Secretary Gina Raimondo joined state leaders at Portland Community College.
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State employees report dire situations with paycheck problems now in fourth month
With missed paychecks and underpayments, state employees have been unable to pay rent and some have gone to food banks. State officials say they aren’t sure when the problem will be fixed.
Salinas navigates partisan divide in House to push help for Oregon agriculture
With bipartisan support, Salinas pushes for research on utility systems and wildfires and on less-costly ways for farmers to deal with pests. She describes the work in an interview with Salem Reporter.
35-year-old man dies in Salem prison after being found unresponsive in cell, state officials say
Oregon’s prison agency has provided little information about Jesse Banks’ death, and the state medical examiner has not disclosed how he died.
$120 million proposal to boost student literacy advances in Legislature
AT THE CAPITOL: The Early Literacy Success Initiative proposed at the Oregon Legislature would pay for reading tutors, teacher training and require a shift to teaching methods based on decades of research.
Amid a judicial crisis, Oregon lawmakers consider reshaping public defender system
The proposal would set up an hourly payment system and put public defenders on staff to bolster their ranks to represent the hundreds of people without legal representation
Legislature approves $7.5 million for Oregon Food Bank with Covid food benefits gone
AT THE CAPITOL: Food for the hungry becomes political as Republican legislators worry about Oregon Food Bank’s actions. The Legislature approved an emergency $7.5 million for more food supplies.
Port of Morrow allows thousands of gallons of wastewater to leak and fails to alert DEQ
Officials with the Port of Morrow, based in Boardman, said initially they didn’t know about the leak but later acknowledged they had, violating their wastewater permit
Democrats propose legislation to fix problems with Oregon’s drug decriminalization law
AT THE CAPITOL: More oversight is proposed to remedy faults in rolling out Measure 110, the drug decriminalization and addiction treatment move approved by Oregon voters.
New OSU study: Lack of humidity, not rainfall, is bigger problem for trees
Researchers at OSU are unraveling the mystery of the impact of drought on trees – making a surprising discovery.