• Portland Mayor, Sam Adams Delay's Portland's anticipated ban on plastic bags.
• The crisis in the Gulf of Mexico intensifies as oil spews from a newly broken well.
• The U.S. Senate fails to pass legislation requiring politicians to disclose corporate political donations.
• Transgender activists in Massachussetts are fighting for legal protections.

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• A Southern California Mosque site is targeted by a local Tea Party group.
• A recent Army report reveals suicide rates have increased among solders after they return from overseas deployment.
• A heated Portland City Council discussed an indepedent report on the death of James Chasse, who died at the hands of local police on September 17th, 2006.

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• Portland Community College is facing such high enrollment that they are starting to turn students away.
• In response to a recent report ranking that lists Portland as 2nd in the U.S. for under-age sex trafficking, The YWCA of Portland recieves a grant to open a shelter for underage sex workers.
• Military conflicts escalate between Israel and Lebanon.
• Activists in Oaxaca, Mexico gathered to protest growing government aggression against their independant municipality.