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11-06-2024 6:37 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Americans continue to struggle under high rents, while up to 223,0000 affordable housing units could disappear across the U.S. in the next five years alone. Units built with the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which gave developers tax credits in exchange for keeping rents low, typically only need to be kept affordable for a minimum of 30 years. The wave of construction in the 1990s means those deadlines are arriving now, threatening to eliminate affordable housing when Americans need it most. Local governments and nonprofits who own the buildings can keep them affordable. But some renters will face huge rent increases, even eviction
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Harris is often asked questions about her Black identity. She has responded by saying how it relates to her sense of self. “I’m really clear about who I am, and if anybody else is not, they need to go through their own therapy.”
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(Photo: United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. (Photo: ffice of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan)
Ultimately, Walz positioned himself as a champion of middle-class families, touting healthcare and affordable housing policies. At the same time, Vance remained firmly aligned with Trump, repeatedly defending the former president’s record and platform.
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Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the ACLU is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.”
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An attorney for the last two known survivors of the massacre called the announcement a “joyous occasion.”
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The Democrat approved the measure on California Native American Day. It comes after Newsom issued a formal apology in 2019 for the state’s violence against and mistreatment of Native Americans.
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“For too long, millions of Americans have faced the impossible choice of paying for their prescription drugs or being able to afford other basic needs,” Biden said. “While Big Pharma made record profits, Americans footed the bill for the industry’s price hikes. Not anymore.”
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In Las Vegas, she talked about her middle class background and compared it to Trump's “silver platter” pedigree that nonetheless produced six bankruptcies. Harris also moved into what Trump considers his terrain — immigration — with a Friday visit to the border town of Douglas, Arizona
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Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz have spent two months going after each other and the presidential candidates. Tuesday's vice presidential debate might not be as high stakes as the Sept.10 debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. But it offers their running mates a fresh opportunity to introduce themselves, vouch for their bosses and show their mettle as attack dogs. It will be the biggest television and online audience either No. 2 will see before Election Day
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Darryl George (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
George is asking a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order that would prevent district officials from further punishing him for not cutting his hair and allow him to return.
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