Joey Vacca
Reporter at KOIN-TV (Portland, OR)
@KOINNews Reporter / @Cronkite_ASU Alum 🔱 / Retired Referee and Restaurant Host / Proud So-Cal Native
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1 week ago |
koin.com | Danny Peterson |Joey Vacca
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson are unveiling their plans to bolster housing development in the Rose City with a series of strategies, informed by a workgroup with multiple local stakeholders. This comes after the duo previously announced a plan to waive system development charges earlier this month.
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koin.com | Joey Vacca
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A family is suing the Bend memory care home where their mother used to live for wrongful death after the family said she was left out in the heat and died while living there last August. Melisa Finch and her family are suing Aspen Ridge in Bend – and their former management company – for personal injury and wrongful death. Finch’s mother, Celia Hess, had dementia and lived at the facility for close to two and a half years.
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yahoo.com | Joey Vacca
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A family is suing the Bend memory care home where their mother used to live for wrongful death after the family said she was left out in the heat and died while living there last August. Melisa Finch and her family are suing Aspen Ridge in Bend – and their former management company – for personal injury and wrongful death. Finch’s mother, Celia Hess, had dementia and lived at the facility for close to two and a half years.
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koin.com | Joey Vacca
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — On this Memorial Day, crowds gathered at memorials across the country, including in the nation’s capital. But Beaverton resident Latessa Loveland said taking part in an event in her community meant extra. “I’ve been to Arlington, and it’s a wonderful place to go, and it’s really solemn,” she said. “But it’s nice to see our own community come together and remember those that have served this community specifically.
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yahoo.com | Joey Vacca
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Leadership at the Oregon Food Bank met with Congresswoman Maxine Dexter to discuss the on-the-ground impacts of Republicans’ tax bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Andrea Williams, the food bank’s president, said they are already facing rising food insecurity in Oregon for a variety of reasons, and this bill would make it worse. City workers avert strike, reach tentative agreement AdvertisementAdvertisement“One of those is less benefits,” she said.
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Portland Police is investigating a shooting in the parking lot next to a preschool just before noon that left one man injured. Students are safe and there’s no current threat to the community. I’ll have updates on @KOINNews later this afternoon. https://t.co/6Iglg5BpTk
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