Community leaders and health officials point to distrust, an incompetent early pandemic response and the predictable results of longstanding systemic inequities Black and Indigenous Oregonians have been infected, hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at rat ...
26 Jan 2022 - Henry Brannan
Housing advocates plan to push for further renter protections when the Legislature’s regular session begins next month The Oregon State Legislature met in a special session Dec. 21 and extended the state’s eviction moratorium to June 30, despite concerns ...
30 Dec 2020 - Tom Henderson
Housing advocates say the legislation fails to prevent housing instability for thousands of Oregonians. Property owners say they won’t get adequate protection. Oregon lawmakers say they want renters to stay in their homes, but advocates on both sides of t ...
2 Dec 2020 - Tom Henderson
A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...
12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Check back for updates on the status of these important pieces of legislation The Oregon Legislature adjourned its special session late Friday, June 26. Bills specifically addressing homelessness — an issue Speaker of the House Tina Kotek wanted to decla ...
26 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
Vulnerable Oregonians take center stage during Legislature's emergency session, likely to extend into next week He went to the hospital in Corvallis with pneumonia, but the physician who saw him thought the 64-year-old quadriplegic man with developme ...
26 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
Oregon lawmakers will head back to Salem this week to address police accountability and pandemic mitigation, including legislation on evictions and homelessness Oregon’s moratoriums on residential and commercial evictions expire at the end of the month, a ...
23 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
Whether the Legislature will convene to provide relief remains uncertain, and the Employment Department's director has been replaced in response to a massive backlog Kelsi Morrison’s livelihood abruptly ended when she closed the doors of Hair Bar 47, ...
4 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
The governor’s decision not to call a special session leaves housing policy recommendations in the balance Morgan Florea doesn’t have to worry for three months about being evicted from her Portland apartment because she can’t pay the rent. Oregon Gov. Kat ...
7 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson