Alex Baumhardt - Oregon Capital Chronicle
Alex Baumhardt has been a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media since 2017. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post. She previously worked in Iceland and Qatar and was a Fulbright scholar in Spain where she earned a master's degree in digital media. She's been a kayaking guide in Alaska, farmed on four continents and worked the night shift at several bakeries to support her reporting along the way.
Early child care shortages in Oregon costing parents jobs, survey finds
More than 40% of parents responding to a Portland State University survey said they or their partner quit, declined or changed jobs due to child care challenges.
USDA grows solar power in rural Oregon despite limited transmission, assistance
Historic funding to the Rural Energy for America program has helped fund more than three dozen rural solar projects in Oregon this year.
Oregon governor signals state funding to schools must improve following Portland teachers’ strike
Gov. Tina Kotek wants the Legislature to establish minimum teacher salaries and to create a new office focused on sharing school budget data with public.
Schools spent little of $19 million from state on substitute teacher training
Many substitute teachers across Oregon claim districts owe them for the time they spent taking mandatory training.
Climate change, drought, wildfires reduce value of private forestland in the West by billions
Oregon State University researchers said private timberland values have declined $11 billion due to the threat of drought and wildfires.
Oregon and Washington fruit packers vote to unionize fails
OREGON NEWS: Nearly 60% of the nearly 330 fruit packers of Mount Adams Fruit voted against joining a local of United Food and Commercial Workers.
Oregon’s first large-scale solar park and farm hinges on 50-year-old land use laws
A Willamette Valley farmer behind the state’s first “agrovoltaic” farm says critics cannot stop ‘an idea whose time has come.’
Hundreds of fruit packers in Washington and Oregon take union vote this week
Employees of three Mount Adams Fruit packing facilities in the Columbia River Gorge say they want safer conditions, better treatment and pay.
State lawmakers say they met Portland school demands for money as teachers strike
State Democratic senators said they gave schools $10.3 billion, a record high, during the spring session.
Oregon state officials urge Portland Public Schools, educators to reach a deal to end strike
On Tuesday, Portland teachers began striking for the first time in district history.