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Murmurs: Biden Bundler List Doesn’t Include Any Likely Ambassadors In other news: Blumenauer wants an e-bike tax credit. Biketown? More like Snow City. (Brian Burk) Updated February 17
BIDEN BUNDLER LIST DOESN T INCLUDE ANY LIKELY AMBASSADORS: As President Joe Biden s administration begins filling political appointments, The Washington Post this week speculated on whom he might name to ambassadorships, noting that big donors often get prime posts. (One recent example: Portland hotelier Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor appointed ambassador to the European Union. Sondland s now working on a tell-all book.) Just four Oregonians made the list of the 800 individuals or couples who raised $100,000 or more for Biden: Columbia Sportswear general counsel Peter Bragdon, Portland General Electric executive Nidhi J. Tha
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More than five years ago, 21 youths ranging in age from 8 to 19 asked a federal court to declare
a habitable environment a protected right under the US Constitution. Early on.
wink and a
nod giving the impression it was a feel-good human-interest story about kids. Nothing could’ve been further from the truth.
As it survived one legal challenge after another, the case came to be recognized for
what it could be
the most important environmental law case of all time. One equal in stature to
FORMER EUGENE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING 15-YEAR-OLD
EUGENE, Ore. A former Eugene elementary school teacher pleaded guilty today for sexually abusing a minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
William Hamann, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a child.
According to court documents, on several occasions beginning in 2018 and continuing until July 2019, Hamann paid a minor female for oral sex and recorded the minor performing the sex acts. The minor female was 15 years old during the first encounter with Hamman. Eugene Police Department detectives and FBI agents arrested Hamann on July 26, 2019, when he came to meet the minor a fourth time. Agents searched his mobile phone and found a recording of one of the sex acts. Hamman used social media to arrange the meetings with the minor.
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Aiken said she was “really disturbed” by the medical issues at the jail, considering that she had received weekly status reports that no one in the jail had contracted the coronavirus and learned only of Dibee’s positive test when she ordered a test for him. After that, the jail reported a second inmate also had tested positive.
Aiken ordered Dibee to be released to his sister’s home in Seattle and quarantined there once he tests negative for COVID-19. He’ll be under GPS monitoring and home detention. After his quarantine, he can live with and care for his father, who is suffering from a terminal illness, the judge said.