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Oregon lawmakers approve $200M for housing, homelessness

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers passed a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package on Tuesday, displaying a bipartisan will to tackle two of the state’s most pressing crises.The vast majority of the funding — about $157 million — is aimed at boosting homelessness and eviction prevention services. The money will go toward increasing shelter capacity, addressing youth homelessness, and funding rapid rehousing efforts and rental assistance programs.“This bill will help us build more housing, get people off our streets and make our communities more safe,” Democratic state Sen. Aaron Woods, who carried one of the two bills in the package, said on the Senate floor.Like much of the U.S. West, Oregon has struggled with a surge in homelessness driven in part by high costs and a lack of affordable housing options. Analysts and agencies estimate Oregon is short 140,000 housing units, and federal data shows its homeless population has increased by 22% since 2020.The cr...

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Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

Should Canada Be Following America’s Lead On Democracy?

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Los Angeles public schools closed for second day amid union workers strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

Officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District announced Tuesday evening that schools would remain closed Wednesday amid a strike for better pay and working conditions by tens of thousands of district workers who began picketing early Monday morning.  The strike, which had been in the works for several weeks, includes the support of as many as 60,000 members of the Local 99 of Service Employees International Union and United Teachers Los Angeles. Demonstrators started picketing in the morning rain at LAUSD’s Van Nuys bus yard. Other district workers and supporters demonstrated outside public schools, and thousands of people attended a large rally at the district’s headquarters in Westlake.  Union workers walk the picket line at the LAUSD bus yard in Van Nuys, on March 21, 2023. (KTLA)At the center of the labor dispute is SEIU’s demand that its workers, many of whom are the lowest paid in the district, making $25,000 a year on average, get paid more. The u...

Walnut Creek: One dead, one hurt after tree hits vehicle

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

WALNUT CREEK — A vehicle passenger died and a driver was injured after a tree fall Tuesday in the city’s Rossmoor retirement community, authorities said.While responding to multiple weather-related incidents, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighters learned of a large tree fall that struck a vehicle traveling in the 1000 block of Stanley Dollar Drive just after 7 p.m.When firefighters arrived, they found a tree atop a vehicle with the occupants still inside. The vehicle’s passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Their identity was not available, pending next-of-kin notification from the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office coroner’s division.The vehicle’s driver suffered minor injuries, and their status and condition was not immediately available Tuesday night.Although some first responders cleared the scene by 8:50 p.m., a fire-district social-media post urged residents to avoid the area, saying it would remain closed.Con Fire is cle...

DC History Conference features topics ripped from recent headlines

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

The D.C. History Conference gets underway this week, and several topics that will be covered during the event will be directly tied to recent headlines, including Congress overriding legislation that was passed by District lawmakers.“If you have an interest in D.C. and its neighborhoods and the issues of statehood and disenfranchisement, there’s really something for everyone,” said Laura Brower Hagood, executive director of the DC History Center, which is helping to put on the three-day event.The history conference at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library starts on Thursday and runs through Saturday. It comes just days after President Joe Biden signed into law legislation nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code.The program features more than 100 presenters across 25 sessions, panels and talks. It is free to all attendees, but online preregistration is required.“There is something very different every day,” Hagood s...

Flames bounce back with 5-1 victory over Ducks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Tyler Toffoli had three assists, Calgary scored twice on the power play and the Flames bounced back from a six-goal loss one night earlier with a 5-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.Toffoli has nine points in the past four games, including six assists.Nick Ritchie, Troy Stecher, Rasmus Andersson, Elias Lindholm and Andrew Mangiapane scored Calgary’s goals. Mikael Backlund had a pair of assists and Dan Vladar stopped 19 shots for the Flames, who rebounded from an 8-2 defeat Monday night in Los Angeles.Frank Vatrano scored Anaheim’s lone goal. John Gibson made 38 saves, facing more than 40 shots for the 20th time this season.Calgary has 12 goals with the man advantage over the past month, which is fifth in the NHL. Andersson put Calgary up 3-0 less than three minutes into the third period on a one-timer off Toffoli’s pass. It was Andersson’s 11th goal and his third in the past six games. Mangiapane scored on a breakaway with less than five ...

Kessel, Smith score in 1st, Golden Knights beat Canucks 4-3

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Phil Kessel and Reilly Smith scored in the first period, and the Vegas Golden Knights held on to beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Tuesday night for their fifth straight road win. Teddy Blueger and Pavel Dorofeyev also scored, and William Karlsson had two assists to help Vegas win for the ninth time in 11 games. Jonathan Quick had 31 saves — including 26 over the final two periods — as the Golden Knights moved two points ahead of Los Angeles for first place in the Pacific Division. J.T. Miller had two goals and an assist, and Phillip Di Giuseppe also scored for the Canucks, who had won two straight and seven of eight. Quinn Hughes had two assists and Thatcher Demko finished with 23 saves.The Canucks pulled to 4-3 with 8:17 left in the third. Hughes fired a point shot that Quick stopped and puck went off Miller’s stick to Di Giuseppe, who skated to the right and put it in before the goalie could dive over. It was his fourth of the season.The Canu...

George leaves with injury as Clippers lose to Thunder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers star Paul George got hurt in the fourth quarter of Tuesday night’s 101-100 loss to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder.George went down under the Thunder’s basket with 4:38 remaining. He lay on his back for several minutes before being helped to his feet. Supported by staff on either side, George headed to the locker room, appearing to barely be able to put any weight on his right leg.George had 18 points, seven rebounds and five assists. His potential loss could prove costly to a team harboring hopes of winning its first NBA championship.Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points against his former team. Jalen Williams added 20 points for the Thunder.George had a highlight dunk in the third, rotating 360 degrees before slamming the ball in the hoop as the crowd cheered.Kawhi Leonard and George stepped up in the second half after shooting a combined 5 of 16 in the first half, but it wasn’t enough. Leonard had 21 points.T...

All-Stars of Team USA outmatched, outpitched in WBC final

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:48 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — As Trea Turner rounded the bases Tuesday night after hitting his fifth home run of the World Baseball Classic, the “M-V-P!” chants roared throughout loanDepot park.Turner’s tournament outing — tied for the most in a single WBC, with a grand slam — was a reminder of how just how stacked this United States team was.But on a night when stars across the South Florida sports teams converged in the Miami Marlins’ home ballpark — Bam Adebayo and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, Jazz Chisolm Jr. of the Marlins and Xavien Howard and Jevon Holland of the Dolphins, to name a few — the stars on Team USA couldn’t deliver a victory in the championship game.It was only fitting that the matchup ended with a thrilling duel between two of the sport’s best players, Los Angeles Angels teammates Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. And Ohtani closed out it, sending the United States home with a strikeout.“It’s so difficult to hold our lineup to two runs,” said Team USA ...