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#local journalism

The director of Portland State University's Women's Resource Center was terminated last spring, without being given a cause. The former director, Nic Francisco-Kaho'onei, believes their Palestinian activism played a role in their firing, which had a ripple effect throughout the campus community. While PSU says it values the Women's Resource Center (and maintains it did not retaliate against Francisco-Kaho'onei), the firing came at a troubled time for the university,

The San Francisco Police Department found a missing 10-year-old boy who had gone missing on Monday morning in the Forest Hill neighborhood. The department said Julian Davis was captured on surveillance footage "wearing red plaid pajamas" at 6:15 a.m. on Monday near Vasquez and Woodside avenues. He was located as of 12:39 p.m., the department posted on social media. MISSING JUVENILE LOCATED: Julian Davis has been found. Thank you to those who assisted in spreading our alert. pic.twitter.com/ajQOq6wFOA- San Francisco Police (@SFPD) November 10, 2025

Urbana, Ohio, is a small city of 11,000, where nearly three out of four voters went for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there. In Paper Girl, she returns to Urbana-a place beset by economic decline, dwindling public resources, failing schools, and the disappearance of local journalism.

For immigrant families like hers, Spanish-language news is not simply news translated from English; it's news tailored to their experience, identity, interests and background, explained Garcia, a professor at Cal State Monterey Bay. It doesn't take an expert in bilingual and bicultural education like Garcia to understand what it means for communities when these channels suddenly go dark. KMUV 23, a Telemundo affiliate, was the Central California Coast's only local, Spanish-language television news station.

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Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell's Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais's David Brent before him was a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original's cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart.

GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! 👋 Expect another day of extreme "hot" with temps expected to hit 95 degrees before "cooling down" (HAHAHAHAHAAAA!) on Tuesday with a high of 92. The rest of the week is predicted to be much more reasonable, with the temps varying between the low-80s and mid-70s, but don't pack away those thongs just yet! Instead? Let's pack away some NEWS.

SB 79, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, mandates that six- to seven-story residential buildings be built within a half-mile radius of any qualifying transit stops, which include some bus stops. This is beyond what has already been mandated along linear corridors and with the housing elements plan. A single-family home neighborhood currently has about eight houses per acre. These will be near developments that cannot be stopped if this bill passes.

New York is home to fabulous wealth but also the highest rate of wealth inequality, characterized by a stark contrast between diversity and segregation.