Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020. The goal was to decriminalize small amounts of street drugs and move users into treatment. That goal was ultimately not realized, and in 2024, the legislature ...

Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The measurements confirmed the first planetary ...

Transform your galvanometer into a fully functional ammeter and voltmeter with this step-by-step guide. Learn practical techniques to measure current and voltage accurately—perfect for students, ...

THE use of the rectifier photo-cell to amplify galvanometer deflections is now well known; but I have never seen any explicit mention of the fact that, with the customary set-up 1, the deflections of ...

The galvanometer deflection is noted. The earth-wire is then changed over to the second drum, and the corresponding deflection is observed. A comparison of these deflections at once indicates upon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — At a work session Tuesday morning, Multnomah County commissioners deliberated over potential changes to the county's drug deflection regime, a response to the program's lackluster ...

Tell Steve Yamamori that Multnomah County spent more than $3 million renovating an old print warehouse to turn it into a drug-crime deflection center, and his eyebrows rise. Yamamori is president of ...

An annual report released last week showed that police dropped people off at the new Multnomah County deflection center just 606 times – less than two a day – during its entire first year of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Multnomah County commissioner is proposing a suite of changes to the county's drug deflection program, just days after the board received an unflattering report on the program's ...

The man was far from his former life when Dallas Area Rapid Transit police encountered him at a bus station on Bryan Street. Once an airline employee, he developed a drinking problem and was now ...

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Oregon recriminalized drugs on Sept. 1, 2024, after the passage of House Bill 4002. Most counties set up deflection programs to refer people to treatment rather than incarceration. Data shows counties ...