As Portland prepares to slash bureau budgets ahead of 2024-25 fiscal year, residents make their case for investments in alternative response programs and gun violence reduction. by Courtney Vaughn As the city of Portland prepares to make deep cuts to avoid a projected budget deficit for the 2024-25 fiscal year, Portlanders are pressuring city council to keep Portland Street Response off the chopping block. Residents showed up in...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box and then YOUR HEAD.) • Mayor Wheeler’s Office Pledges to Support, Sustain Portland Street Response As...
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This month, at the 2024 Business, Government & Society Forum at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, spoke about the importance of companies taking responsibility for the impact they have on society.
BATON ROUGE With hurricane season nearing, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is gathering emergency response teams from all over the state to get ready for what they could potentially face.At this meeting, they reviewed old events that happened in Louisiana and use these real-world events to tailor them to fit their own scenario.One they reviewed was a Category 3 hurricane, but it sped up and came in much faster that anticipated. During the exercise, they...
The Coyotes have been experiencing uncertainties in Arizona, making Salt Lake City, Utah, a potential option for the NHL franchise.
Mass-blooming, monoculture crop fields don't seem to reduce the microbial diversity in a bee's gut, University of Oregon researchers have found in a study of sunflower farms, but they do amplify the spread of infectious parasites.
The U.S. and its allies are sounding an unusually urgent alarm over Iran’s possible plans to retaliate in the coming days over Israel’s purported killing of senior Iranian officials at a diplomatic mission in Syria. An Iranian action, it is feared, would probably provoke an Israeli response, which could ratchet up violence in the region. U.S. officials said this week that Iran appears to be lining up a series of potential retaliations, including direct attacks on Israeli assets — within Israel...
We can’t just sweep violence under the rug. But a punitive approach to public safety isn’t the way, either. by Taylor Griggs Last Friday evening, Michael Brady boarded an eastbound MAX train downtown. Tragically, he wouldn’t make it off the train alive. After being stabbed on the train near the 82nd Avenue station, Brady succumbed to his injuries. The suspected killer, Shondel Larkin, told police he had been hearing voices and...
In 2024, the Patriots brought the Bill Belichick Era to an end with a whimper instead of a bang after parting ways with their longtime head coach in the wake of the team’s third losing season in four years. However, it doesn’t sound like he’s content with riding off into the sunset based on a […]
We depend on our cells being able to divide and multiply, whether it's to replace sunburnt skin or replenish our blood supply and recover from injury. Chromosomes, which carry all of our genetic instructions, must be copied in a complete way during cell division. Telomeres, which cap the ends of chromosomes, play a critical role in this cell-renewal process—with a direct bearing on health and disease.
Andy Lowery, Epirus’ CEO, told Breaking Defense that the company’s technology would be a good fit for the ongoing Red Sea situation.