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    Curtain goes up at RHS after 10 years
    By Anna Koehn

    As the new school year begins at Roosevelt High School, the Arts Communication and Technology school (ACT) is already busy planning their spring theatre production of Oklahoma! They have also just finished their first production of a one-act comedy, This Is a Test, and have hosted Westview High School at an improvisation competition as a pre-game event before the first home football game.

    Although this may sound like a typical high school performing arts program, the success of these events is of great importance to Roosevelt High — this is the first time in 10 years that the school has had a theatre program.

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    Realignment of North Precinct clunky but effective By Derek Long
    “The million dollar question is, is it working? We don’t live in a perfect world, but it is working. It can be clunky, but the community is still getting the service they were getting before.” That’s how Commander Jim Ferraris describes the North Portland Police Precinct since a restructuring went into effect this July. The highly contentious issue had stirred community debate last February among North Portland residents worried about the possibility of losing police coverage. According to Ferraris, however, the new system has actually been an improvement on some levels. click here to view story

     


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    Interstate V Chavez: Late Breaking News

    The Sentinel will have video blog report at 4:30 pm Thursday Nov 15th, and will be blogging live from the council chambers starting at 2pm.
    The Latest news on the Interstate/Chavez Debate go to your Bullpen Blog.



    Chavez controversy coast to coast

    Street renaming fight reflects national struggles

    By Vanessa Nix, Will Crow,
    Cornelius Swart




    For those following the Interstate/Chavez renaming process, the public controversy, racial tension, breakdown in civil dialogue and emotional debate may seem like an extraordinary exception to Portland’s usually staid political culture of compromise and consensus-building. But according to academics interviewed by the Sentinel, this kind of conflict is par for the course when cities and towns rename their streets for minority leaders.

    “What is happening in Portland is not the exception but sort of the rule,” said Eastern Carolina University Associate Professor Derek Alderman, an authority in the field of commemorative renaming. “It [renaming] tends to attract a very emotional and politically charged controversy.”

    The North Portland dilemma escalated during October. Two contentious public meetings to collect “testimony” on the name change left the Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard Committee and North Portland’s name-change opponents further polarized. At an Oct. 25 City Council hearing, Mayor Tom Potter walked out when three other commissioners sought to find another solution. At press time, both the renaming and the attempt at compromise were on the council’s November docket, while the Latino Network was calling on Portland’s people of color to thwart attempts at compromise and support the renaming of Interstate.

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    Posted November 07, 2007

    Check Out Julie Sabatier's 'DIY Portland'


    Sentinel reporter Julie Sabatier hosts
    "DIY, Portland," is now on every third
    Thursday of the month at 10:00AM
    on KBOO Community Radio 90.7FM in
    Portland highlighting revolutionary
    do-it-yourself projects going on around
    town. You can download and podcast
    her shows here. DIY Podcast

    Julie is also a correspondent for Free
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