OCTOBER 5, 2016
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CENTS
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 1
News .......................3,6-7,10-14 A & E .................................... 8-9
Opinion ...................................2 Dr. Jasmine ......................6
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ...................15
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
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HEART AND SOUL
Construction has begun on the Washington
Park Reservoir Improvement Project, guided by
a Community Beneits Plan which allocates 1
percent of funds for minority and women-owned
businesses.
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
A
report released by the Equita-
ble Contracting and Purchasing
Commission in September tout-
ed the success of two pilot proj-
ects — the Kelley Butte and Interstate
Renovation Projects — in improving
the rates at which the city hired disad-
vantaged, minority and women and
emerging businesses.
But critics say the formula that guid-
ed the Community Beneits Agreement
See CBA on page 3
World News
Briefs
Veep debate, Yahoo
scans emails and more
page 14
Paisley Park Opens to
the Public for Tours
page 10
Northwest Tap performed their piece #Hellyoutalmbout at Rainier Beach Heart and Soul: A Community Fair! on Saturday, October 1 on the plaza outside
the Rainier Community Center. The event which was sponsored by the Seattle Public Library’s African American Community Engagement Team and the
Parks Department featured free books for kids, incredible entertainment by renowned Seattle artists like, the Total Experience Gospel Choir, Lady “A”
and free hot dogs and hamburgers.
Brown, Pierce Debate Violence, Spending
Remarks on domestic violence drew gasps, boos and a resignation
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
G
overnor Kate Brown
and Republican chal-
lenger Bud Pierce
squared of for a sec-
ond time at the City Club of
Portland Sept. 30.
The discussion between
the candidates was a depar-
ture from the candidates’
polite and courteous, if oc-
casionally spiky, conduct
during the irst debate in
Bend Sept. 24. This time
both candidates iercely
questioned the other’s abil-
ity to lead the state.
Pierce, the Salem oncol-
ogist, pitched a vision of
governing that empha-
sized frugality, cost cut-
ting and empowering job
growth. He also took shots
at Brown’s long politi-
cal career and expensive
government failures that
were undertaken when she
was Oregon’s Secretary of
State.
“We see the Columbia
River Crossing — $240 mil-
lion, no bridge built.We
see Cover Oregon — $300
million, no website that
works, and now we are go-
ing to give Oracle $500 mil-
lion to ix our IT system,”
Pierce said.
Brown, in contrast, por-
trayed herself as a progres-
sive candidate who has
created irst-in-the-nation
policies such as the Oregon
Family Leave Act — which
allows family members to
take time of to tend to fam-
ily illness without fear of
losing their jobs.
“Despite
tremendous
challenges this state has
faced, I am so proud of the
work we have been able to
do together to move Ore-
gon forward,” Brown said.
Pierce’s theme of mar-
ket-based solutions fell
lat when he responded to
a question about domes-
tic violence rates for Ore-
gon women. The City Club
crowd erupted in boos and
gasps when Pierce said
that well-educated women
were protected from do-
mestic violence and dispa-
rate pay rates.
“A woman that has great
education, training and a
great job is not suscepti-
ble to this kind of abuse by
men, women or anyone,”
Pierce said, he added that
See DEBATE on page 3
After Battering Haiti, Hurricane
Matthew Hits the Bahamas
Storm may hit U.S. late Thursday or early Friday
By David Mcfadden
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rescue
workers in Haiti struggled to reach
cutof towns and learn the full ex-
tent of the death and destruction
caused by Hurricane Matthew as the
storm began battering the Bahamas
on Wednesday and triggered large-
scale evacuations along the U.S. East
Coast.
At least 11 deaths were blamed on
the powerful storm during its week-
long march across the Caribbean,
ive of them in Haiti. But with a key
bridge washed out, roads impassable
and phone communications down,
the western tip of Haiti was isolated
and there was no full accounting of
the dead and injured in Matthew’s
See HURRICANE on page 3
AP PHOTO/RAMON ESPINOSA
Critics are concerned the
city won’t use CBA model
in the future
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A woman cries amid the rubble of her home,
destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa,
Cuba Wednesday. The hurricane rolled across
the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight,
destroying dozens of homes in Cuba’s
easternmost city, Baracoa, leaving hundreds of
others damaged.