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Oregon Lawmakers Debut Three Concrete Proposals to Change How the State Is Policed

Gov. Kate Brown issued a remarkably guilt-inflected admission June 1 as she announced her decision to mobilize the Oregon National Guard to help support Portland police during the protests.

Gov. Kate Brown Agrees to Activate Oregon National Guard for Portland Protests, but Unarmed

Brown also condemned the police shooting of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis.

Gov. Kate Brown Fires Oregon Employment Department Director

“In the middle of this pandemic, the continued delays from the Oregon Employment Department in delivering unemployment insurance benefits to thousands of out-of-work Oregonians are unacceptable,” Brown said in a statement.

Petition to Keep Salons Closed Nets Nearly 10,000 Signatures

Salons are a site of high risk for COVID-19 transmission. The governor’s office has said it is working to decrease the risk as businesses reopen.

Readers Respond to the Reopening of Oregon

“Sorry, I’m not gonna go to a restaurant if everybody [in masks] looks like they’re getting ready for surgery.”

Gov. Kate Brown Says Clackamas County Can Reopen Tomorrow, May 23

The approval creates a new imbalance at the border of Multnomah and Clackamas counties—which meet at the southern edge of Portland.

COVID-19 Blows a $2.7 Billion Hole in the State’s Quarterly Revenue Forecast

Gov. Kate Brown is now likely to call the Legislature into a special session to cut agency budgets to reflect the new economic reality.

Even as Gov. Kate Brown Reopens Oregon, a Shortage of Masks and Other Personal Protective Equipment at Hospitals Suggests a State Still in Crisis

Staying home was supposed to buy time—and supplies.

Murmurs: Nursing Homes and Hospitals Seek Legal Protection

In other news: Prisons order hydroxychloroquine.

Willamette Week

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