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What We’re Cooking This Week: Smothered Cabbage
Plenty of turkey has been smothered in gravy—and the lucky in kisses. Why not try it with a hearty winter green?
Multnomah County Invests in New Model to Determine Operating Costs for Preschool for All
As Multnomah County tries to map out Preschool for All’s financial future, it will spend $200,000 on a computer model that can calculate how much operating a preschool will cost in the coming decades.
Oregon’s Education Workforce Climbed While Student Enrollment Slid
If decision makers look at where staff growth took place since 2020–21, they will find increases in instructional assistants, administrative staff, special education and student support roles. The number of teachers during that period barely budged.
Do Warm Golf Balls Go Farther Than Cold Ones?
Golf science is like early Christianity, with competing sects all disagreeing on obscure points of doctrine and perennially accusing each other of heresy.
Equal Rights for All Measure Abandons Effort to Qualify for 2026 Ballot
A campaign seeking to enshrine abortion, same-sex marriage and transgender rights in the Oregon Constitution abruptly pulled the plug Feb. 6 on its effort to qualify for the November ballot.
Somehow, Portland Is Sitting on $106 Million in Unspent Housing Dollars
The number of unspent dollars in Portland Housing Bureau coffers, for months believed to be $21 million, has grown fivefold in a week. As business closed Friday afternoon, City Administrator Raymond Lee disclosed that the surplus now totals a whopping $106 million.
OHSU Research Union Threatens to Strike
A nascent research workers union at Oregon Health & Science University says it will strike Feb. 18 if it doesn’t reach a labor deal by then with management.
Portland Public Schools Calls on Legislature to Prevent Cuts Amid a Heated Spending Debate
The call for more money comes during a delicate short session in the Oregon Legislature.
Lloyd Center Has Celebrated Its Last Christmas
The mall will be demolished by winter, to the dismay of the independent businesses who lease there.
OHSU Board to Consider Turning Hillsboro Primate Research Center Into Sanctuary With Help From NIH
The move, even toward talks, is a victory for animal rights activists who have the Trump administration on their side.








