Oregon: Rep. Peter Buckley – It’s Time for a Pragmatic Approach to a Failed Drug War

Oregon: Rep. Peter Buckley – It’s Time For a Pragmatic Approach to a Failed Drug War – Co-Chair of the Joint Ways and Means Committee for the State of Oregon, Peter Buckley discusses how legalization of cannabis and hemp will create new path fo…

Michael Scripps Sentenced To 9 Years For Swindling Mom, Uncle

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Dezsi said she had run a chaotic house when her son was growing up and was long addicted to drugs. "My client was raised in a very chaotic, somewhat dysfunctional household," Dezsi said. "He was raised in a house where his mother asked him to buy …
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Steve Duin: The homeless takeover of Portland's Southwest Fourth Avenue

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Drugs are available. So are the groceries. "You would not believe the amount of free food that comes in down here," Matney says. "We get at least four meals a day, people coming by." What's more, the summer breeze is soothing, the attention is …
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Slow-Rolling Massacre Unfolds in the Shadow of Shocking High-Profile …

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But they only had them for part of the year and in the early to mid-2000s, the cuts in money for opportunity, the loosening of gun restrictions and the rise of drugs were taking their toll. Khalid and Waleed had played for the Steelers during the 1980s …
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Oregon Sheriffs Making Lemonade

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Oregon Sheriffs have long sought additional state funding to help build local programs for low-level offenders to keep them from re-entering the criminal justice system over and over again. Research data proves that local programs to help addicts and …
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