Category Government
Road work underway around Oregon – a look by the numbers
SALEM — Summertime — and the paving’s easy. The Oregon Department of Transportation is embarking on dozens of projects to fix up roads and other transportation infrastructure across the state this summer. Paving work tends to ramp up in the summer, because workers need certain…
Raquel Moore-Green picked as next state representative, succeeding Denyc Boles
Raquel Moore-Green has been picked to become the next state representative of southeast Salem and portions of western Marion County. The Marion County Board of Commissioners chose Moore-Green on Tuesday morning to succeed Rep. Denyc Boles, who last month was named to take over the…
Oregon to get $2.8 million settlement over Equifax data breach
SALEM — Oregon will receive $2.8 million as part of a settlement with the credit monitor Equifax after an enormous 2017 data breach affected nearly 1.8 million Oregonians. The settlement, announced Monday, was between Equifax and 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.…
Gun control advocates move to get storage law on the ballot
SALEM — Advocates are reviving efforts to require Oregon gun owners to securely store their guns. Supporters filed an initiative petition Thursday, July 18, to bring the issue to voters again in November 2020 if the Legislature fails to pass similar legislation next year. The…
Homecare workers hold protest outside of DHS over late pay
Homecare workers represented by SEIU 503 march into the Department of Human Services building to protest getting paid late. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) Workers hired by the state to give in-home care for some of Oregon’s most vulnerable say the Oregon Department of Human Services is…
Telemedicine connects rural Oregonians to abortion care
SALEM — Telemedicine has provided a new avenue for abortion access for Oregonians, utilized by about 50 patients in its first year. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is part of a trial by Gynuity Health Projects that is allowing some patients in Oregon, Washington and several…
From mushrooms to pension reform: Here’s what could be on your 2020 ballot
SALEM — Roughly 30 measures are vying for a spot on your ballot in 2020. Some are measures that state lawmakers voted to refer to Oregonians. Others have been proposed by citizens to reconsider or amend state laws. Each, though, raises a hot-button issue. They…
Business group withdraws effort to refer Student Success Act to voters
Oregon educators rally at the Capitol on May 8, 2019 in support of the Student Success Act. SALEM — An Oregon trade group has announced that it will no longer push to put a landmark business tax to raise money for the state’s public schools…
Public employee union lands big wage increases in new contract
An SEIU supporter participates in a political rally. (Courtesy of SEIU 503) State employees got a win unlike anything they have seen since before the recession with the legislature dedicating $200 million to pay increases. That money allowed Service Employees International Union Local 503 to…