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Merkley Monthly: Keeping our communities safe from extreme heat

Tillamook Headlight Herald If it feels like summers are getting longer and hotter, it’s not your imagination. This past July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded in human history, following the hottest thirteen-straight months scientists have ever seen. Extreme heat is melting the snowpack in the Cascades, scorching lands

Oregon literacy programs getting $11.5 million boost

KCBY Oregon is getting a boost to the state’s literacy programs – an $11.5 million boost. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the funding Friday morning, saying the money will help improve literacy rates among children from kindergarten through high school. The money is earmarked primarily for children whose

Merkley, Wyden Celebrate $11.5 Million Coming to Oregon to Boost Literacy Programs

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that $11.5 million is coming to Oregon to boost the state’s programs to close disparities in literacy for students.  The U.S. Department of Education is awarding the Oregon Department of Education $11,578,036 to advance literacy skills, including

Oregon Delegation Announces $9.6 Million for the City of Portland to Make Critical Safety Improvements Along 82nd Avenue 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, alongside U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici, today announced new federal funding to improve one of Portland’s most important, high-crash corridors.  The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding the City of Portland $9.6 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make

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

DURBIN, PALLONE, MERKLEY LEAD AMICUS BRIEF URGING SUPREME COURT TO SUPPORT FDA’S PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY AND ACTIONS TO REGULATE E-CIGARETTES

During its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will hear FDA’s appeal of a Fifth Circuit decision that struck down the agency’s denials of applications from an e-cigarette manufacturer WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-06), Ranking Member

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