Salem, Oregon News
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Timber Unity and other groups protest House Bill 2020. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Two members of a quickly rising political activist community of loggers have been invited to the White House for an afternoon talk on environmental policy by President Donald Trump. Timber Unity, a group comprised mostly of loggers but[Read More…]
Uncategorized A Dallas-based worker in the state Department of Human Services accused of having sex in front of a minor has quit, Salem Reporter has learned. Mark Walsh resigned June 28, according to an agency spokesman, seven months after he was placed on paid administrative leave. Walsh and paralegal Kate Guy[Read More…]
Uncategorized Rachel Alexander, a journalist with Salem Reporter. The Society of Professional Journalists on Monday cited Rachel Alexander of Salem Reporter for her work last fall on a story about Salem’s efforts to care for the homeless. The professional organization awarded Alexander’s story in competition among small newsrooms in Oregon, Washington,[Read More…]
SALEM — Christmas has come to Oregon’s legislators. In one of the final steps of the 2019 Legislature, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a massive bill to deliver about $1.32 billion to projects across the state, from Clackamas to Harney counties. One of the least controversial bills to pass this session, it[Read More…]
Jenny Madland, top left, David Wood, Denny McCarthy, Tara Baldridge, Robin Farup-Romero and Kimberly Ingram, bottom right, are taking on new leadership roles in Salem-Keizer schools for the 2019-20 year. Three Salem-Keizer middle schools and Bush Elementary School will have new principals when school starts this fall. District leaders announced[Read More…]
Gov. Brown does a ceremonial signing of the Student Success Act. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) SALEM — The highly public downfall of a legislative plan to cap the state’s greenhouse gas emissions cast a long shadow over the last two weeks of the legislative session. Despite its acrimonious conclusion, though, Gov.[Read More…]
Dancers at the World Beat Festival. (Mary Louise VanNatta/ Salem Reporter) Kathleen Fish’s cell phone buzzes again and she’s off to check on one of the sponsors. As the executive director of the Salem Multicultural Institute, she’s the one who everyone calls with questions at the highly-anticipated World Beat Festival. [Read More…]
Uncategorized (Illustration by Anna CK Smith/Special to Salem Reporter) The classroom assistant was returning from lunch when a colleague asked her for help with a student who was biting and hitting. She worked with another teacher to move the elementary schooler into an empty classroom. “I was asked to help hold[Read More…]
Gov. Brown riles up advocates for cap and trade after Senate President Peter Courtney declared House Bill 2020 dead. (Claire Withycombe/Oregon Capital Bureau) Less than 24 hours after the 2019 Legislature closed, Gov. Kate Brown renewed the fight for a cap and trade program, saying Monday she might act with[Read More…]
