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Rani Hong, founder of the anti-human-trafficking nonprofit the Tronie Foundation, says she's getting the feeling that human trafficking is finally becoming a topic of mainstream conversation.
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For those of you wondering when we'll have a conclusion to the Merkley/Smith dead heat, here's the estimate from the Multnomah County Elections Division: Thursday morning.

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News By March, James Pond hopes to open a high-security safe house in Portland with 16 to 20 beds for girls recently freed from sex trafficking. It will be the first shelter of its kind in the country, an ...   More

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New Project Vote Smart findings congratulate Oregon for placing third among the 50 states on a ranking of Congressional candidates' willingness to take the group's    More

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So much for just telling minors to "just say no."
In a new campaign that seeks to tamp down underage drinking, the Oregon Partnership and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission are bypassing minors and instead directing their message a...   More

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Over the past 18 months, we've developed a few ideas about the way presidential campaigns are supposed to be run. Ralph Nader, who appeared Monday night at Portland's Bagdad Theatre & Pub tonight for a press conference and rall...   More

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News Kelley O’Gorman caught her first whiff of economic turmoil early this summer not from a headline, her struggling stock portfolio or more panhandlers asking for money outside her office in the Pe ...   More

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Oregon voters, you've outdone yourselves! Late this afternoon, just a few minutes shy of the 5 pm voter registration deadline, election officials announced a new record: the number of registered Oregonians had climbed to 2,143,290, surpassing the record set in 2004, when 2,141,249 Bea...   More

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It's looking like Portland won't be receiving any visits from presidential hopefuls this campaign season – and not any vice-presidential candidates or prospective first spouses either. But hey, at least we got a potential First Brother-in-law!
That's right, Crai...   More