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January 16, 2019
2019 special edition
The
Week in Review
Census Citizen Question Rejected by Judge
A federal judge in New York Tuesday struck down the Trump admin-
istration’s plan to write a citizenship question into the 2020 census
putting a freeze on a deeply contentious move that critics said would
discourage non-citizens from participating in the Census. The Justice
Department has said it needed better data on the voting age popula-
tion to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
Costly Government Shutdown
The political cost of a nearly
month-long government shut-
down is mounting as more than
800,000 federal workers miss
their paychecks and as a new
nonpartisan poll shows that near-
ly 2 out of 3 American voters
support reopening the government and do not back Trump’s hard-line
demand of $5.7 billion for a border wall.
Multnomah County Jail Inmate Taken Hostage
An inmate was accused of grabbing another man in the downtown
Portland jail Sunday afternoon and threatening to “snap his neck”
if corrections deputies didn’t release him from custody. Two sher-
iff’s deputies were able to intervene by using force and placed him
in handcuffs. One of the officers was treated for broken ribs and the
other for a dislocated finger.
Son Accused of Stabbing Mother
Brian Toombs, a 28-year-old man with
schizophrenia who has a history of marijuana
and bath salt use was charged with stabbing
his mother in Vancouver last week, police
said. The attack left the 57-year-old woman
with wounds on her head, neck and face -
with at least two of the blows penetrating her
brain, authorities said.
ohsu/K ristyna W entz -g raff
Portland Community College President Mark Mitsui (from left), Portland State University President
Rahmat Shoureshi, Oregon Health Sciences University President Danny Jacobs and Portland Mayor
Ted Wheeler celebrate the start of construction of a new public health building to serve the city and
its three education partners at Southwest Fourth and Montgomery.
photo Courtesy
Health, Education Partnership
Construction
begins for health
center at PSU
A new education and health
center in the heart of Portland
State University’s downtown
campus saw its groundbreaking
Friday with representatives of
its four partnering organizations:
Portland State University, Oregon
Health and Sciences University,
Portland Community College and
the city of Portland.
The $104 million facility will
be located at Southwest Fourth
Avenue and Montgomery Street
and house the OHSU-PSU School
of Public Health. Plans call for
175,000 square-feet of space
across seven stories. The building
will also house PSU’s College of
Education; PCC’s dental hygiene,
dental assistant and dental labora-
tory assistant programs; the city’s
Bureau of Planning and Sustain-
ability; a dental clinic, mental
health services, and ground-floor
retail and restaurants.
“This building will help to
produce the state’s next gener-
ation of public health leaders,”
said Dr. David Bangsberg, dean of
the OHSU-PSU School of Public
Health. He added that the center
will focus on equipping individ-
uals with the ability to identify,
confront, and combat some of the
most vexing causes of health dis-
parities throughout Oregon, the
Pacific Northwest, and beyond.
Speaking to the importance of
the new community partnership,
OHSU President Danny Jacobs,
said the groundbreaking was about
“much more than a new building.”
“It is about the people and pro-
grams that the building will house,
so that we may address issues of
social justice and community en-
gagement, as well as the health
and well-being of those we serve.”
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Montana Man Arrested for Threats on Portland Mayor
A 39-year-old man was arrested last week accused of trying to extort
money from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler through an Instagram mes-
sage in October that contained a threat to harm the mayor’s property
and home, according to a federal indictment. Kermit Tyler Poulson
was arrested Tuesday in Missoula, Mont.
North Greenly Bike Lane Fix Coming, City says
The Portland City Council last week approved a plan to build a pro-
tected two-way bike path on North Greeley Avenue along a dangerous
corridor for bicycle riders between Interstate 5 and Swan Island. The
city will seek bids for the $1.9 million project and hopes construction
will begin this summer and finish four to six months later.
Retaurant Employee Steals $167,240
A former employee accused of stealing $167,240 from the LaCostita
Restaurant in Troutdale received a one year and five month prison
sentence Friday. Keeya Danielle Deshazo, 41, took cash that should
have been deposited into the restaurant’s bank account and placed
those funds in her own private bank account, authorities said.
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