thursday. Mayor Commits to Reforms Committed to fighting back against the Trump Administration, Mayor Ted Wheeler defended the city’s policies of inclusion and vowed to fight for climate change, gun con- trol and the protection of immigrants, “even if it means going to jail,” during his annual State of the City Speech on Thursday. Shelter Shooting Draws Fire Mental health safeguards may have fallen short by d anny P eterson t he P ortland o bserver Federally mandated reforms to better protect people with mental disabilities from being shot by police during a distur- bance appear to have fallen short of pre- venting the recent deadly officer involved shooting at a southeast Portland homeless shelter, according to the Albina Ministerial Alliance, the civil rights advocacy group from the African American community. The Alliance’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, released a statement Thurs- day critical of Portland police in the shoot- ing of a 48-year old man wielding a knife who appeared to be having a mental health Established 1970 P ubLiSher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington a dvertiSiNg M aNager : Office Manager/Classifieds: c reative d irector : r ePorter /w eb e ditor : Leonard Latin Lucinda Baldwin Paul Neufeldt Danny Peterson P ubLic r eLatioNS : Mark Washington Jr. o ffice a SSiStaNt /S aLeS : Shawntell Washington crisis. “Although all the facts of this deadly force shooting are not in and the investiga- tion is not complete this case could possi- bly be a major step backward for the Port- land Police Bureau in the use of ‘excessive force against persons with actual or per- ceived mental illness,’” the statement read. The coalition was a party to a settlement agreement with U.S. Department of Justice four years ago that, after a 2012 federal in- vestigation, found Portland police were us- ing excessive force against them mentally ill people. C ontinued on P age 18 ---------------------- USPS 959 680 ------------------ 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 The 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 news- paper 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, RE- PRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. 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