Category OREGON NEWS
Oregon’s legal psilocybin clinics draw hundreds – mostly from out of state
Psilocybin clinic owners say they’ve drawn clients from Texas to California to New York and Indiana willing to pay hotel, airfare and food costs and up to $2,000 for the experience.
Climate change, drought, wildfires reduce value of private forestland in the West by billions
Oregon State University researchers said private timberland values have declined $11 billion due to the threat of drought and wildfires.
Harney County judge declares Measure 114 on gun safety unconstitutional
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said she will appeal the ruling on the state gun regulation measure.
Crisis hotline opens for farmers, ranchers, loggers and fishermen in Oregon
The Agristress line is specialized to address the needs of farmers, ranchers, loggers and fishermen. They often work in social and geographic isolation and have the highest suicide rate of occupations in Oregon.
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley calls for ceasefire in Gaza
Sen. Jeff Merkley is the first member of Oregon’s congressional delegation to explicitly call for a ceasefire.
State and resettlement groups help Ukrainians in Oregon
The Oregon Department of Human Services will distribute $2.25 million in federal grants to help people from Ukraine.
Oregon legislators journey to Denmark with costs picked up by special interests
SPECIAL REPORT: Legislators head to Denmark to learn about energy efficiency in the company of utility lobbyists and executives. Only one took notes and another plagiarized the agenda in reporting on the trip.
Oregon and Washington fruit packers vote to unionize fails
OREGON NEWS: Nearly 60% of the nearly 330 fruit packers of Mount Adams Fruit voted against joining a local of United Food and Commercial Workers.
Oregon’s first large-scale solar park and farm hinges on 50-year-old land use laws
A Willamette Valley farmer behind the state’s first “agrovoltaic” farm says critics cannot stop ‘an idea whose time has come.’