Biden includes more than $1 billion over 10 years to fund non-police crisis response in his American Rescue Plan In the year since Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) first introduced the CAHOOTS Act, much has changed to suggest that this nationwide incentive for n ...
5 May 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
The White House’s attitudes toward homelessness could grow the population it wishes to sweep away As of this writing, the future of the Trump administration is unknown. What comes next may be the end of a contentious legacy of a single-term president or a ...
21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The Trump administration's rule change would cut food assistance to about 20,000 Oregonians Oregon is joining 13 other states, as well as New York City and the District of Columbia, in suing the Trump administration over a proposed rule change to SNA ...
16 Jan 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The congressman from Portland hopes to flip the script on centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination Congressman Earl Blumenauer doesn’t consider himself naive. He’s been in politics most of his life, from the Portland City Council to serving Orego ...
13 Sep 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
The deadline looms for public comment on changes to the National Environmental Protection Act People concerned about the environmental impact of resource extractions and other federal actions have until Monday, Aug. 12, to voice their concerns about a pro ...
9 Aug 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
Oregon's senior U.S. senator calls for a tax overhaul to support the Green New Deal Oregon’s senior U.S. senator, Ron Wyden, says he intends to use his position as the ranking Democrat of the Senate’s finance and energy committees to push forward the ...
22 Feb 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
The commission's longest-serving member, who opposes the decision to roll back protections, discusses what's at stake When the Federal Communications Commission voted this month to gut internet neutrality protections, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
The actor will read from his book, ‘The Grouchy Historian,’ at Powell’s in Beaverton Famous for channeling his inner grouch, actor Ed Asner reached a tipping point last year in the build-up to the 2016 election. The multi-Emmy-winning actor was fed up wit ...
10 Nov 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Dreamers deserve a path to citizenship, says the congresswoman from Oregon One out of every eight residents in U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s District 1 is Latino or Hispanic, making the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program a critica ...
7 Sep 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
He publicly walked away from an adviser role for the Environmental Protection Agency, but he's still dedicated to smart housing and healthy communities As a civil engineer, Carlos Martín could expect to get a few “likes” now and again on his social m ...
2 Jun 2017 - Joanne Zuhl