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The Oregonian, March 25, 1999. Not available elsewhere online. It was late on a Thursday night, May 1, two years ago. The 31-year-old man walked into Washington Park carrying two heavy containers of gasoline. He asked a man for his help getting up a hill. The man saw the gasoline containers and said no. The […]
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By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, October 10, 1998. Not available elsewhere online. Ideas are most stirring when they serve people. A Washington County conference this week on “Violence and Mental Disorders” makes the point. Attendees’ eyes are drawn to a photo in the program of a serene young woman and to […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, July 4, 1998. Not available elsewhere online. Oregonians with mental illnesses aren’t confused. They see clearly that the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 has led irrationally to lower benefits. The federal laws regulations went into effect Jan. 1. They require group health plans that cover […]
From the Columbian, March 19, 1998 Four ex-employees and two parents allege that high-risk students of a private academy were deprived of sleep, subjected to obscenity-laced tirades and forced to work in near-freezing temperatures overnight. Officials of the Mount Bachelor Academy, which touts its highly structured environment for troubled teen-agers, deny the accusations. But the […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, November 25, 1997. Not available elsewhere online. Cooperation helps communities thrive but gets fewer headlines than controversy. The goodwill, grit and ingenuity of public officials, nonprofit agencies, foundations, companies, unions and citizen volunteers have turned eyesores here into assets. Item: The Housing Authority of Portland has […]
From The Oregonian, December 6, 1996 – not elsewhere online For 18 years, Metro Crisis Line workers have helped the depressed, the suicidal, the sleepless. But money problems will force the state’s largest and oldest crisis line to close in mid-January, and a new crisis line will take its place. The Metro Crisis Line relied […]
By Steve Duin & published in The Oregonian, June 25, 1995 Rarely does a single question provide as much heat and light as the one Chuck Currie stuck in the City Council’s ear on Wednesday. The need to replace the dear, departing Recovery Inn was up for debate at City Hall. Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury had […]
From the Oregonian, March 11, 1995 Tipper Gore‘s visit to Portland’s shelter system Friday left her with the impression many have when they visit here: It’s a national model for dealing with homelessness. Her concern, she said, is keeping it that way. “I was very impressed with what I saw today and more with what […]
From the Oregonian, October 13, 1994 In his mind’s eye, as he gazes at the gray grime of Third and Flanders in Old Town, Bruce Wong sees the garden as clearly as if it were already there. Water-hewn rocks, unique and ornate, rim a rippleless pond. From one end rises a small building, its rooms […]
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