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The bureau is asking the cash-strapped city for $2.2 million in the fiscal year starting in July to fund the new positions. Then, as those retiring leave the force the following year, the department would have money freed up to continue paying the new officers, the department said.
The problem is the city doesn’t have $2.2 million just lying around, said Stacy Jones, with the city’s financial planning division, who advised against approval. And that is only a portion of the bureau’s request for $12 million in additional city funds, separate from its proposed $156 million operating budget.
In addition to seeking new funds for hires, the police department wants $5 million for cameras to be installed in its patrol cars, $1.2 million for a contract with a nonprofit to run a detoxification center and pick-up van for those with chronic alcohol problems and $600,000 for continuing a prostitution-response team.

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Got 24 hours? TIME gives you 10 things to do in Portland
March 29, 2010, 3:54PM
The OregonianLaurelhurstAsk any native Portlander and he or she will give you a list of their favorite things to do or places to go (or not to go) in this fine city we share. Caryn Brooks of TIME has come up with 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours in Portland that make this city so great, everything from brew pubs to strip clubs (ah, Portland).
And of course no Portland list would be complete without the mention of Voodoo Doughnut (No. 8), which TIME says captures the “kooky essence of Portland.”

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Evocative, as every Mint Chicks release typically is, there is a significant level of nostalgia here. Whether singing about love and love lost as with Say Goodbye or drug-addled sex sold in the title track Bad Buzz, there’s a reflective attitude of almost harking-back, something that’s been rarely evident in a band that’s previously chosen to exist more in the now. It’s an almost romantically ironic take on the milieau of the changing modernism and naval gazing that was seen fifteen-to-twenty years ago. Pill popping prostitution and Eastern philosophy-riddled social echelons are targeted squarely – it’s a surprise that the band hasn’t based itself in the greater Manchestor or London area rather that Oregon, this release is just so time-synced with the England of that period. ABC Reharmonised falls somewhat flat as a form of needless luxury, a reforming of a primary school nursery rhyme that we’re no doubt all able to recall. But it does add to the reminiscence. The closer, You’ve Got Spray Paint In Your Third Eye, falls as near as any of the tracks on this EP do to the band’s earlier work – building with drum staccato,  but then breaking into pop riffs and then a noisy finish to end with blips.

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To learn more What: The Hillsboro City Council will hold a public hearing on its proposal for a downtown urban renewal district for $95 million. When: 7 p.m. April 20 Where: Hillsboro Civic Center Auditorium, 150 E. Main St.
But the small steps still add up to a giant leap for residents such as Kimberly Culbertson,  who lives in the Heart of Hillsboro neighborhood behind downtown. She brought nearly 50 photographs to a December meeting showing that her neighborhood lacks streetlights and storm sewers.
“My street is 90 years old,” Culbertson said later. “It’s been kept together with barbed wire and spit. Right now, it needs a little help. Urban renewal is like a hammer. It can be a tool to do good.”
Jody House,  a young mother who lives in the Southeastern part of the proposed district, told the planning commission earlier this month that without streetlights and sidewalks, her neighborhood has become a hotbed for crime, gangs, prostitution and drugs.

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An article he wrote on a Chinese girl too poor to go to school generated numerous small donations, and one gift by wire of $10,000—or so he thought. Only after Kristof promised the money to the girl’s village to educate other girls did he learn that it was a bank error. A call to the bank nudged them into making their error into a donation.
“That became a fascinating experiment of what happens when you do invest in girls’ education,” he said. “This village was truly transformed in ways that others were not.”
“Women and girls aren’t the problem” of global poverty, he said. “They are the solution.” He said that men in poor families worldwide spend 20% of their income on such things as alcohol, tobacco, and prostitution, but only 2% on education for girls.

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Portland’s ‘Playground’
March 19, 2010, 10:13AM
Oregonians have become almost blasé, or maybe it’s just mock-blasé, about the use of their state as a scenic backdrop for movies. (Mock, we say, because many actually do enjoy auditioning to be extras.)
Most famously, perhaps, Timberline Lodge doubled as a creepy hotel in “The Shining.” But now comes a documentary, “Playground,” based in Portland, that will make you wish you were just screaming at a plain, old flamboyantly campy horror movie.
“Playground,” airing at 7 tonight at the Hollywood Theatre, spotlights the dark edge of Portland, where children have no one to hold onto, turn to pimps for protection and are swept down, down, down into a descending spiral of drug-fueled prostitution.
Anyone who still wants to believe that prostitution is a victimless crime owes it to himself or herself to test such platitudes against this film.

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NORMALLY, WOMEN MAKE UP less than 10 percent of the film director population, but for four days at the Hollywood Theatre, the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Fest (POW) blows the glass roof off that anemic figure. Culled from over 450 entries, POW will showcase 44 short films and features, covering dreams of Bollywood to teenagers in post-Katrina New Orleans—and they’re 100 percent women-directed.
Thursday, March 18 kicks off the fest with an all-local showcase. Starting with Heather Harlow’s achingly beautiful short documentary, Nous Deux Encore, which is about the 13-year marriage of Maxie and Yiannis, a sun-kissed couple who are irrevocably in love. They have thousands of pictures of their time together, caught with Yiannis’ self-timed camera, before he unexpectedly died and left Maxie alone in 1984. It’s 17 minutes of evocative, bittersweet perfection and a rousing start to POW.
Friday’s highlight is Playground. Director Libby Spears’ documentary is a harrowing illumination of the sexual exploitation of children in the US. Think that child sex tourism only happens overseas? Wrong. The horrors perpetuated against children make Playground a brutally effective call-to-arms, cut with lovely animation from Yoshitomo Nara.

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… It’s going to suck because it’s a positive place for kids to come,” said Brad Tibbet, a BMX rider. “(It) keeps me out of trouble — (I) go out there, dig in the dirt — it’s harmless, you know?”
The controversy is less about bikes and dirt than about trees and houses. One neighbor said she did not mind the terrain park until riders began digging out pits closer to nearby homes.
They’re worried about large trees becoming unstable and falling on houses or cars.
But not all neighbors were concerned Wednesday.
“It’s like two guys with shovels, not a backhoe, so I doubt they’re going to knock a big tree over,” said Christy Hylton, who lives nearby.
The BMX riders fear shutting down the park could open the neighborhood to trouble.
“People going out there to drink and do drugs. (There could be) prostitutes and bum camps. That’s what it has been in the past,” Tibbet said.

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An article he wrote on a Chinese girl too poor to go to school generated numerous small donations, and one gift by wire of $10,000—or so he thought. Only after Kristof promised the money to the girl’s village to educate other girls did he learn that it was a bank error. A call to the bank nudged them into making their error into a donation.
“That became a fascinating experiment of what happens when you do invest in girls’ education,” he said. “This village was truly transformed in ways that others were not.”
“Women and girls aren’t the problem” of global poverty, he said. “They are the solution.” He said that men in poor families worldwide spend 20% of their income on such things as alcohol, tobacco, and prostitution, but only 2% on education for girls.

See the full article from “Library Journal”

The presumptive invalidity of municipal criminal laws that are inconsistent with state criminal laws was established in City of Portland v. Dollarhide, 300 Or 490, 501, 714 P2d 220 (1986). That rule was later refined in Jackson, 316 Or at 149-51. In Dollarhide, the defendant challenged a city’s mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of prostitution that was more onerous than the sentence allowed under state law. 300 Or at 493. The court held that, under the wording of Article XI, section 2, it was “left with the inescapable conclusion that the voters who adopted Article XI, section 2[,] envisioned a stricter limitation on the lawmaking power of cities in respect of criminal laws than with regard to civil or regulatory measures.” Id. at 497. The test for whether a local criminal ordinance conflicts with state law was “whether the ordinance prohibits an act which the statute permits, or permits an act which the statute prohibits.” Id. at 502 (footnote omitted). The court explicitly stated that this same test was not to be applied to the preemption of civil or administrative laws:

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