Last week as Hillsboro struggled over the day to day issues of economic development, data centers, and City Council metldowns, a bright star from its ranks had his eyes on a brighter future. Someone who represented the best of us and of what humans aspire to be. He held the promise of a community so desperately needing young people like him to lead us into an uncertain future. But in an instant Connor Navarro was ripped from our ranks. A careless driver speeding through a very dangerous intersection at NE Century and Baseline struck him and instantly cancelled his incredible potential. In the minutes, hours, and days that have followed, his life and the fallout of his death have crashed down upon his family and everyone he ever came into contact with. His loss so great that is must be celebrated, remembered, and honored.
“He should have had decades ahead of him,” Nastassia Betcher wrote on GoFundMe. “Instead, everything he had worked so hard for was taken away in a single, preventable moment.”
In Memory of Connor Navarro
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The Hillsboro Herald: A Note to Our Readers on Corporate Power & Transparency
The Hillsboro Herald is a formally organized LLC under Oregon law. Over the past six years, we have produced nearly 1,000 original news stories. We are a paying member in good standing of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Online News Association (ONA). Syndicated and amplified via Google News and Newsbreak, our reporting is closing in on 10 million reads.
Despite these undisputed facts, the Hillsboro City Attorney and City Manager continue to block the Herald from attending Executive Sessions, hiding behind the claim that we are “not a news source.”
The City’s Official Stance:“The City has considered your request to attend executive sessions as a representative of the news media… [A] representative of the news media is a news gatherer who has a formal affiliation with an institutional news medium… We do not believe that the Hillsboro Herald currently meets this standard.” The City claims a true news medium must possess attributes like a large paid staff and a specific corporate advertising structure…