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Portland Business News
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Optum agrees to Oregon lawmakers' demands not to enforce noncompete agreements
A group of eight lawmakers last month asked the UnitedHealth not to enforce restrictive contract language, after constituents said a Eugene clinic and its owners "abandoned them."
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Portland lands Daimler's $40M electric truck engineering expansion and more
Daimler Truck North America will grow its presence on Swan Island in Portland.
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Columbian Newspaper
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Stock market today: Wall Street coasts to the finish line of another winning week
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks coasted to the close of another winning week on Friday. |
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Ransomware attack: Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth hit in December
The Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth, the state agency that operates Vancouver’s Washington School for the Deaf, alerted the public this week that it has been the victim of a ransomware attack. |
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Liam and Olivia are still the most popular US baby names, and Mateo makes his debut on the list
WASHINGTON — Liam and Olivia have for a fifth year together topped the list of baby names for brand new boys and girls born in the U.S. in 2023. And Mateo joins the top 10 baby names list for the first time. |
Washington State News
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Gray wolves see 15 years of consecutive population growth in WA
The State of Washington is proposing to downgrade gray wolves from "endangered" to "sensitive" status as a species. |
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WCC adds Grand Canyon, Seattle
(Photo credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)
Grand Canyon and Seattle are leaving the Western Athletic Conference for the West Coast Conference, effective July 2025.
The nine current conference members are private, faith-based universities. Seattle is a Jesuit university, and Grand Canyon, located in Phoenix, is a Christian institution.
A strong selling point for WCC commissioner Stu Jackson was Grand Canyon's basketball
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The Chronicle - Centralia
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Roy man dies in state Route 7 crash Friday morning
A Roy man died in a multi-vehicle car crash on state Route 7 a little after 6 a.m. Friday, May 10. Robert G. Gorley, 75, Roy, was driving his Ford Expedition in the second of four lanes northbound on state Route 7, approaching 176th Street, when he struck the second vehicle, driven by Michael C. Lovitt, 60, of Roy, who was stopped. Lovitt then hit a stopped Subaru Crosstrek driven by Norman Parsons, 60, of Roy. In turn, the CrossTrek hit a fourth car driven by Christopher Bowen, 41, Tacoma. Then Gorley’s vehicle struck Bowen’s GMC and rolled, striking 71-year-old Barbara Brooks, Spanaway, who was stopped in the second lane in her Mitsubishi Outlander, and Scott Bannister, 61, Rainier, who was driving a semi with freight trailer. Gorley’s passenger, Shannon F. Gorley, 68, was injured in the crash and transported to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. None of the other drivers were injured, although the damage to some of the vehicles was significant. The northbound lanes were blocked for 3 hours, 21 minutes. Washington State Patrol is investigating. |
Seattle Times Opinion
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State politics: ‘Get off the sidelines’
I’ve always loved Washington state. I knew that I wanted to raise my own family here. As my family has grown, I have started to become aware of the vast divides that seem to be forming right under my nose. I’ve had an opinion on politics but would leave it at that, never truly getting […] |
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Israel-Hamas war: Reach out to ‘the other’
Re: “A vital voice has been left out of statements about Gaza” [April 28, Opinion]: Maxima Patashnik’s comment in Alex Fryer’s column stayed with me: “the Jewish community asks, ‘that their lived experiences and their voices be central to adopting positions.’ ” As a Jewish woman who has spent considerable time in Israel — six extended […] |
