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State approves new recycling rules to reduce packaging pollution, make producers pay for waste
Starting this summer, Oregonians across the state will begin to receive a standardized list of what can and ...
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Oregon Rep. Salinas introduces bill to allow federal money for furniture banks
Reasoning that a house without a bed, chair or table isn’t a home, a U.S. representative from Oregon ...
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Oregon group home workers launch vote of no confidence against agency director
Hundreds of Oregon Department of Human Services employees who work in group homes that serve vulnerable Oregonians are ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
After a brief stint away from state government, Brian Turi Light is interim human resources director at the ...
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Democrats win supermajority in Oregon House, Senate
Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a ...
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OHSU study sheds light on the role housing and other needs play in health care
Housing and food insecurity sharply increased in Oregon among Medicaid and Medicare recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic, even ...
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Kotek calls special legislative session to pay outstanding bills from record Oregon wildfire season
The 2024 fire season cost Oregon emergency response agencies nearly $350 million, and the state leaders are struggling ...
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Sen. Wyden calls on Oregon’s largest electric utility to detail true drivers of massive rate hikes
Customers of Oregon’s largest investor-owned electric utility pay more than 40% more for their electricity today than they ...
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Hunger rates in Oregon are rising
Hunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic, but then COVID hit and ...
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Trump picks Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Chavez-DeRemer for labor secretary
Oregon Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who cultivated a closer relationship with some labor unions than most Republicans ...