Warm Springs radio station KWSO gets nearly $160,000 infusion from FEMA
Central Oregon Daily A community radio station owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs is getting a financial infusion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is granting $158,749 to KWSO-FM. This will be used to upgrade the station’s broadcast transmissions and warning systems, which are needed
Oregon leaders call on U.S. government for help, flexibility to help ranchers
Oregon Capital Chronicle The wildfires this season have scorched a record 1.5 million acres, forcing ranchers to move their cattle as flames approached while also fighting fires to save their homes This summer’s historic wildfires in Oregon have taken a toll on ranchers and their more than a million cows and
Klamath Community College receives grant to aid veteran students in obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, safety training
Herald and News Oregon’s U.S. senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced this week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding Klamath Community College and Linn-Benton Community College a combined total of $265,829 to grow their commercial driver’s license (CDL) programs. A CDL is needed for careers operating large
Financial reform bill gives consumers more protection and Merkley two-thirds of a loaf
The financial reform agreement reached as dawn broke Friday includes a provision written by Sen. Jeff Merkley prohibiting banks from using their own money to make speculative trades and making deals that bet against their own customers. But the language that Merkley and Sen. Carl Levin spent months selling to
A path to independence
Every president since Richard Nixon has embraced the goal of energy independence for the United States. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has prepared a plan for actually achieving that goal by 2030. It’s likely that elements of the plan are overly ambitious, or could be implemented only at unacceptable economic or
Merkley hopes to put his stamp on energy policy
Sen. Jeff Merkley has positioned himself to play a potentially pivotal role on clean-energy legislation that Senate Democrats hope to consider this summer. The caucus will meet privately today to consider what course to take to reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels, which environmentalists say is having a global
Merkley pitches plan to curb oil use, draws Reid’s eye
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is seeking a leading role in Senate efforts to cobble together a broad energy package for consideration on the floor this summer. The freshman senator on Monday used a speech at the Center for American Progress – a prominent liberal think tank with White House ties
Families, senator want laws to curb food-borne illnesses
PORTLAND, Ore. – The public finds out about food recalls after people get sick, but some Oregon families are hoping to change the laws to stop outbreaks before they happen. The families are working with Oregon’s Sen. Jeff Merkley on promoting a bill in Congress, and they met with him
Bend family whose child almost died from E. coli presses officials for quicker action on food safety
Stephen and Sarah Valenzuela took the day off work on Friday, bundled up their 5-year-old son and 3-week-old daughter to travel from their home in Bend to Portland to put a public face on food poisoning. In a meeting with U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Oregon public health officials about
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