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20 hrs ago | The Oregonian

Is a college degree worth what it costs?

Portland State Student Ashley McClain and Ed Hallman joined other students last summer for a pancake breakfast before protesting tuition hikes before the state Board of Higher Education later in the morning.

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Related Topix: Breakfast, Life, Food, Oregon, Oregon Government, University of Oregon

Tue Nov 24, 2009

KATU-TV Portland

PSU football player arrested

A Portland State University football player is in jail after campus security says he got into a drunken dispute with officers.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

KPTV Beaverton

MAX Operator On Leave After Boy Left Behind

A light-rail train operator who was at the controls when a boy was separated from his father on a MAX platform is on paid administrative leave, TriMet officials said Monday.

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The Daily Courier

Anniversary: Phil and Alice Corson

Phil and Alice Corson of Prescott, Ariz., spent most of their lives in Portland, Ore.

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Related Topix: Prescott, AZ, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Artists show works at Audubon's Wild Arts Festival

Jane Taylor of Portland with husband Bruce , scan the "6x6 Wild Art Project" deciding which $40 piece of art to take home.

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Related Topix: Portland, OR, Forest Grove, OR, Painting, Arts, Banks, OR, Willamette University

Sat Nov 21, 2009

NPR

Counting Stimulus Jobs Is Tough Work

Recovery.gov allows users to zoom into cities like Seattle to find organizations and businesses that have received federal stimulus funds.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Bike Portland

Gordon Price on the rise of 'motordom' and its urban impacts

Gordon Price addresses the crowd during his presentation yesterday. About 60 people gathered in the Portland Building last night to hear professor and former Vancouver B.C. city councilor Gordon Price share his insights on transportation, land use, and urban planning.

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Related Topix: Portland, OR, Canada

Daily Journal of Commerce

City is eager to get Portland streetcar turned around

Rick Gustafson, the Portland Streetcar operations director , says realigning track through the Oregon Sustainability Center will ease congestion.

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Related Topix: Portland, OR

Rogue Valley IMC

D5 Mobilization to Portland against the WTO

SOUTHERN OREGONIANS ARE HEADING TO PORTLAND DEC. 5 TO JOIN THE CONVERGENCE Vans & Autos will car-pool up and back the same day.

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Related Topix: Downtown (Portland, OR), Portland, OR, Oregon, Ashland, OR, Medford, OR

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Oregonian

If state help isn't coming, let Oregon higher education save itself

Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer lays out a smart, powerful case for allowing Oregon's three research universities to act as public corporations Inside Oregon's beleaguered university system, the biennial let-down that is the legislative budget process is known as waiting for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.

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Related Topix: Oregon, Oregon Government, University of Oregon, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University, Opinion

Westlinntidings.com

Geologist rewrites book on floods

When you ask Scott Burns, a Tualatin resident and geology professor at Portland State University, how the subject of his newly released book would be of interest to non-geologists, he gets practically giddy with excitement.

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Related Topix: Geology, Science, West Linn, OR

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Oregon's 2009 population growth was the slowest of the past decade, study shows

Oregon's population increased to 3.8 million in 2009, but the annual gain of 32,390 people marked the slowest growth of the decade, according to the latest estimates released by Portland State University's Population Research Center .

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Related Topix: Oregon, Washington County, OR, Multnomah County, OR, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR

The Oregonian

Murder-suicides follow national pattern

In a span of one week this month in the Portland area, three murder-suicides resulted in the deaths of six adults and two children.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Oregonian

Educators seek ways to keep students in college

A city street car rolls across the Portland State University campus where educators will gather on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the Oregon University System's student retention rate.

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Related Topix: Oregon, University of Oregon, Western Oregon University, Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University

ClipSyndicate

Jerry Glanville Out As Vikings' Head Coach

Portland State University is expected to announce Tuesday that Jerry Glanville will no longer be the school's head football coach.

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Related Topix: Sports, Video

KVAL-TV Eugene

Earthquake could collapse hundreds of Oregon bridges

Geologists say it's not a question of "if" a large earthquake will happen here in Oregon, rather "when" one will.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Earthquake, Geology, Science

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Saveur.com

Eating in Oregon: The Portland Farmers Market

This weekend I hopped a train heading south to Portland with room in my suitcase to spare.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

The Oregonian

Putting people to work would pay off now, later

Workers employed with federal stimulus funds set a column form in place for the Portland State University sky bridge at Southwest Broadway and Montgomery, part of a seismic upgrade to make it for more stable for earthquakes.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Jack Reed, Democrat, Opinion

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Oregonlive.com

The tree is coming. The holidays are here.

Downtown Portland officially kicks off the holiday season with the arrival of a 75-foot tree at Pioneer Courthouse Square tomorrow.

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Related Topix: Downtown (Portland, OR), Portland, OR

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Tualatin Times

Tualatin geologist rewrites the book on the floods that shaped our landscape

When you ask Scott Burns, a Tualatin resident and geology professor at Portland State University, how the subject of his newly released book would be of interest to non-geologists, he gets practically giddy with excitement.

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Related Topix: Tualatin, OR, Geology, Science, Natural Disasters, Flood

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