“I’m not gonna sit around and let somebody hold Social Security and Medicare hostage on this thing,” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden told a Salem crowd regarding the approaching national debt ceiling.
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UPDATE: Police find teen reported missing from Salem
The Salem Police Department on Tuesday afternoon asked for the public’s help in finding a missing 17-year-old named Warren.
YOUR GOVERNMENT: Marion County commissioners consider data protection software
On Wednesday, commissioners will consider spending $846,000 on software that would help protect sensitive information from a data breach, such as health records and identities of county employees and citizens.
30 cats killed in fire at Silverton rescue
The home that houses Silverton Cat Rescue, which was occupied at the time of the fire, was a total loss. The organization typically takes in cats from Silverton and the Salem area.
How Salemites can testify during the 2023 legislative session
People can sign up online to provide testimony for a bill as soon as it is scheduled for a public hearing. Paper sign-up sheets won’t be available at the Capitol as they were for pre-pandemic sessions.
Silverton man killed in crash on Highway 214 Wednesday
Mitchell Daniel Kuenzi, 23, was declared dead at the scene of the crash near Northeast Downs Road Wednesday morning, according to the Oregon State Police.
Woman sues Oregon Youth Authority, alleging teen on parole shot her in 2021
The lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges state officials knew Gerardo Trujillo-Torres, now 18, had assaulted others and was involved in a gang when they paroled him. He is now charged with killing one person and seriously injuring another in a Salem shooting.
Man sentenced to 25 years for driving drunk, killing 4 in Salem homeless camp
“I have no doubt the thought has come to your mind that because these people were homeless, they were less human. You could not be more wrong,” a relative of one of the victims told Enrique Rodriguez, Jr. at his sentencing Wednesday.
YOUR GOVERNMENT: Marion County commissioners consider addiction treatment funding
Commissioners on Wednesday will also consider two contracts, each projected to cost over $2 million, for repairing the wildfire-damaged street on Southeast North Fork Road and rebuilding part of Hollywood Drive.
What Salem-area legislators hope to accomplish in 2023
From bridge repairs to affordable housing development, here’s what eleven legislators representing Marion and Polk have planned for the long session.
