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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.
A Portland State University football player is in jail after campus security says he got into a drunken dispute with officers.
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.
Anniversary: Phil and Alice Corson
Phil and Alice Corson of Prescott, Ariz., spent most of their lives in Portland, Ore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eating in Oregon: The Portland Farmers Market
This weekend I hopped a train heading south to Portland with room in my suitcase to spare.
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.
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.
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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