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Oregon is about to drop pandemic restrictions. Close to 70% of people there have had at least their first shot, and that s the threshold the governor set for reopening the state. But that number doesn t tell the whole story. There s a racial gap in the vaccination rate. Katia Riddle reports on a church trying to help close that gap.
KATIA RIDDLE, BYLINE: There s been a feverish countdown in Oregon to unmasking day, with media and state leaders announcing every percentage point change in vaccination rates. But excitement is not the mood at Highland Christian Center.
SHON NEYLAND: It feels like a war. It feels like it is a war of attrition.
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With Oregon’s legislative session nearing a close, backers of sweeping changes to Oregon’s criminal sentencing laws are tempering their expectations. State
As the legislative session nears its end, Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, is pitching smaller changes to Measure 11, the controversial law specifying mandatory minimum prison sentences. Hopes for broad changes to the law are dwindling.