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Boquist sues Courtney over imposing 12-hour notice to enter Capitol building
Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, on Senate floor on the final day of the 2019 legislative session. (Claire Withycombe/Oregon Capital Bureau) Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, is taking his fight against the Legislature to federal court. Boquist sued Senate President Peter Courtney, two other senators and several…
Cap and trade’s fate was sealed by dissent within Senate Democrats, not fleeing Republicans
Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, addresses a crowd at a 2019 Memorial Day event. (Christopher Keizur/The Gresham Outlook.) A retired nurse, not fleeing Oregon state senators, doomed Gov. Kate Brown’s keystone environmental policy that had been in the works for more than a decade, according…
Raquel Moore-Green sworn in as Oregon’s newest House member
Rep. Raquel Moore-Green, R-Salem, takes a seat at her House desk for the first time. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) Oregon’s newest state representative has taken office. Rep. Raquel Moore-Green, R-Salem, was sworn in Thursday by Oregon Supreme Court Justice Meagan Flynn in the Oregon House. Among…
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…