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,
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
Nominee for EPA’s air office tells senator he is ‘not familiar’ with climate data
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s air and radiation office told a Senate committee Wednesday that questions still exist about whether human activities are significantly contributing to climate change, a false claim that has been made by countless other administration officials. At his confirmation hearing, William
Oregon, California senators step up pressure on Trump administration to approve salmon emergency cash
Oregon and California’s four senators, all Democrats, stepped up the pressure on the Trump administration Wednesday to approve disaster assistance for salmon fishermen along 200 miles of coastline. In April, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, which manages coastal salmon seasons, recommended closing coastal and commercial salmon fishing entirely along an area equal
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