Portland area public health officials said Tuesday that some healthcare workers who are eligible to receive vaccines may have to wait multiple weeks if not months to receive them.
Portland Public Schools:
In the latest update from the school board, it said that it has expanded in-person learning opportunities but has not yet started hybrid learning for all K-5 students as it had intended.
In January, PPS chief of schools Dr. Shawn Bird spoke on the moves PPS was making to try and make hybrid learning possible. It hopes to begin the transition in April.
“School administrators have been identifying the students that are eligible, and they’re reaching out to families individually, making sure that families understand this is optional and we want to make sure they feel safe,” he said.
Portland s new rent control ordinance, including an inflation-based cap on rent increases, applies to short-term rentals as well as traditional long-term rentals, the city has determined.
The city released additional clarification to its official interpretation of the ordinance that says short-term rentals are subject to the same annual rent increase caps that long-term rentals are, must submit information annually and follow other rules of the new ordinance.
Exempt from the rules, for both short-term and long-term rentals, are landlord-occupied buildings with fewer than five units.
Owners with short-term rentals posted on Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway and other sites generally raise and lower rents relative to the area s market, the season, local events that draw big crowds and other factors.
People will actually feel comfortable : Students champion choice to rename Portland school after Black activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The high school was originally named for former Pres. Woodrow Wilson, whose administration segregated federal offices. He also wrote a book sympathetic to the KKK. Author: KGW Staff, Maggie Vespa Published: 4:45 PM PST January 15, 2021 Updated: 5:31 PM PST January 18, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore A committee tasked with renaming Southwest Portland s Woodrow Wilson High School has recommended the school be named after Black journalist, activist and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Portland Public Schools (PPS) announced Friday.
Wells-Barnett was an investigative journalist and activist who was born into slavery during the Civil War in 1862. She co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first Black women s suffrage association.