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.
Local, national officials prioritize canal piping
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., reviewed Monday federal and local efforts to install pipe systems in Central Oregon canals as a way to move water more efficiently. At a meeting with local irrigation district and environmental group representatives in Bend, Merkley emphasized adequate water supply as critical for the area’s agriculture
Bernie Sanders’s lone Senate endorser explains why corporate cash is threatening American politics
There’s a way of looking at the 2016 presidential election and concluding that liberal reformers have dramatically overstated the danger corporate cash poses to the political system. The worry normally goes that the candidate who can amass the bigger war-chest will get an unfair advantage at the polls. But Bernie
Senator Merkley Tours Pilot Butte Canal
BEND, OR — Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was in Bend, Monday, touring a section of the Pilot Butte Canal slated for piping, next year. “That greatly reduces the losses of the water percolating down through the ground and also reduces losses from evaporation,” he said at the event. “The key
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
WASHINGTON — The fierce struggle to enact and carry out the Affordable Care Act was supposed to put an end to 75 years of fighting for a health care system to insure all Americans. Instead, the law’s troubles could make it just a way station on the road to another,
To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Wells Fargo Woes Shine Light on a Knotty Problem
When is something important enough to a company’s business that it should tell investors? Wells Fargo & Co.’s sales scandal provides a real-life window on the often-knotty question of deciding when a piece of information is “material” and so must be disclosed to investors. In part, that is because the
Three Senators Ask SEC to Investigate Wells Fargo
Three Democratic senators asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Wells Fargo & Co. misled investors and violated whistleblower protections while allegedly engaging in illegal sales practices. Sens. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) wrote a letter to SEC Chairman Mary
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