The lone holdout: Commissioner Josh Liebman, who lamented the cost to the city. Liebman, a real estate agent who has served on the commission since 2012, said city employees already receive ten paid national holidays, two to four weeks of vacation, two weeks of sick time, and a handful of city holidays or half-days each year. We have to be very careful about paid-day-off creep, he said at the meeting.
Juneteenth has become more widely recognized as a holiday in recent decades, although a number of companies and local and state governments began to designate June 19 as a holiday after the racial-justice protests that emerged last summer following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Miami-Dade made Juneteenth a paid holiday for county workers in October, and the City of North Miami Beach did so last month.
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RV donated to Detroit couple living in hotels after wildfire
The Becks lives changed dramatically on Sunday when they received a donated RV from Be Bold Street Ministries. Author: Christine Pitawanich Updated: 9:18 PM PDT April 2, 2021
DETROIT, Ore. Right now, there are still people who are living in hotels after their home burned in the wildfires back in September. That was the case for Charles and Linda Beck who KGW spoke with a couple weeks ago. They’d been forced to live in hotels after the fire burned their RV.
But their lives changed dramatically on Sunday.
“We got here early to make sure the spot was ready for them and when they come pulling in, we took one look at it and I was like, ‘Whoa look at that.’ I was jumping up and down [saying], ‘Over here! Over here! ” Charles Beck said.
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Oregon’s drug treatment system is not ready for Measure 110 aftermath, Salem Reporter finds
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Posted Feb 06, 2021
“Oregon has one of the worst prevention systems in the country measured by dollars spent,” said Mike Marshall, executive director of Oregon Recovers, which advocates for improving addiction treatment. Courtesy of Oregon RecoversCourtesy of Oregon Recovers
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By Rachel Alexander and Saphara Harrell, Salem Reporter
Oregon is poised to dramatically expand an addiction treatment system that already consumes millions of dollars each year with no clear results.
Oregonians passed Measure 110 last fall to take drug users out of jails and put them into clinics. That could move thousands of people into a system already clogged and lacking evidence it’s effective, an investigation by Salem Reporter found.