Bend awarded $5 million federal grant to fuel affordable housing production
Bend Bulletin The city of Bend has received a $5 million grant intended to kickstart affordable housing supply, the federal government announced Wednesday. Awarded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the grant set the course for the city to identify and address policies that slow affordable housing
Wyden, Merkley announce $30.1 million in ‘Payments in Lieu of Taxes’ to Oregon counties; $6 million to C. Oregon
KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Thursday that counties throughout Oregon will receive more than $30.1 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding for 2024, including over $6 million for Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. Because local governments cannot tax federal lands, annual PILT
Wyden, Merkley, colleagues call on Postal Service to prepare for November election
KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden said Thursday he is leading Senate colleagues including fellow Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley in calling on Postmaster General DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service to share their plans to accommodate high volumes of mail expected in the upcoming 2024 general election in Oregon and nationwide.
Donald Trump’s Lies About the Iran Deal Reveal He Is Dangerously Out of Touch with Reality?
Donald Trump was expected to refuse to recertify the Iran nuclear deal. He did that on Friday. But the president did much more than signal his personal disapproval of Tehran’s compliance with an agreement that the Obama administration and international allies reached in 2015 to avert the development of nuclear weapons by
EPA ‘remains committed’ to working with DEQ, tribes on Portland Superfund cleanup
The Environmental Protection Agency said it “remains committed to working with all parties” involved in the $1.05 billion plan to cleanup the Portland Harbor Superfund site. The EPA’s acting administrator in the Pacific Northwest, Michelle Pirzadeh, expressed the federal agency’s support for the state, tribes and other partners in a
Senators push for regional fishery disaster declaration
Several Oregon and California senators are pushing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to immediately support Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and California Gov. Jerry Brown’s catastrophic regional fishery disaster declaration. The disaster declarations have been pending since May after nearly 200 miles of coastline in Oregon and California were closed
Wyden and Merkley discuss DACA’s future at Portland roundtable
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – An important application process for the children of undocumented immigrants has now expired. The deadline for these individuals to renew their status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, was Thursday. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were in Portland Friday talking
Watch a Top EPA Nominee Embarrass Himself with Feigned Ignorance of Basic Facts
WILLIAM WEHRUM IS the Trump administration’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. “Bill,” the first line of his bio at his law firm, Hunton & Williams, boasts, “is well known for his thorough grasp of environmental issues.” In his Senate confirmation hearing this week, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
Senators worried about IRS contracts
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley joins a group of eight senators who demand scrutiny of the IRS‘s decision to contract with the recently breeched Equifax. The IRS awarded a no-bid contract of $7.25 million dollars to verify taxpayer identities, and assist in preventing tax fraud. Equifax has been in the news
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