KOIN News, April 29, 2014 The executive director of Central City Concern (CCC) admitted Tuesday more could have been done to protect personal information that a former employee is now accused of stealing as part of a scheme to file fake tax returns. “I think we should have done more at that point,” said CCC […]
Presented without comment. Hydro-therapy room, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver Colorado. Read – Dr. Dean Brooks dies at 96; key figure in filming ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’, from the Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2011
The Portland Mercury, April 23, 2014 “WE TACKLED HIM.” The words are indistinct—sort of blurred at the edges, bleeding into one another. They are surrounded by other hazy noises, and followed by the laughter of jail deputies engaging in a bit of collegial bonhomie on a September evening. But less than an hour later, the […]
Central City Concern, April 25, 2014 Today, Bing Sheldon received one of Portland’s highest honors – Portland First Citizen, hosted by the Portland Metro Area Realtors Association. Bing was a founding board member of Central City Concern and served our agency from 1978 to 2013 – an unheard of 35 years on a nonprofit organization board. […]
An editorial from the Albany Democrat-Herald, April 24, 2014 Despite the obvious good news contained in the budget proposal for Albany schools, the news actually gets better when you peer into some of the details. Administrators with the Greater Albany Public Schools district released the first draft of their budget proposal this week. The big […]
From Salem Statesman Journal, April 24, 2014 The Oregon State Medical Examiner has released 2013 statistics for drug-related deaths, finding that methamphetamine deaths are on the rise statewide. But other drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have declined. More than 200 people died in Oregon in 2013 due to drugs, nearly the same number of deaths […]
From The Lund Report, April 24, 2014 Mary Monnat, president and CEO of LifeWorks NW, isn’t known as a quitter. In her 30-plus years at LifeWorks NW, the mental health and addiction prevention and treatment organization has grown from 50 staff members treating a few thousand clients per year to a tri-county operation with over […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, April 21, 2014 An anti-civil rights bill that purports to fix the “broken mental health system” but would actually gut that system has picked up a new and formidable opponent. Psych Central — and the more than 350,000 Americans it represents – last week came out strongly against […]
From the Portland Tribune, April 17, 2014 When Greg Stone decided to start a scholarship fund for teens suffering from addiction, he didn’t do the obvious — give grants to teens who were recovering alcoholics or drug addicts. Instead Stone decided the fund would provide college money for teens growing up with parents or guardians […]
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