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Preventing and reporting sexual assault became a big focus at Portland State University on Tuesday as U.S. Senators and a representative from Oregon listened to concerns. Statistics show that 1-in-5 women report being sexually assaulted in college, and those are just the reported cases. Local students and Oregon dignitaries agree that we

Three of Oregon’s top elected officials — sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici — visited Portland State University on Tuesday to discuss how to reduce sexual violence on college campuses. But no discussion of sexual assault in the current election cycle could last long without a ringing

ASHLAND — Opponents to the proposed doubling of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument say their concerns about taking federal timberlands out of production, the loss of backwoods grazing and increased wildfire risks have been improperly left out of expansion discussions. Though clearly in the minority of a packed Southern Oregon University

EUGENE, Ore. — Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden held a political discussion with students at South Eugene High School on Thursday, at the “Listening to the Future Assembly.”  Hundreds of kids packed into the auditorium hoping the senators could clarify some pressing issues this election season. The kids lined

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

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