Insider Index: This week in Salem by the numbers

Published 8:00 am Thursday, October 26, 2017

Ten numbers that illustrate some of this week’s big, and small, Oregon political stories:

• 2: State senators who have accused fellow Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, of unwanted touching.

• 0: Office doors that Sen. Kruse is expected to have come Friday.

• 5: Total legislators who are vacating or have vacated their seats as of this week since the close of the 2017 session, with the addition of Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day and Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, who are joining a regional power council; and State Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles, who is seeking a Trump administration appointment.

• $15,550: Reward offered by the U.S. Forest Service and conservation groups for information about the illegal poaching of a wolf in the Fremont-Winema National Forest.

• $1.7 million: Amount of venture capital invested in eight Bend start-ups at the Bend Venture Conference this past weekend, which was attended by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.

• 57: Percentage of Oregon children of immigrants living in a low-income household, according to a Register-Guard editorial that cites figures from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

• 40: Percentage of Oregon children in non-immigrant families who are low-income.

• 2: Factor by which a child is more likely to be struck by a car on Halloween, according to figures cited by ODOT from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

• 13: Percentage an average “Silver” plan on the individual health insurance exchange will increase in 2018 in Oregon.

• $2,700: Largest single donation to Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign from an Oregonian (entrepreneur Justin Alexander of Sandy), according to the Portland Business Journals, thus far.

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