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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,

Portland gets another $9.6M for 82nd Avenue improvements

Portland Business Journal One of the city’s main north-south corridors will get a cool $9.6 million for safety improvements. The U.S. Department of Transportation gave the city of Portland the money to alleviate issues in the “high-crash corridor” along a seven-mile stretch of 82nd Avenue, which runs through both Northeast and Southeast

Wyden, Merkley urge feds to make grazing flexibility and recovery assistance available

Central Oregonian U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urging the Department of the Interior to support Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s request for emergency authorizations to allow flexibility in grazing schedules and use alternative grazing areas in response to the current wildfire disaster in Oregon. “The grazing flexibility requested

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

HP gets $50 million in federal money to expand Oregon campus

Statesman Journal Oregon’s Hewlett-Packard campus in Corvallis will receive $50 million from the federal government under the CHIPS and Science Act. Gov. Tina Kotek, U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, U.S Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Oregon State University President Jayathi Murthy and White House CHIPS Implementation Coordinator Ryan Harper

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