Insider Index: This week’s news, by the numbers

Published 8:00 am Thursday, September 12, 2019

Here are 10 numbers that illustrate some of this week’s big, and small, Oregon news stories.

18: Months Oregon’s first Public Records Advocate, Ginger McCall, had been on the job before announcing this week that she was stepping down due to political pressure from Gov. Kate Brown‘s office.

1: Transgender people who have run for state legislative office in Oregon as of this week, according to Paige Kreisman, a trans woman who filed to run for a state house seat in Portland on Thursday.

161: Active volcanoes in the United States, according to The New York Times.

7: Number, out of the ten most dangerous volcanoes in the U.S., that are located in the Cascade Range.

6: Number, out of those seven, that are not “adequately monitored,” the Times reports.

$37 million: Amount the Oregon Lottery expects to profit from sports gaming in the first three years of the application’s debut, according to The Oregonian. The Lottery, which originally hoped to roll out the sports betting application in time for the start of football season, is now delaying it until the end of September or mid-October.

39: Percent of Oregon cannabis users who used a vaporizer pen to smoke pot in the past year, according to Willamette Week. The Trump administration has moved to ban flavored “vape pens” in an effort to cut down on youth vaping.

6: Deaths in the U.S. connected to vaporizer pens this year.

1,855: Oregonians who died from alcohol-related causes in 2016, according to The Oregonian.

$600 million: Sales of Oregon wine in 2018, according to The Oregonian.

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