California Senators Push for More Year-Round Firefighters
A new proposal is aimed at addressing California’s growing fire season — which typically lasted from June to October in the ...
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As fire season grows, California senators push for more year-round firefighters
After LA fires, Senate President Mike McGuire proposes full-time firefighters to replace the current seasonal workforce ...
Oregon’s near-worst-in-nation education outcomes prompt a reckoning on school spending
Late last month, when newly released national test scores showed Oregon elementary and middle school students ranked near the bottom of the barrel in math and reading, the silence was palpable. The ...
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Federal judge blocks ‘catastrophic’ Trump administration cut to NIH grant funding
Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., wrote in a statement the NIH policy change amounts to ...
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Research universities reel from ‘catastrophic’ Trump administration cut to NIH funding
Research universities, medical schools warn a funding change by the National Institutes of Health could curtail breakthroughs ...
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OJP investigation: After the inferno
After deadly utility-caused fires in Washington, Utah and, most recently, Hawaii, officials in those states issued “cause and ...
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Donald Trump’s ‘catastrophic’ NIH funding cut temporarily blocked by federal judge
A federal judge on Monday prevented the National Institutes of Health from changing the percentage that universities and ...
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Oregon senators join effort to support NIH funding for Oregon institutions
After the Senate passed the vote to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Servies, Oregon U.S.
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Oregon senator proposes changing state wildfire map to curb anger, rumors
Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a ...
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Senator seeks to change eminent domain laws in response to proposed transmission line
State lawmakers on Tuesday considered two bills aimed at changing the process for eminent domain proceedings in response to a ...
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‘The least qualified nominee’: Oregon senator leads effort to block RFK Jr. nomination
Ahead of a Senate vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, one Oregon senator is leading an effort among Democrats to oppose his ...