OCTOBER 17, 2018
Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 3
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News ...............................3,9,10 A & E ........................................6
Opinion ...................................2 Cancer Awareness ..........7
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
EARSHOT JAZZ
The Rev. E.D. Mondainé
Ordinance is part of a
larger push to upgrade
older buildings — and
some worry it could
cause displacement
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
ast week Portland City Council
passed an ordinance that requires
owners of buildings with unrein-
forced masonry to place placards
on those buildings and notify tenants
and visitors the building could be un-
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In this file photo
dated Wednesday,
Oct. 3, 2018,
Britain’s Prince
Harry, right, and
Meghan, Duchess
of Sussex visit the
Pavilion Building in
Brighton, England.
AP PHOTO/TIM IRELAND, FILE
See URM on page 3
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
City to
Require
Placards on
Unreinforced
Masonry
The Marquis Hill Blacktet including trumpeter Marquis Hill, the Winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, played Oct. 8 at the
Royal Room as part of the 30th Annual Ear Shot Jazz Festival. The 2018 festival features 60 events in a variety of venues including the Langston Hughes
Performing Arts Institute, The Triple Door, the Royal Room and several other places around the city. The festival runs through Nov. 4. Winner of the 2014
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Hill embodies the new Chicago sound with Braxton Cook (sax), Joel Ross (vibes), Jeremiah Hunt (bass),
and Jonathan Pinson (drums). Earshot Jazz Presents: Marquis Hill Blacktet. For more information about the festival, visit www.earshot.org.
Portland Reduces Fees for Cannabis Businesses
New rules lower licensing fees for minority-owned businesses and those
businesses who owners or staff were impacted by prohibition
By Melanie Sevcenko
Special to The Skanner
News
ortland City Coun-
cil recently passed a
milestone in marijua-
na regulations when
it voted to reduce fees for
all cannabis businesses in
the city.
Already in effect, the new
rules decrease the annual
license fees from $4,975 to
$3,500, as well as lower the
cost of both the initial and
renewal application fees,
and allow all license types
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to defer payment for up to
six months.
Local licensing fees, in
addition to those collected
on the state-level by the Or-
egon Liquor Control Com-
mission, can sometimes be
a tipping point for small
businesses trying to stay
afloat in the budding can-
nabis industry.
“The fees are so high we
literally had to stop order-
ing product, which is go-
ing to reduce our custom-
er base and make us look
like we’re not on the same
tier as other dispensaries
because we don’t have the
financial backing,” said Ta-
carra Shaw, an employee
of Green Hop dispensary
and small business owner
herself.
Shaw testified in favor of
the reductions during the
city council vote on Sept.
26, adding that the steep
fees affected most aspects
of running a business,
from paying the electricity
bill to scheduling employ-
ees.
Jeannette Ward Horton,
who assisted in reviewing
the language of the new re-
ductions, told The Skanner
that these changes were
critical. “A lack of access to
capital is the biggest barri-
er for businesses of color,
but it’s a barrier for any
small business,” she said.
“And the licensing fees are
just extra and really can
break you as a business.”
Horton runs NuLeaf
Project, a first-of-its-kind
initiative that awards an-
nual grants to cannabis
businesses owned by peo-
ple of color.
Prince Harry
and Meghan’s
Child On Way
Official: Police Found Evidence of Khashoggi Slaying
The royal baby would be
seventh in line for the
British throne page 6
By Fay Abuelgasim, Suzan Fraser
and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press
Journalist vanished Oct. 2 while visiting
consulate to pick up marriage paperwork
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police searching
the Saudi Consulate found evidence
that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi
was killed there, a high-level Turkish
official said Tuesday, and authorities
appeared ready to also search the
nearby residence of the consul gen-
eral after the diplomat left the coun-
try.
The comment by the Turkish offi-
cial to The Associated Press further
intensified the pressure on Saudi
Arabia to explain what happened
to Khashoggi, who vanished Oct. 2
while visiting the consulate to pick
up paperwork he need to get mar-
ried.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo traveled to Saudi Arabia
to talk to King Salman and his son,
See JOURNALIST on page 3
AP PHOTO/EMRAH GUREL
Financial
Literacy page 8-9
See CANNABIS on page 3
The Saudi Arabia consul’s residence, in Istanbul,
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. A high-level Turkish
official says police who searched the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul found evidence that Saudi
writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there.