By Salem Reporter
PHOTOS: Kalapuya students reconnect with lost jackets, spring artwork at drive-though event
Piper Miller, 6, picks up school materials during a drive-in event at Kalapuya Elementary on Thursday, September 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem schools are getting ready for an online start to school with drive-by events where students can return library…
Covid remains mostly flat at workplaces and care facilities while two more employers report outbreaks
An image of the coronavirus from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreaks of Covid at workplaces and long-term care facilities in the Salem area remained mostly steady with few spikes in new cases. The numbers on the…
Oregon Health Authority proposes ambitious budget
Pat Allen, Oregon Health Authority director, joins a daily standing meeting with the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems on Monday, April 20. At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Allen held two daily meetings with the group but…
Just in the time for the election, Salem City Club to hold “Informed Voter Series”
The Salem City Club holding one of its programs meant to educate the public. The civic-engagement nonprofit has moved online for its fall programming. (Courtesy/Salem City Club) With the 2020 election entering its final stretch, the Salem City Club has…
COLUMN: Numbers reveal how low-wage workers hit hardest by the pandemic
A graph of the average annual all-industry wages of several areas in Oregon. (Courtesy/Pam Ferrara) The Salem area unemployment rate came down by a bit more than a percentage point from June to July, a smaller drop than the three…
Easy solutions are few as employers and working parents prepare for online school
School hallway at Stevens Middle School (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When schools closed in March due to the Covid pandemic, Trish Straw was one of the luckier parents. A mental health associate at Marion County who serves as president of the…
Willamette University reporting few Covid cases since reopening one week ago
Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Willamette University has had one student and two…
New report shows Oregon taking conservative path to classrooms
An empty classroom at Stevens Middle School on Aug. 18, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] About 2% of school employees and 1%…
BUSINESS ROUND UP: More cash for unemployed. New restaurant. Theater closes. Future of work.
Oregon Employment Department. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) EXTRA CASH. An additional $300 a week is on its way to Oregonians collecting unemployment benefits. The Oregon Employment Department announced on Friday that its application was approved for a federal program intended to…
AROUND OREGON: OHSU drops massive coronavirus study, citing lack of minority involvement
Viviana Gourley, medical assistant at Salud Medical Center, waits between patients at the center’s COVID-19 testing area on Wednesday, April 29. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A study intended to track the coronavirus in Oregon and understand its impacts on minorities is…