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New Blow for Uber as Top EU Court
Says It’s a Taxi Company
Senate Moves Tax Cut Legislation to
Brink of Final Passage
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ride-hailing service Uber suf-
fered a new blow Wednesday as the European Union’s
top court ruled that it should be regulated like a taxi
company and not a technology service, a decision that
could change the way it functions across many coun-
tries in the continent.
Uber, which is wrapping up a particularly punish-
ing year, sought to play down the ruling Wednesday
by the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice.
The company insisted it will try to keep expanding in
Europe anyway.
The court decision could also affect other inter-
net-based businesses, and reflects a larger dilemma
about how governments should treat companies that
operate online and don’t fit in with traditional laws.
The decision stems
from a complaint by
ENROLLMENT
a Barcelona taxi driv-
PROGRAM
ers association, which
ASSISTANT
wanted to prevent Uber
LEAD COOK
from setting up in the
Spanish city. The taxi
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College’s Head Start is
drivers said Uber driv-
seeking a full-time En-
ers should have autho-
rollment Program As-
rizations and licenses,
sistant (PA) and Lead
and accused the com-
Cook (LC). PA supports
management with a wide
pany of engaging in un-
variety of administrative
fair competition.
support functions, in-
Arguing its case, San
cluding project manage-
ment, clerical, and enroll-
Francisco-based Uber
ment duties. LC directs
said it should be regu-
the daily work of on-site
lated as an information
cook, kitchen aides and
services provider, be-
food delivery driver. More
information and to apply:
cause it is based on an
https://www.government-
app that connects driv-
jobs.com/careers/mhcc.
ers to riders.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jubilant Republicans pushed
on early Wednesday to the verge of the most sweep-
ing rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three
decades, a deeply unpopular bill they insist Ameri-
cans will learn to love when they see their paychecks
in the new year. President Donald Trump cheered the
lawmakers on, eager to claim his first major legisla-
tive victory.
After midnight, the Senate narrowly passed the leg-
islation on a party-line 51-48 vote. Protesters inter-
rupted with chants of “kill the bill, don’t kill us” and
Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly called for or-
der. Upon passage, Republicans cheered, with Trea-
sury Secretary Steve Mnuchin among them.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in-
sisted Americans would respond positively to the tax
bill.
“If we can’t sell this to the American people, we
ought to go into another line of work,” he said. Trump
hailed the vote in an early morning tweet and prom-
ised a White House news conference, likely Wednes-
day, when the House completes legislative action on
the measure.
The early morning vote came hours after the GOP
rammed the bill through the House, 227-203. But it
wasn’t the final word in Congress because of one last
hiccup.
Cardinal Law, Central Figure in
Church Abuse Scandal, Dies
AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK
World Briefs
From left, Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., arrive to speak to members of the media
following a Senate luncheon on Capitol Hill, Dec. 19 in Washington.
Republicans muscled the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax
laws in more than three decades through the House with an expected
vote in the Senate to follow.
The price Mosul’s residents paid in blood to see their
city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civil-
ian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has
been previously reported. The number killed in the
9-month battle to liberate the city from the Islamic
State marauders has not been acknowledged by the
U.S.-led coalition, the Iraqi government or the self-
styled caliphate.
But Mosul’s gravediggers, its morgue workers and
the volunteers who retrieve bodies from the city’s
rubble are keeping count.
Iraqi or coalition forces are responsible for at least
3,200 civilian deaths from airstrikes, artillery fire or
mortar rounds between October 2016 and the fall of
the Islamic State group in July 2017, according to an
Associated Press investigation that cross-referenced
independent databases from non-governmental or-
ganizations.
Most of those victims
are simply described as
“crushed” in health min-
Grant High School Modernization
istry reports.
The coalition, which
2245 NE 36th Ave., Portland, OR
says it lacks the resourc-
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es to send investigators
into Mosul, acknowledg-
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es responsibility for only
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326 of the deaths.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the
disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose fail-
ures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked
what would become the worst crisis in American Ca-
tholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He
was 86.
Law had been sick and was recently hospitalized in
Rome.
Law was once one of the most important leaders in
the U.S. church. He broadly influenced Vatican ap-
pointments to American dioceses, helped set priori-
ties for the nation’s bishops and was favored by Pope
John Paul II.
But in January 2002,
The Boston Globe began
a series of reports that
used church records
to reveal that Law had
Portland International Airport (PDX)
transferred abusive cler-
Parking Additions and Consolidated
gy among parish assign-
Rental Car Facility (PACR)
ments for years with-
out alerting parents or
Electrical Trade Partner
police. Within months,
Bids Due: 2:00pm PST, Jan. 12, 2018
Catholics around the
country demanded to
JE Dunn Construction invites written and sealed
know whether their bish-
proposals for qualified Trade Partners to provide
preconstruction and design-assist services for Elec-
ops had done the same.
trical Work on the PACR project. Upon successful
Law tried to manage the
preconstruction participation, the intent is to award
mushrooming scandal
the Trade Partner a contract to furnish and install
the Electrical scope of work.
in his own archdiocese
by first refusing to com-
A pre-proposal meeting will be held at the Port of
ment, then apologizing
Portland HQ, Anchor Conference Room, 7200 NE
Airport Way, Portland, OR 97218 on December 13,
and promising reform.
2017 at 10:30am PST. Any Proposal received after
But thousands more
the specified date and time will not be considered.
church records were re-
A complete copy of the RFP can be obtained by
leased describing new
emailing Robert Means at Robert.Means@jedunn.
cases of how Law and
com.
others expressed more
Proposals must be delivered to JE Dunn Construc-
care for accused priests
tion, Attn: Robert Means, 424 NW 14th Ave, Port-
than for victims. Amid
land, OR 97209.
a groundswell against
the cardinal, including
rare public rebukes from
some of his own priests,
Law asked to resign and
424 NW 14th Ave
the pope said yes.
REQUEST FOR BIDS
9,000-Plus Died
in Battle with
Islamic State
Group for Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) —
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: 503-978-0800
SUB-BIDS REQUESTED
Pre-Bid Walkthrough: An optional pre-bid walk-
through will be held at 2:00pm on Monday, De-
cember 18th, 2017. Attendees should meet at the
front entry of the school. All trades are welcome
and encouraged to attend. Millwork and Casework
bidders are highly encouraged to attend to review
the refurbishment of existing millwork.
blumenauer@mhcc.edu
or (503) 491-6142 with
any questions.
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All proposals shall be submitted through email or de-
livered in a sealed envelope with a flash drive con-
taining electronic documents to the attention of Erin
Storlie and David Evans at the following address:
Andersen Construction
6712 N. Cutter Circle
Portland, Oregon 97217
ATTN: Erin Storlie & David Evans
Email: estorlie@andersen-const.com &
devans@andersen-const.com
6712 N. Cutter Circle
Portland, OR 97217
Phone 503-283-6712
CCB # 200258
JE Dunn Construction reserves the right to select
the best value response, negotiate with multiple
proposers, or reject all responses. This is an Equal
Opportunity and encourages Minority, Woman, Vet-
eran, and Emerging Small Business participation.
We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly
encourage the participation of emerging small busi-
ness, women-owned, disadvantaged, disabled vet-
erans and minority enterprises.
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