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FEBRUARY 6, 2019 Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 18 25 CENTS News ...............................3,8,10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Dr. Jasmine ......................7 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW MLK BUST AT EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA Portland County Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Hardesty Halts Seismic Placards Wheeler says placarding requirement is ‘still the law’ L See PLACARDS on page 3 Estela Ortega, the Executive Director of El Cento de la Raza (center) and a small crowd celebrate the unveiling of a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. Feb. 1 in Plaza Roberto Maestas at El Centro de la Raza. The sculpture was donated by the artist Jeff Day. Number of Northwest Measles Cases Rises to 54 Officials say anyone showing symptoms should call a health provider before visiting a clinic or hospital The Skanner News Staff hree Multnomah County residents were confirmed to have measles Wednesday, bring the state’s total number of cas- es to four and the regional total to 54. The recently diagnosed individuals were in close contact with a Multnomah PHOTO BY T In this pool image from video, Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic party’s response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Feb. 5 from Atlanta. Abrams calls the shutdown a political stunt that “defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values.” World News Briefs State of the Union, Iran Responds and more page 11 Black Millennials Strive to Attain the American Dream page 8 County resident who test- ed positive for measles Jan. 25. The individuals have remained at home and in regular contact with the Multnomah County Com- municable Disease Ser- vices team. A measles outbreak af- fecting the Pacific North- west has sickened 54 peo- ple, with 11 more cases suspected. Clark County Public Health has confirmed 49 measles cases since Jan. 1, and suspects 11 more, with no new confirmed or sus- pected cases since Monday afternoon. An additional patient has been diagnosed in Seattle. According to informa- tion released by Clark County, 34 of the cases in- volved children between Crisis Escalates in Virginia; Top 3 Democrats Under Fire Following Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook scandal, Attorney General acknowledges his own blackface yearbook photo — and Lt. Gov.-elect faces accusation of sexual assault By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — The political crisis in Virginia exploded Wednes- day when the state’s attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the ages of one and 10, 13 involved individuals be- tween the ages of 11 and 18, one involved a person be- tween the ages of 19 and 29 and one a person between the ages of 30 and 39. A majority — 42 — of those who have contracted measles were not vaccinat- ed against the virus. One See MEASLES on page 3 AP PHOTO/STEVE HELBER, FILE ast week Portland City Commis- sioner Jo Ann Hardesty halted a requirement that buildings in need of seismic upgrades display placards announcing their status. The ordinance was passed in October over the protestations of a coalition led by civil rights groups including the NAACP Portland Branch, which Hard- esty led before her election to the city commission. Placarding requirements for business owners were set to take ef- PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News In this Jan. 12 file photo, Virginia Gov.-elect, Lt. Gov Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand with Lt. Gov-elect, Justin Fairfax, right, and Attorney General Mark Herring at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allega- tions of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor. With Gov. Ralph Northam’s career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the day’s develop- ments threatened to take down all three of Virginia’s top elected offi- See VIRGINIA on page 3