Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized SALEM – Oregon’s prison system is laying off employees and cutting other costs as it faces a $60 million budget deficit. Colette Peters, director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, advised the agency’s employees of the circumstances in an email message Wednesday night. Agency officials said 24 jobs would be[Read More…]
Uncategorized An image of the coronavirus from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Oregon will soon be receiving roughly $7.3 million in federal funds provided as part of an emergency package approved by Congress last week that will help the state in its response to the outbreak of COVID-19.[Read More…]
Students joined Gov. Kate Brown at the Oregon Capitol for the signing of a climate change executive order on March 10, 2020 (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Gov. Kate Brown signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that directs state government to significantly cut greenhouse emissions in Oregon. The governor’s move in[Read More…]
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown is preparing an executive order to cut the state’s climate impacts on her own authority, after a second failure to get legislators to approve such a plan. The governor’s office “is having conversations with the Department of Justice to ensure the governor acts as aggressively[Read More…]
State Department of Administrative Services building in Salem. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) SALEM — Public workers who expected to contribute more to their savings in July to make up for cuts to retirement benefits will have to wait until September. The agency that pays out billions in retirement benefits to Oregon[Read More…]
Uncategorized A Marion County judge has reversed a decision by Oregon Secretary of State Bev Clarno to reject two proposed ballot initiatives on carbon reduction. Circuit Judge David Leith ruled Thursday, Jan. 16, that initiatives backed by renewable energy coalition Renew Oregon do not violate Oregon law prohibiting ballot measures from[Read More…]
Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon attorney general SALEM — About 21,800 Oregonians risk losing government benefits to help them buy food if a proposed federal rule goes into effect in April. To prevent that, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has joined with more than a dozen other states to sue the U.S.[Read More…]
SALEM — Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, is out of the Capitol this week while being treated for a hip injury at Oregon Health & Science University, according to his office. Courtney’s absence occurs as state lawmakers convene in the Capitol for a series of meetings in preparation for the[Read More…]
SALEM — Less than a month before legislators convene again, a new proposal to cap Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions is taking firmer shape. The aim is to reduce the state’s overall emissions from electricity, fossil fuels like natural gas and diesel, and industrial processes like making cement, steel and semi-conductors. Together,[Read More…]
Graham Trainor recently became president of the Oregon AFL-CIO following years of union organizing and activisim (Oregon AFL-CIO photo) PORTLAND — Graham Trainor has taken the helm at one of the state’s largest labor groups at a time when workers in Oregon — already a strong union state — appear[Read More…]
