AID: Corvallis offers Service Fee Assistance, State offers Enhanced SNAP Help
Officials know those City Services fee bills are harder on some folks than others, so they offer folks...
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Guest Commentary: A Competitiveness Agenda Would Help Oregon’s Economy
Oregon needs a healthy business climate to encourage private-sector investment, create jobs and opportunities for Oregonians, and generate...
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PROFILE: From Refugee to Oregon Senate Majority Leader, Kayse Jama Focuses on Finding Common Ground
Kayse Jama arrived in Portland in 1998 as a refugee from war-torn Somalia, with no job, few prospects...
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Kotek Makes Final Plea to Biden: Make Owyhee Canyonlands a National Monument
Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of...
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As Weather Becomes More Severe, Hoyle Seeks Next-Gen Forecasting System
Our district’s U.S. Representatives, Val Hoyle, has signed onto a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader Hakeem Jeffries,...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Cowlitz Tribe Builds a Model for Gender Affirming Care
The colonial legacies of assimilation policies and heteropatriarchal notions of gender and sexuality continue to reverberate through Indigenous...
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OSU Researcher’s 3D Print Acts Like a Muscle, it Can Even Crawl
An Oregon State University researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are...
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Kotek Proposes $39.3 Billion Budget, Increases for Housing, Homelessness, Schools
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants the state to spend more than $2 billion on homelessness and housing and...
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Oregon Approves New Recycling Rules and Fees for Next Year
Starting this summer, Oregonians across the state will begin to receive a standardized list of what can and...
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Oregon Monarch Butterflies, Pollinator Projects get New Federal Funds
$758,810 in funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, or NFWF, has been newly slated for two...
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Government Catchup: Black Friday and the Benton Landfill Expansion, City Fee Increases, Flag Freakout, Imagining a Civic Campus
With Black Friday upon us – let’s start with local environmentalist Mark Yeager telling us that the Benton...
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Corvallis Civic Campus Committee Co-Chair Voices Worries Over City Actions
At a Nov. 21 City Council work session, Steve Clark, one of the co-chairs of our fair burgh’s...
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Democrats win Supermajority in Oregon House and Senate
Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a...
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Oregon Group Home Workers Launch No Confidence Vote Against State Agency Director
Hundreds of Oregon Department of Human Services employees who work in group homes that serve vulnerable Oregonians are...
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Corvallis Calendar: Friday to Friday, Nov. 29 to Dec. 6
Friday, November 29 League of Women Voters: Opportunity to Help the Unhoused. Donate Supplies for Unhoused Individuals. Each...
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South Town Art Walk this Sunday, Useful and Beautiful Gifts
Every year, the streets of South Corvallis brighten the first Sunday of December with delightful handmade goods crafted...
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Looking to Buy a Home, but Need Down Payment Help? Oregon has a Program
Oregon Housing and Community Services, or OHCS, recently scored $163 million to help first-time homebuyers with loans through its...
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Kotek Calls Special Legislative Session to Pay Now Due Bills for Wildfire Fighters
The 2024 fire season cost Oregon emergency response agencies nearly $350 million, and the state leaders are struggling...
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