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FEBRUARY 27, 2019 Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 22 25 CENTS News ................................ 3,6,8 A & E ........................................5 Opinion ...................................2 Poor People’s Campaign .8 Calendar .................................4 Bids/Classifieds .....................7 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY ADAM J VOGT VIA WIKIPEDIA INSTEAD OF JAIL? It’s unclear how many jobs, students will be affected by cut By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News ortland Community College an- nounced to faculty and staff last week that it’s closing its comput- er applications and web technol- ogies program. The number of jobs af- fected — and the impact of the change on students — is not clear. The school has promised to “teach P See PCC on page 3 People gather around a table to work on black out poems during, Instead of a Jail? An Evening of Art & Imagination Feb. 19 at Washington Hall. The event, which was hosted by Creative Justice and No Youth Jail, invited participants to imagine another use for the controversial youth jail being built in Seattle. People could write poetry, redesign the jail using the existing plans, make vision boards and paint pictures of how they would like to see the jail repurposed. The organizers are holding two more similar events in South Seattle in the near future and plan to ultimately present their ideas to the County. Grand Jury Declines to Indict Officer in Gladen’s Death On heels of not-true bill, PPB announces policy change regarding officers’ knives The Skanner News ast week the Mult- nomah County Dis- trict Attorney’s Of- fice announced that a grand jury had declined to indict Portland Police officer Consider Vosu in connection with the Jan. 6 death of Andre Gladen. Gladen was 36, was legal- ly blind and suffered from schizophrenia. Gladen died after he appeared at a home in AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE L Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Feb. 27. World News Briefs page 6 Kam’s Oscar Recap page 6 southeast Portland asking for help and the resident called police to the scene. Early reports said Glad- en charged officers with a “martial arts-type throw- ing knife” and ran at the officer, prompting Vosu to shoot and kill him. On Jan. 8 PPB put out a press release with a photo of the knife. On Jan. 14 The Oregonian reported the knife found at the scene is “similar to a knife that officers com- monly carry on the job.” This week the police bu- reau announced it was banning officers from car- rying open knives on their outside ballistic vests, noting that such knives are “easily accessible by suspects,” according to The Oregonian. That story went on to say PPB had “declined repeatedly to acknowl- edge that the knife Gladen dropped after he was shot belonged to Officer Consid- er Vosu,” and said the knife Oregon Will Be First in the Nation to Impose Statewide Rent Control Rent control bill passed this week imposes limits on the number of time landlords can raise rent, and caps the rate By Sarah Zimmerman Associated Press SALEM — Oregon will become the first state in the nation to impose statewide mandatory rent control af- ter lawmakers passed a measure that will establish protections for peo- ple in the increasingly competitive housing market. The House approved the landmark bill 35-25 on Tuesday, over objections from Republicans who argued rent control will discourage investment and do little to address the state’s af- See RENT on page 3 Andrew Gladen was not mentioned in a Feb. 22 meeting between Portland Police Chief Dan- ielle Outlaw, Mayor Ted Wheeler and Gladen’s fam- ily. See GLADEN on page 3 AP PHOTO/ANDREW SELSKY, FILE PCC to Sunset Computer And Web Program PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Technology Classroom Building at PCC Sylvania. In this April 12, 2017, file photo, supporters of a bill to ban most no-cause evictions of home renters in Oregon demonstrate on the Capitol steps in Salem, Ore. Oregon is set to become the first state in the nation to impose mandatory rent control. The measure sailed through the Democratically-controlled House Feb. 26.