NEWS RELEASE November 25, 2024 Media Contact: Marc Siegel ODE is also releasing the new SEED Survey Statewide Report, which captures students’ voices about their experience in Oregon’s public schools. (Salem, OR) – The 2023-24 edition of the Oregon Statewide Report Card is now available on the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) website.[Read More…]
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Kotek calls special legislative session to pay outstanding bills from record Oregon wildfire season
The state owes more than $34 million to firefighters and contractors who helped put out more than 2,000 fires this summer and fall By: Alex Baumhardt – November 26, 2024 || OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE The 2024 fire season cost Oregon emergency response agencies nearly $350 million, and the state leaders are[Read More…]
DMV: This is the final holiday travel season before the REAL ID deadline takes effect
Nov. 12, 2024 SALEM – Thanksgiving and Christmas are among the busiest air travel days of the year, and this holiday season will be the last before the May 7, 2025, federal REAL ID deadline. Since Oregon’s REAL ID option became available in July 2020, one-third of the state’s 3.7 million[Read More…]
A new scenic bikeway for Oregon
By Rachael McDonald | KLCC Published November 22, 2024 A forest service road that winds through the Willamette National Forest east of Eugene has been designated as Oregon’s 18th scenic bikeway. At its Nov. 20 meeting, the Oregon Parks and Recreation commission approved the designation for Aufderheide Drive. The 60-mile route connects the[Read More…]
Oregon likely faces battle with next Trump administration
Randy Stapilus November 22, 2024 || OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE During the just-concluded campaign for attorney general, Republican Will Lathrop dodged a question about whether he supported his party’s presidential candidate by saying he was “laser focused” on public safety issues in Oregon and not on national politics. National issues, he[Read More…]