Teachers fail to get jobs following graduation
PORTLAND Most of the estimated 2,400 newly minted teachers who graduated from Oregon colleges of education this year were unable to get hired anywhere in Oregon, proving that a job often billed as recession-proof is not. Education deans and others ...
 6.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 Demand for food stamps climbs
SALEM (AP) Despite early signs of economic recovery, demand for food stamps continues to rise in Oregon. State social services officials have watched the need rise for months across Oregon, but recently released numbers that show 635,033 Oregonians...
2.8K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 Sheriff resigns after recall from retirement
PORTLAND (AP) The sheriff of the most populous county in Oregon has resigned after being called back to duty from retirement. Multnomah County Sheriff Bob Skipper came out of retirement to replace former Sheriff Bernie Giusto, who resigned after a ...
1.1K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Concerns over state's plan for Ore. herbicide dump
PORTLAND (AP) A proposed agreement between Oregon environmental regulators and Bayer CropScience over the costs of monitoring and future cleanup at one of the state s most contaminated dump sites is drawing criticism. The proposal would make taxpay...
4.1K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Lawyer: Complaints on groping paramedic overlooked
PORTLAND (AP) An ambulance company ignored complaints it had a sexual predator on staff, an attorney told a jury in the opening of a civil lawsuit filed against the company, which employed a paramedic who has admitted he groped patients. Royshekka ...
3.0K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 City hopes to survive the times
CLOVERDALE (AP) Hard as it may be to imagine, this little town on a bend in U.S. 101 was once a hopping place. Ask anyone here. There were two grocery stores, a barber shop and beauty parlor, two filling stations, an art gallery, a fine dress shop,...
6.0K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Used laptop helps settle discrimination claim
PORTLAND (AP) A used laptop computer and $25,000 will settle a racial discrimination complaint filed by a former Portland Fire Bureau employee. Kita Montgomery had worked as an office support specialist for more than 16 years until budget ...
1.0K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Lottery may cut commissions it pays to taverns
PORTLAND (AP) With overall lottery revenue declining, Oregon Lottery officials are opening debate on whether to cut more deeply into the video gambling commissions paid to bars and taverns that host the machines. Last year, the lottery paid out abo...
3.2K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Oregon, care providers fault billing system
SALEM (AP) Oregon state officials and care providers are agreeing on one thing: A new state computer system that handles 2 million state Health Plan payment claims each month has serious glitches. State officials say low-income Oregonians who quali...
3.8K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Construction stall causes Portland layoffs
PORTLAND (AP) A construction slump in Portland has resulted in a 50 percent cut in the staff of the city s Bureau of Develop-ment Services. The Oregonian reports that the agency plans to shed about 150 of its 300 employees by Oct. 1, more layoffs a...
1.0K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
