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You’ve probably heard about fair trade coffee, or maybe even fair trade handcrafts or cotton. How about fair trade gems? Eric Braunwart, longtime owner and CEO of Vancouver, Wash.- based Columbi ...
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Amid all the usual holiday excess, one organization is pushing for people to give something more substantial this year than that ugly sweater you bought for your mom last week. Katie-Jay Scott, a loca ...
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PETA vs. the Primate Research Center: We ask the New York Times’ ethics columnist to weigh in.
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The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced last week it had infiltrated the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro for the second time in 10 years. PET ...
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The ever-popular coffee company has done it again. Last Friday, Nov. 16, Stumptown Coffeeset the record for the highest amount of money paid to a coffee farmer/producer in Bolivia, coming in at $21.20 a poun...More
The “Jena six” incident and the recent spotting of nooses around the country have once again brought the issue of racism back into the forefront. Now, with heightened racial tensions at OSU and the surrounding Corvallis community, Oregon can claim its own noose sp...More
Local do-gooder David Yandell is once again on a mission to bring the holidays to everyone. For the 11th year in a row, the Radio Cab driver is gathering as many turkeys as he can to give to families and unemployed persons who might not otherwise have a Christmas at al...More
William Rodriguez, a 9/11 survivor turned skeptic, will be in Portland this Tuesday to talk about his experience as a national hero and activist and his doubts about September 11.
Rodriguez was headed in for a regular day of work as a 19-year veteran janitor at the twin towers o...
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If you thought the Willamette Meteorite was finally old news after owner Darryl Pitt stopped the sale of the 30-pound crown piece of the 10,000-year-old rock when it failed to conjure up more than $300,000 at last Sunday's New York auction (it was expected to bring in about $1.3 million...
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A Minnesota resident is suing Concordia University after hundreds of pounds of weights fell on him in the campus gym.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Benjamin Krebbs claims he suffered neck injuries, bruising and a fractured thumb from improperly ins...
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