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,
One Senate Democrat makes the case for filibustering Neil Gorsuch
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has a message for his Democratic colleagues in the Senate: Don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you. On Wednesday afternoon, Politico reported that a handful of Senate Democrats are considering cutting a deal with the Republican majority leader to let Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court,
Trump’s proposed cut to school meals scheme branded ‘cruel and shameful’
Donald Trump’s plan to cut a school meals programme that has reached 40 million children worldwide has been branded “cruel and shameful” by US lawmakers. A $182m (£145m) bipartisan US aid enterprise, known as the McGovern-Dole food for education programme, has been described as life-changing by Republican and Democratic senators and
Merkley: “We Must Resist President Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Toward Authoritarianism”
In a half-hour Senate floor speech today, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) cited President Donald Trump’s attacks on the press as evidence of a “dangerous tilt toward authoritarianism” that must be resisted. “Throughout his candidacy, and now within the walls of the White House, President Trump has viciously, repeatedly attacked the media. He
Merkley, colleagues fight ‘dangerous’ cuts to EPA budget
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., led a group of 37 senators on Tuesday in opposing President Trump’s proposal to inflict a more than 30 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency budget. Expressing “extreme concern” over the cuts, the senators wrote to appropriations leaders, “During the President’s February 28, 2017
Poor sanitation, safety targeted in bill to improve Columbia River tribal fishing sites
Oregon and Washington legislators are again asking for money to improve the deplorable safety and sanitation conditions at Columbia River tribal fishing sites. They introduced a bill Tuesday that would upgrade the living conditions for Native American fishing crews while they wait for new villages to be built in the
Senate Democrats seek to rescind Trump border-wall order
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined 22 other senators late last week in introducing legislation to rescind President Trump’s executive order to construct a border wall and ramp up deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants. Trump’s executive order, signed January 25, mandates the immediate planning and construction
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