Lawmakers are planning proposals to expand behavioral health services, improve maternal health outcomes and control prescription costs for pharmacies By: Ben Botkin – October 4, 2024 || OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE Oregon lawmakers plan to address myriad challenges on the state’s health care landscape next year. The behavioral health system lacks thousands of[Read More…]
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State struggles to recover more than $24 million from people responsible for wildfires
A partial list from the Oregon Department of Forestry shows it has collected $86,000 of $24 million it paid to fight several dozen wildfires that were maliciously or negligently ignited over the last two decades By: Alex Baumhardt – October 2, 2024 ||OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE Each year, the Oregon Department of Forestry[Read More…]
OR Dept of Ed announces Teacher of the Year
NEWS RELEASE October 2, 2024 ODE Media Contact: Marc Siegel School District Media Contact: Valerie Feder Oregon’s 2024-25 Teacher of the Year is Bryan Butcher Jr. of Beaumont Middle School (Portland, OR) – In an exciting surprise announcement today, Bryan Butcher Jr., a Beaumont Middle School math teacher, was named and[Read More…]
Commentary: Town hall meetings will hopefully unwrap STAR voting system
By JOHN W. ROSS/for The Herald — Ah, voting systems. They’re a bit like the weather—more or less, plus or minus, give or take. Some people like it hot and sunny. Others want it misty and cool. While yet others prefer theirs freezing cold with solid iced rivers or[Read More…]
First High-Country Paint Out brings some of areas best artists together for outdoor event
By LAUREN TARR/for The Herald — The Impressionists broke tradition, and gained their name, by taking small canvases outdoors to capture light. Van Gogh and Cezanne developed their individual visual languages this way. Monet showed light changing on simple haystacks in a stellar show at MoMA decades ago. The[Read More…]