Homelessness newspaper Street Roots unveiled a new poster campaign asking people on Portland's streets to panhandle with respect. The newspaper plans to encourage nonprofits and businesses to hang up the poster-size photos of homeless people in Portland holding cardboard signs scrawled with polite messages. In one, a smiling fellow with neck tattoos and overalls bears the sign: "Be courteous when asking for change." The tagline on the poster reads, "Respect is a two-way street." SARAH MIRK

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South Waterfront is getting a brand-new resident: The US Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The federal government signed a 13-year lease for office space in the neighborhood, which has suffered from unsold condos and lack of employers ["We Built This City," Feature, April 29]. ICE is in charge of screening, detaining, and deporting illegal immigrants. Its current building on NW Broadway and Glisan was the site of a protest against ICE's "Secure Communities" fingerprinting program last month. ["Criminal Aliens," News, June 24] STEFAN KAMPH

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Advocates for people with mental illness are planning to sue the state over cuts to disability services funding. Disability Rights Oregon argues that the state's proposed cuts to in-home care for people with mental illness will force sick Oregonians into institutions, violating a 1999 Supreme Court ruling. The governor ordered the severe nine percent across-the-board cuts ["The Worst Cut Is the Deepest," News, July 1] to fill the state's $577 million shortfall. SM