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The article focuses on Portland's establishment of a policy for reviewing public monuments, distinct from public art, following the toppling of five statues in 2020. Topics discussed include the criteria for monument review, public engagement processes, and concerns about potential divisiveness and mob mentality in decision-making.

An interview with top candidates for Portland City Council, Oregon commissioners is presented. These candidates include incumbent Dan Ryan, community organizer Alanna Joy McCreary, and administrative law judge Vadim Mozyrsky. They talk about what they hope to accomplish with a second term, the unique thing about their background what they can bring to the council, and why they felt called to run.

Https://www.indeed. com/cmp/Nw-Anxi e ty-In sti tu te,-L L C / jobs?jk=c932ee30f7bc8988&start=0 4-21-21 SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER Oregon Community Foundation is hiring a Senior Research Officer, who will work as part of a collaborative, innovative and dynamic team directing, conducting and disseminating research and analysis of Oregon's pressing issues and evaluation of OCF's own programs and initiatives to inform OCF's priorities, activities and operations. GUILTY In this image from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is taken into custody as his attorney Eric Nelson, left, watches, after his bail was revoked after he was found guilty on all three counts in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Housing Advocates Push to Free Public Funds: Critics call current state system "discriminatory", "antiquated". Currently, state statute bars organizations from applying directly for federal and state housing funding. [Extracted from the article]

An interview with Washington native Cynthia Dillard, the Mary Frances Early Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Georgia, is presented. Dillard talks about what excites her about serving at Seattle University, how this path in education got started for her, and her approach to literacy education.

The article reports that the U.S. Census Bureau announced that Oregon will receive a sixth congressional seat by Former Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith running for Congress to tear down the barriers to progress and build pathways to equal opportunity and aggressive to fight those barriers for communities of color, and low-income communities. It mentions that the congress to tear down the barriers to progress and build pathways to equal opportunity.

The article informs about controversial plan to expand a major freeway through a historically Black neighborhood has not changed in the year since the city and community leaders discussion table in protest. Topics include advisory committees slated to make recommendations about the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project's highway caps; and Transportation Commission of the Black community are criticizing any additional delay.

The article report that Measure 110, also known as the Drug Addiction Treatment & Recovery Act (DATRA), passed in November, Oregon was positioned in national headlines as a progressive trailblazer against the disastrous policies of War on Drugs. Topics discussed include dramatically disproportionate sentencing and incarceration of Black Americans on drug possession charges; and the DATRA focuses on creating addiction recovery centers as intake for those seeking addiction treatment.