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,
Wyden, Merkley put appropriation requests online
WASHINGTON – Oregonians were invited Friday to start reviewing and commenting on fiscal year 2010 appropriations requests received by the offices of U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). The first wave of appropriations requests received by the two offices — for the Commerce, State, Justice and Defense appropriations
Merkley has first White House chat
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley wasn’t disappointed by his first White House meeting with President Barack Obama. Senate Budget Committee members, including Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, met with Obama on Wednesday to discuss next year’s plan for federal spending. “It was a pretty cool thing with him sitting there
A glimpse at Merkley’s new life in the Senate
WASHINGTON – My colleague Charles Pope and I sat down for breakfast with Sen. Jeff Merkley Wednesday morning to get at least a glimpse of how the Oregon Democrat is settling into life in the Senate. A glimpse is sort of what you get, given how senators are kept moving
Republican desk becomes a Democrat as Merkley pays tribute to Hatfield
Years ago, when Jeff Merkley was an intern for Oregon’s iconic Mark Hatfield, the running joke was that the Republican senator would one day pull the young and impressionable liberal from his Democratic moorings to “the other side.” Merkley and his family of die-hard Democrats always countered that it would
Editor’s Notebook: Merkley off to a good start with openess, accessibility
Imagine my surprise when I answered the telephone on my desk and heard, “Vicki, this is Senator Jeff Merkley.” There had been no staff member on the phone first, telling me Merkley would be coming on the line. It was the new Oregon senator himself. That’s unusual — and far
Businesses discuss concerns with Walden, Merkley
Oregon’s lone Republican in the U.S. Congress and the state’s newest U.S. Senator joined forces briefly Thursday to respond to concerns from Pendleton-area business leaders. The Round-Up City Development Corporation put together the low-key meeting Thursday afternoon with Rep. Greg Walden and Sen. Jeff Merkley. Staff for both Congressmen said
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