OPB’s First Look: A step toward ending the shutdown

OPB’s First Look: A step toward ending the shutdown

Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week.Good morning, Northwest.Congress last night inched closer to a deal to end the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.We start this morning’s newsletter with the latest from Washington, D.C.Also this morning, OPB education reporter Elizabeth Miller looks at Oregon’s progress toward its education goal known as 40-40-20.The Portland Thorns have reach…