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wake.
Ater moving past Hai-
ti, Matthew rolled across
a corner of Cuba and
then began pounding the
southern Bahamas with
winds of 120 mph (195
kph) and heavy rain on a
course expected to take
it near the capital city of
Nassau.
Forecasters said the
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in shelters and hospitals
were overlowing.
He called the hurricane
the biggest humanitar-
ian crisis in Haiti since
the devastating earth-
quake of 2010.
Aid groups with rep-
resentatives in the area
said it was clear that
many homes and crops
were destroyed but that
What we know is that many,
many houses have been dam-
aged. Some lost rootops and
they’ll have to be replaced,
while others were totally de-
stroyed
storm could hit Florida
— or come dangerously
close — late Thursday
or early Friday and then
scrape the East Coast up
to the Carolinas over the
weekend.
Matthew could become
the irst major hurricane
to blow ashore in the
U.S. since Wilma slashed
across Florida in 2005.
On Tuesday, Matthew
swept across a remote
area of Haiti with 145
mph (230 kph) winds,
wrecking homes and
swamping roads.
But government lead-
ers in the poorest coun-
try in the Western Hemi-
sphere said they weren’t
close to fully gauging the
efect in the lood-prone
nation where less pow-
erful storms have killed
thousands.
“What we know is that
many, many houses have
been damaged. Some lost
rootops and they’ll have
to be replaced, while
others were totally de-
stroyed,” Interior Min-
ister Francois Anick Jo-
seph said.
Mourad Wahba, the
U.N. secretary-general’s
deputy special represen-
tative for Haiti, said at
least 10,000 people were
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the extent was impossi-
ble to gauge, especially in
the Grand Anse area on
the southern tip, which
took a direct hit.
“We have people in
Grand Anse that we can-
not reach,” Hervil Cheru-
bin, country director for
Heifer
International,
a nonproit that works
with local farmers.
While the capital, Port-
au-Prince, was essential-
ly back to normal, there
was still widespread
looding across southern
Haiti.
“There’s
absolutely
nothing we can do to
protect ourselves here,”
said motorcycle taxi
driver Joseph Paul as
he watched torrents of
brown water wash over
a road and deluge his
low-lying neighborhood
in Leogane.
“This storm was too
much for us, and we are
at its mercy.”
The U.S. government
said it sent experts to
Haiti to assess the dam-
age and is providing $1.5
million in food and other
disaster assistance.
The hurricane also
blew across the sparse-
ly populated tip of Cuba
overnight.
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doesn’t include enough oversight
to make sure the project actually
creates good job opportunities
for historically disadvantaged
people.
Michael Burch, a representative
for the Paciic Northwest Region-
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nesses run by women, minorities
and other disadvantaged groups
don’t tell a complete story, Burch
said.
Data reporting also needs to
relect whether contractors hire
racial minorities or women into
one-of jobs or
apprenticeships
that place them
on a career track
toward
fami-
ly-wage
posi-
tions.
He’s concerned
the city will
adopt a “watered-down” varia-
tion of the CBA that won’t include
the level of oversight or close data
tracking the CBA included.
“It’s the formula that makes the
CBA what it is,” Burch told The
Skanner.
“The formula’s what works and
the city’s desperately doing ev-
erything they can not to use the
formula.”
Two September hearings at City
Hall focused on the Rocky Butte
Data that lump together
businesses run by women,
minorities and other dis-
advantaged groups don’t
tell a complete story
al Council of Carpenters, said
the Kelley Butte and Interstate
Renovation Projects had signato-
ries including unions, as well as
groups like Portland Youthbuild-
ers and Oregon Tradeswomen
– that required the Metropolitan
Alliance for Workforce Equity to
publish disaggregated data and to
report regularly on how well con-
tractors and the city were meet-
ing hiring targets.
Data that lump together busi-
and Interstate projects: one on
accepting the report and another
on who would be signatories for
similar projects in the future.
A major sticking point in those
hearings: whether groups like
unions would be involved as sig-
natories in Community Beneits
Agreement projects.
Burch said unions don’t neces-
sarily need to be signatories on
projects in the future, but groups
invested in creating opportuni-
ties for disadvantaged people
need to have some oversight.
“I think what we learned from
the two days of council hearings
is there is broad agreement on the
goal, that is, expanding contract-
ing opportunities for women
and minorities and there is some
disagreement about means,”
Commissioner Nick Fish told The
Skanner.
“Whatever you call it, they’re all
designed to get better outcomes.”
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the best way to empower someone is
through economic security.
Brown found herself temporarily
without words to respond to Pierce’s
claim. She told the audience that de-
spite her middle-class upbringing, she
was a survivor of domestic violence
and she has been a professional making
less money than her male colleagues.
“This is not just about power. It is
making sure that people are not dis-
criminated against because of their
gender, because of their race or be-
cause of their sexual orientation,”
Brown said.
Stacey Kaka, the communications
director for Pierce quit his campaign
about two hours ater the controver-
sial remarks, saying she was “greatly
ofended” by what he said.
Pierce later issued an apology to
“Governor Brown and anyone else
who may have taken my comments the
wrong way.” In his statement he said
any woman regardless of economic sta-
tus can be a victim of domestic or sexu-
al violence.
On Monday, the political action com-
mittee Oregon End Violence Against
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plaints. She said all neighborhoods,
regardless of economic status, had inci-
dents of these assaults.
The remainder of the debate high-
This is not just about power. It is making sure
that people are not discriminated against be-
cause of their gender, because of their race or
because of their sexual orientation
Women held a press conference to de-
nounce Pierce’s statements. State Rep.
Carla Piluso said the comment should
disqualify Pierce from being Oregon’s
governor.
“A person who says a better education
or a better job can cure these systemat-
ic problems has no business leading
our state,” Piluso said. “Oregon women
deserve leaders who recognize the on-
going domestic violence in our state.”
Piluso spoke from her experience
as Gresham’s police chief, where they
would map out domestic violence com-
lighted the diferences between the
candidates. Brown is a staunch sup-
porter of Measure 97, the corporate
gross sales tax measure on the Novem-
ber ballot. Pierce rejects the measure
and favors streamlining government
services in order to address the loom-
ing $22 billion PERS liability.
The candidates difered on reforms
to the criminal justice system as well.
Brown favors hiring diverse law en-
forcement oicers, having diversity
trainings and addressing dispropor-
tionate impacts for people of color.
Gov. Kate Brown debated Republican gubernatorial
candidate Bud Pierce at City Club Friday. Pierce’s
remarks about domestic violence drew gasps, boos
and resulted in the resignation of his spokesperson.