Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Oregon Legislature. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem will get millions of dollars to fund micro shelter villages, affordable housing and airport improvements after the 2022 Legislative session ended last week. Most of the money Salem is getting is through HB 5202. The largest amount of funding, $2.5 million, will go to[Read More…]
Uncategorized Oregon Senate on Aug. 10, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A bill that will make it easier to site micro shelter villages in Salem unanimously passed the Senate Friday. HB 4037 requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services find underutilized state property so the city of Salem can use it for[Read More…]
Uncategorized DevNW has plans to develop Evergreen Church into 19 units of affordable housing. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A bill that allows affordable housing developments to be sited on land zoned for commercial use or that is owned publicly or by religious groups cleared the Legislature Tuesday. The legislation (Senate Bill 8)[Read More…]
State Rep. Rachel appears on a screen in a legislative hearing room used to accommodate overflow. The topic was a safe gun storage proposal she plans to introduce in the 2020 legislative session. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Oregon’s gun owners will face penalties for not securing their firearms when not in[Read More…]
Rep. Paul Evans plays a campaign commercial on his phone in his Capitol office. Evans made the commercial in response to attack ads from his opponent, Selma Pierce. The commercial is from the perspective of his dog, Beau, to set the record straight. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) State Rep. Paul Evans[Read More…]
Sen. Brian Boquist talks legal strategy from his home office, where he has started spending hours each day learning how to draft motions for his lawsuits against Senate President Peter Courtney. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by state Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, that accused[Read More…]
Senators Ginny Burdick, Jeff Golden and Fred Girod listen to public feedback to a campaign finance reform proposal during a hearing on Tuesday. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Legislators this week considered a plan intended to impose greater controls on Oregon’s increasingly expensive political campaigns and reduce the influence of money on[Read More…]
Senate District 10 extends into Polk County and includes west and south Salem. Nkenge Harmon Johnson, president and CEO of the Urban League of Portland, has filed to run for the Salem-area Senate seat previously held by Jackie Winters. On Monday, Harmon Johnson, a resident of Salem, created a candidate[Read More…]
Uncategorized Senate District 10 extends into Polk County and includes west and south Salem. After Deb Patterson lost her race against longtime state Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem, in 2018, she immediately began preparing for a rematch in four years. But Patterson, a Democrat, is getting a second chance to run for[Read More…]
Rally signs from Oregon educators line the Capitol during the February 18, 2019 March for Our Students. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) SALEM — A $1 billion-per-year tax plan to boost education cleared a major procedural hurdle in the Capitol Monday — and it got a big political boost in the process.[Read More…]
