Feds provide $1 million to rehab farmworker housing
News-Register McMinnville nonprofit Community Home Builders has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal grant funds to rehabilitate 24 units of agricultural worker housing at Villa del Sol apartments in east McMinnville. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas announced the award of $956,333 from the
OREGON AND FOUR TRIBES EARN OVER $12 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS-GRID RESILIENCE
KQEN On Wednesday, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Val Hoyle announced that Oregon’s Energy Department has secured $10.9 million and four Tribes with members in Oregon have earned a combined $1.16 million in federal investment. A joint release said this is to
Americans bet $100 million on Trump v. Harris, but at what cost?
NPRAn election betting advertisement flashed on screen during coverage of former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend on the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative media company. “Bet on the US election,” the ad for Kalshi said as Trump spoke on stage. “Bet $100 on Trump,
Los senadores Wyden y Merkley luchan por la protección de los monumentos nacionales
WASHINGTON, DC – Dos legisladores de Oregón presentaron una legislación que apunta a socavar la recomendación de la administración Trump que podría conducir a un Monumento Nacional Cascade-Siskiyou más pequeño. Administraciones anteriores han utilizado la Ley de Antigüedades de 1906 para ampliar los monumentos nacionales, en particular el Monumento Nacional Cascade-Siskiyou, que fue ampliado por el presidente Obama. Él
Los planes de Trump para inmigración e infraestructura encuentran una rápida resistencia en el Congreso
La promesa que hizo el presidente Trump en su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión el martes por la noche de “extender una mano abierta” a ambos partidos en pos de una agenda política ambiciosa chocó rápidamente el miércoles con la realidad de un Congreso en gran medida paralizado y de un Washington profundamente polarizado. El llamado de Trump a una infraestructura masiva
Oregon DACA Recipients To Attend State Of The Union Address
When U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage next week for the State of the Union address, several young Oregonians who have a stake in the ongoing immigration debate will be in the audience. Aldo Solano is one of them. The debate raging on Capitol Hill has thrust the 24-year-old Portland
DACA recipient is Merkley’s State of the Union guest
WASHINGTON – Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that his guest to the 2018 State of the Union address will be Leonardo Reyes, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient from the Salem area and co-founder of the Oregon DACA Coalition. Merkley said he voted “no” on a series of continuing resolutions to temporarily
Cómo los grupos religiosos obtuvieron fondos climáticos globales
TORONTO — En julio de 2015, un grupo bipartidista de senadores estadounidenses aseguró el futuro de mil millones de dólares de apoyo estadounidense al Fondo Verde para el Clima de las Naciones Unidas. Lo hicieron defendiendo una enmienda en el subcomité de asignaciones responsable del financiamiento climático internacional que eventualmente allanaría el camino para que el Presidente
Hard Lines on Immigration Drove U.S. to a Shutdown Nobody Wanted
Everybody said they didn’t want a government shutdown. There even seemed to be an easy way out: Democrats get a compromise to deal with hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children in exchange for President Donald Trump’s demand for tighter border security with Mexico, including
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