Beaverton is a city in Washington County,in the U.S. state of Oregon with a small portion bordering Portland in the Tualatin Valley. The city is among the main cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. Its population was 97,494 at the 2020 census,making it the second most populous city in the county and the seventh most populous city in Oregon. Beaverton is an economic center for Washington County along with neighboring Hillsboro.
Hillsboro is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area,the city hosts many high-technology companies,such as Intel,locally known as the Silicon Forest. The population was 106,447 at the 2020 census,making Hillsboro the 5th most populous city in Oregon.
The Beaverton School District is a school district in and around Beaverton,Oregon,United States. It serves students throughout Beaverton,Hillsboro,Aloha,and unincorporated neighborhoods of Portland,OR. The Beaverton Elementary School District 48 was established in 1876,with other elementary districts later merged into the district. The elementary district was later merged with the high school district (10J) to create a unified school district. It is the third-largest school district in the state,with an enrollment of 39,180 students as of 2022. For the 2022–2023 school year,the district had a total budget of $622.8 million.
John Albert Kitzhaber is an American former politician and physician who served as governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015,shortly after beginning his fourth term,Kitzhaber resigned from office and was replaced by Secretary of State Kate Brown. A member of the Democratic Party,Kitzhaber was the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
KGW is a television station in Portland,Oregon,United States,affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Jefferson Street in southwestern Portland,and its transmitter is located in the city's Sylvan-Highlands section. KGW also served as the Portland bureau for co-owned regional news channel Northwest Cable News before it shut down on January 6,2017.
Samuel Francis Adams is an American politician in Portland,Oregon. Adams was mayor of Portland from 2009 to 2012 and previously served on the Portland City Council. Adams was the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city.
Karl Mozeleski,known by his stage name Karl Logan,is an American musician,best known as the former guitarist for heavy metal band Manowar from 1994 to 2018. In 2022 he was convicted of possession of child pornography.
Dan Saltzman is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a commissioner on the City Council of Portland in Portland,Oregon,from 1999 through the end of 2018. As of 2017,he had served longer on the Council than any other person since 1969.
Pioneer Pacific College was a private for-profit college with its main campus in Beaverton,Oregon. Founded in 1981,it primarily offered Associate degrees and certificate programs.
Oregon Ballot Measure 57 (2008) or Senate Bill (SB) 1087 was a legislatively referred state statute that increased term of imprisonment for persons convicted of specified drug and property crimes under certain circumstances. The measure enacted law which prohibits courts from imposing less than a presumptive sentence for persons convicted of specified drug and property crimes under certain circumstances,and requires the Department of Corrections to provide treatment to certain offenders and to administer grant program to provide supplemental funding to local governments for certain purposes.
Legal frameworks around fictional pornography depicting minors vary depending on country and nature of the material involved. Laws against production,distribution and consumption of child pornography generally separate images into three categories:real,pseudo,and virtual. Pseudo-photographic child pornography is produced by digitally manipulating non-sexual images of real minors to make pornographic material. Virtual child pornography depicts purely fictional characters. "Fictional pornography depicting minors",as covered in this article,includes these latter two categories,whose legalities vary by jurisdiction,and often differ with each other and with the legality of real child pornography.
Pioneer Courthouse Square,also known as Portland's living room,is a public space occupying a full 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) city block in the center of downtown Portland,Oregon,United States. Opened in 1984,the square is bounded by Southwest Morrison Street on the north,Southwest 6th Avenue on the east,Southwest Yamhill Street on the south,and Southwest Broadway on the west.
Edward Tevis Wheeler is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Portland,Oregon since 2017. He was Oregon State Treasurer from 2010 to 2016.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Elkton is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates near Elkton,Ohio. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses low and minimum-security male inmates.
The Federal Correctional Complex,Petersburg is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Petersburg,Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The 2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 8,2016,to elect the Governor of Oregon,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives,other gubernatorial elections and various state and local elections.
On Tuesday,May 17,2016,an election was held in Portland,Oregon,to elect the mayor. Ted Wheeler was elected after garnering 54% of the primary vote. Incumbent mayor Charlie Hales did not seek a second term.
Beaverton Bakery was a bakery in Beaverton,Oregon,United States. The business was started by Charles Yeager in 1925. The business was well known locally for their wedding cakes and donuts along with a variety of other baked goods. It closed in 2018,after operating for 93 years.
Joshua Adam Schulte is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published the documents as Vault 7,which The New York Times called "the largest loss of classified documents in the agency's history and a huge embarrassment for C.I.A. officials." After his conviction,the Department of Justice called it "one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history."
Lacey Beaty is an American politician,combat veteran,and the current mayor of Beaverton,Oregon. She took office in 2021 as the first female and youngest mayor in Beaverton history,after serving six years as city councilor. Before entering politics,Beaty served five years of active duty in the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army as a radiology specialist and combat medic during the Iraq War. She has also worked in public health,overseeing school-based health centers. Beaty has identified the homelessness crisis and the welfare of veterans as priority issues for her administration.
