Salem has a relatively small federal workforce, with about 450 people employed by the federal government, according to regional state economist Pat O'Connor.
Other Salem-area federal employees include about 121 staffers at the Veterans Affairs clinic, and a handful of jobs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Land Management.
If you're a federal employee in the Salem area, we'd like to hear your thoughts on the offer and the rapid restructuring of the federal workforce underway. We can keep your information confidential if needed. Reach out to Managing Editor Rachel Alexander at [email protected].
Meantime, hundreds of people gathered by the Oregon Capitol to protest Trump administration policies. We have more on that event below.
Here's some of today's news. Catch all of our reports anytime on our website.
Several hundred protesters from around the Willamette Valley and beyond converged near the Oregon Capitol building Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies, part of a national…
A jury on Wednesday found Lincoln Smith drove recklessly but was not under the influence of drugs when he plowed his semi-truck into a van carrying 11 farmworkers on the…
A Polk County grand jury has indicted Micah Blacksmith on a single charge alleging she left the scene of a collision on Northwest Murlark Avenue. She is not charged with…
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