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Wyden clears way for coal-supporter Manchin to head energy committee

Fears that the West Virginian senator will derail climate change policy mount, but Wyden's office says he's promoting green energy in other ways Update: On Tuesday, Dec. 11, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) was named the top Democrat on the Senate ener ...

5 Dec 2018 - Emily Green
The multibillion-dollar immigrant detention industry

The criminalization of improper border crossings costs taxpayers billions but does little to stifle the flow of illegal immigrants In April, members of the immigrant advocacy group Enlace rallied on the doorsteps of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s Portland office. ...

21 Jul 2016 - Emily Green
Our wilderness shortage: Oregon lags behind neighboring states’ wilderness protections

It’s been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, and Oregon is coming up short. When compared with bordering states, Oregon is dead last in terms of designated wilderness acreage. Additionally, while many western st ...

31 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for Oregon

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...

15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
The nature of politics: Bob Sallinger

Portland Audubon Society’s Conservation Director Bob Sallinger talks about controversial political moves that could have serious consequences for the region’s environmental landscape The Audubon Society has long recognized that if you want to measure the ...

16 Dec 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
Notable Quotables

Highlights from a year of interviews “So, if we can reclaim the House in the election of 2014 and hold the Senate, then Harry Reid rolls back the filibuster, then we can get a lot done the last two years of the Obama presidency. That means we can’t sit ar ...

14 Dec 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Ron Wyden vs. the culture of misinformation

Street Roots talks with Oregon’s senior senator about the government’s surveillance program on its own citizens. Like you, I’m angry. Angry at being spied upon by my own government, and then lied to about it. Not exactly virgin territory for a nation with ...

12 Sep 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Surveillance programs hit closer to home than portrayed

At a recent discussion about government surveillance hosted by the City Club of Portland, Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer were asked what role states must play in protecting Americans from the ever-increasing domestic spying acti ...

12 Sep 2013 - Becky Straus
Sen. Wyden calls on HUD to prevent Section 8 terminations, homelessness

Sen. Wyden calls on HUD to prevent Section 8 terminations, homelessness Sen. Ron Wyden has written a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, calling for assistance for the families in Northwest Oregon who are being dropped from re ...

17 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Wyden tries to stall evictions from Vernonia trailers

Wyden tries to stall evictions from Vernonia trailers Since a flood devastated Vernonia, Ore. in December 2007, some families have left the town. But many remain, some of them still living in government-issued trailers as they try to repair their ruined h ...

7 May 2009 - Street Roots