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Local

• Big salaries escape school cuts: Groups say PPS budget ax is hitting the wrong positions By Jennifer Anderson

Portland Public Schools is a land of many chiefs.

• Parents, students and teachers plead for reprieve from North Portland's Humboldt, Tubman schools closure By Cornelius Swart

“I look around here and all I see are broken hearts.”

• Bake Sale and Budget Cuts by Nathan Gilles

“For every dollar we save now,” said Labors’ Local 483’s Kevin Stampflee, “we lose ten dollars down the road when things are worse. So do we wait for it to crumple, or do we fix it now?”

• City of Portland unveils grand goals for PSU growth By Katrina Petrovich

Proposed urban-renewal area could boost university development by $100 million

• A Corporate Budget or a People’s Budget? By Shamus Cooke

How are government budgets created, and in whose interests?

National

• Rejecting ‘Buffett Rule,’ House Passes Business Tax Cut By JONATHAN WEISMAN

Republicans are in talks about pushing a bill to extend the Bush-era tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 before the November election, and ahead of their expiration in January.

• Senate Republicans Block Debate On Buffett Rule DAVID WELNA

The Buffett Rule bill would "restore the confidence of middle-class Americans in our tax system by assuring that those at the very top of the income spectrum aren't paying lower rates than regular families do."

• The Arrest of George Zimmerman by MARK VORPAHL

Mass Action Gets Results

• Read the Tax Returns From Karl Rove’s ‘Dark Money’ Group (Donors Still a Mystery) by Kim Barker

There are no donor names, no clues as to whether they are individuals, companies or trade groups, and no hint as to whether there are repeated donors from year to year.