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Kayla Medina, center, claps during a drug court session on Oct. 3, 2023. Medina is among those opposing plans to end Cowlitz County's mental health sales tax.
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File: Necia Cage Pankey, a frontline worker at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center, chants with the crowd at a press conference held at the Oregon AFL-CIO offices in Portland, Sept. 14, 2023. SEIU members who work at Kaiser ended their strike at 6 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, though members of another union remained on strike.
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Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023.
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In the retina, there are photoreceptors that convert light into electricity, and then neurons carry that electrical message to the brain.
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The Oregon Health Authority in Salem.
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COURTESY OF SAINT ALPHONSUS.
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