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Donor who has flown on Air Force One and visited White House won't avoid facing child sex abuse charges BY: Brent Scher July 20, 2015 12:14 pm A proposed civil settlement by gay activist and Obama bundler Terry Bean that would have cleared Bean of criminal charges for an alleged sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy was rejected by a Eugene, Ore., judge, according to Oregon Live. Bean, who raised over $1 million for President Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns, was arrested last November and charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy and one count of third-degree sex abuse. The...

The second trial of Oregon standoff defendants will begin as scheduled on Feb. 14, and the judge plans to summon 1,000 prospective jurors from across the state. U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown on Wednesday dismissed a motion by prosecutors to delay the trial for two months, saying they failed to give her a good reason. "We're going forward with trial, with jury selection to begin Feb. 14," Brown said, "unless good cause arises." All seven defendants were in court with their attorneys, filling the same chairs in Courtroom 9A that Ammon Bundy and six other co-defendants sat in before...

President Elect Donald Trump looks like he's chosen Spokane's own U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as his Secretary of the Interior. And already, we've seen a lot of dramatic statements casting her as a drill-happy pillager of public lands who spells doom for rivers and forests..... 1) She's pretty much a generic Republican. McMorris Rodgers isn't someone like Raul Labrador, prone to publicly challenge the party's conventional wisdom. Instead, with the possible exception of her caution of military action in Syria, she's been a party-line Republican, more in the Rep. Eric Cantor mode... So, is she an extremist? That depends...

SALEM, Ore. - Seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on Oregon shores, researchers say. Seawater samples from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach indicate radiation from the nuclear disaster but at extremely low levels not harmful to humans or the environment. Citing the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Statesman Journal newspaper reports the samples were taken last winter and later analyzed

Portland City Council approved the controversial plan 3-1 Wednesday, making a statement about growing income disparity in the United States while giving Commissioner Steve Novick a legacy piece in his final weeks in City Hall. The tax targets publicly traded companies whose chief executives report salaries at least 100 times higher than the salary of a median worker.

In a move that's drawn international headlines, Portland will launch a first-of-its-kind tax on public companies that pay their chief executives vastly more than they pay an average worker. Portland City Council approved the controversial plan 3-1 Wednesday, making a statement about growing income disparity in the United States while giving Commissioner Steve Novick a legacy piece in his final weeks in City Hall. The tax targets publicly traded companies whose chief executives report salaries at least 100 times higher than the salary of a median worker. Officials expect to raise $2.5 million a year starting in January 2017, with...

A federal appeals court Monday upheld the conviction of Mohamed Osman Mohamud for attempting to detonate a bomb during downtown Portland's holiday tree-lighting ceremony, rejecting his argument that federal authorities had entrapped him. While the three-member panel of judges in the 9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the government's conduct was "quite aggressive at times,'' they concluded it fell short of a due process violation, according to the 50-page ruling. "The complete lack of reluctance on Mohamud's part to participate in the bombing - indeed his immediate zeal to see it through - separates this case from those in...

The city council in Portland, Ore., is set to consider a measure that would tax a company more if the CEO's pay is deemed too high compared to employees' salaries. It is a measure that may be too far-out right now even for famously liberal Portland, but it represents a way to use new CEO pay disclosure rules that advocates hope, and opponents fear, could be taken up by other cities or states. . . . Detractors are quick to point out potential flaws, especially that the policy would incentivize companies to leave Portland. "It's really easy to cross the...

A school district in Oregon is joining many others around the country in a controversial decision to refrain from using religious-themed decorations during the holidays, including images like Santa Claus. KATU reports Santa Claus decorations are no longer welcome in Hillsboro Schools, outside Portland. The district sent this memo to staff: "You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to the diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus."

The mayor of Dallas uses the word “bankruptcy,” and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal swoop in to report on the city’s imminent doom. The mayor of Houston holds a press conference to declare the pension problem solved, and folks just go along with it. The truth is that the two cities are in equally dreadful trouble, headed for bankruptcy, as are Fort Worth and El Paso, thanks to delusional forecasting, ludicrous system design, and meddlesome union-funded lawmakers from across the state who’ve stripped big-city voters of their right to govern their own finances. How mismanaged are these...

She and a friend would run sessions teaching room painting, chicken roasting, savings accounts, engine maintenance. I rolled my eyes (I’d prefer “engaged thoughtfully”), but lo, it’s happened. In Portland, a teacher and psychotherapist have opened The Adulting School. Adulting. It was nominated as the word of the year by the American Dialect Society, a word coined by a generation that has been shielded from the worst of growing up by living in their parents’ homes, and shut out of the best of it by a society that forces them to stay there. Reminiscent of Alan Partridge’s seminal boast that...

Democratic Party fundraiser and gay activist Terry Bean made sex-abuse allegations with a 17-year-old boy disappear on Tuesday thanks to a $200,000 settlement offer. http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/200000-offer-ends-gay-democrats-child-sex-charges/

Arrest records, court files, social media accounts and voting records -- as well as interviews with at least a dozen protesters -- show: •The vast majority are Democrats, followed by those who chose not to affiliate with any party at all. One is a registered Republican. •Their average age is 26. •Three of every four are men. •Many have jobs, among them: A forklift operator, a Powell's Book store clerk, a MOD Pizza worker, a Starbucks barista, a wooden-bicycle builder, a sexual assault victim's advocate, a furniture maker, a screenwriter, a musician. •At least a dozen are homeless.

Street preaching (and tolerant liberal reactions /s) during the Portland protest and riots. Music until about the 4 minute mark. 19:35

A prominent 66-year-old Portland man was arrested by sex crimes detectives on Nov. 19 in connection with a 2013 incident involving a juvenile male. His attorney claims he is the victim of an extortion plot.

A defense lawyer Friday urged a federal judge to hold a hearing that his client Ryan Payne can attend in the fight to withdraw his guilty plea in the Malheur National Wildlife occupation case. Payne doesn't want to waive his right to go to the hearing even if it's put off until after his prosecution in Nevada in the 2014 Cliven Bundy ranch standoff. Payne's lawyer Richard Federico, reiterated that his client's guilty plea to the Oregon federal conspiracy charge rested upon the resolution of both the Oregpon and Nevada cases. Prosecutors hace argued that Payne's guilty plea in the...

From: inform-c07-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:inform-c07-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Chastain, Donna Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 2:56 PM To: Inform-C06 (Classified); Inform-C07 (Professional Faculty); Inform-C08 (Instructors, Research Associates/Assistants); Inform-C09 (Professors, Associate/Assistant Professors) Subject: [Inform-c07] Employee Assistance Session - Friday, November 18th OSU Community, In support of Oregon State University employees that are experiencing concerns, emotions and stress following the national elections, we have scheduled an Employee Assistance session co-facilitated by Cascade Centers (EAP) and Larry Roper, interim director of the School of Language, Culture and Society. This session is a facilitated conversation about concerns and emotions and focuses on constructive and healthy ways...

Anti-Trump protesters in Portland, Ore. attacked a vehicle driven by a young woman who claimed she was attempting to pass on a road blocked by demonstrators due to a personal emergency.Local press covering the protest filmed the confrontation.Protesters claim the altercation began when a motorist attempted to circumvent a Trump protest due to a personal emergency. The Daily Caller News Foundation is not able to confirm the nature of the alleged emergency. Demonstrators then claimed she attempted to run over one of the protesters with her car.“I can’t agree with them,” the reporter covering the protests said. “I was out...

An Oregon bureaucrat who waged political jihad against the owners of a Christian bakery was given the heave-ho by voters. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian was defeated by Republican Dennis Richardson in his bid to be Secretary of State. It's the first time a Republican has been elected to a statewide office in Oregon since 2002. So consider this – Avakian was too liberal for what is arguably one of the most liberal states in the country. Avakian, a passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA crowd, was thrust into the national spotlight when he declared war on a Christian bakery in 2013.

More than 70 percent of the 112 anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland didn’t vote in Oregon, according to state election records. The other approximately 30 percent did cast a ballot in Oregon or in another state. At least seventy-nine demonstrators either didn’t turn in a ballot or weren’t registered to vote in the state. KGW compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police Bureau during recent protests. Those names and ages, provided by police, were then compared to state voter logs by Multnomah County Elections officials. Records show 39 of the protesters arrested were registered in...