Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized (Salem Reporter archive) Here is what the Marion County Commission will discuss on Wednesday. • First on the docket for the the commission is whether to send $45,000 to the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments for another year. The money helps pay for a program coordinator position for the Mid-Willamette Valley[Read More…]
The Polk County Courthouse. (Courtesy of Janet Guzman/Polk County Itemizer-Observer) The Polk County Commission has a light week this week. • There will be a vote on appointing Shellie Berry to the Polk County Fair Board. There will not be further discussion before the vote. • Dean Bender, the county’s[Read More…]
Ezequiel, 23, takes a reporter on a tour of the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility grounds. While he wishes he wasn’t incarcerated, he credits Oregon Youth Authority for helping him figure out there is more to life than gangs and crime. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) Austin, 18, shows how he and other[Read More…]
Rep. Diego Hernandez, D-East Portland, sits at his desk on the floor of the Oregon House of Representatives Feb. 5, 2018. (Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune) When state Rep. Diego Hernandez heard a rumor in May 2017 accusing him of keeping a list ranking women lobbyists at the Oregon Capitol by attractiveness,[Read More…]
John, a youth mentor at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, helps 18-year-old Zack understand the various personalities of staff at the facility. John regularly works in the STEPS program, an alternative to isolation, which Zack uses several times each week. (Courtesy of Oregon Youth Authority) WOODBURN — Early on the Friday[Read More…]
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, Thursday joined six other GOP lawmakers to vote for a spending package designed to reopen most government agencies. (The Enterprise/File). WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Rep Greg Walden, R-Hood River, broke from his party Thursday on a vote to reopen the federal government. Walden joined six other[Read More…]
In compiling a damning report airing the Oregon Capitol’s dirty laundry, investigators failed to do their due-diligence and interview key witnesses, House Speaker Tina Kotek said Friday. The report detailed years of sexual harassment and claimed leadership failed repeatedly in addressing it. Bureau of Labor and Industries Commissioner Brad Avakian[Read More…]
Uncategorized The doors outside the Senator Hearing Room, where public works employee Jamie Namitz in October publicly announced she was sexually discriminated against at work. Namitz recently complained to the state Bureau of Labor and Industries to investigate the county public works department. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) A Marion County worker is[Read More…]
Oregon joined California and 15 other states Thursday in an effort to protect the Affordable Care Act. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leader of the 17-state coalition, filed a notice of appeal Thursday to a Northern District Court of Texas decision that found the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Becerra argued[Read More…]
SALEM — A five-month state investigation found that Democratic leaders in the Oregon Legislature knew legislative employees in the Capitol worked in a “hostile” environment amid pervasive sexual harassment but did little about it. A 52-page report released Thursday by the state Bureau of Labor and Industries’ Civil Rights Division[Read More…]
