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Joining the ranks of "stock photos pulled from our staff's personal libraries/lives": this repurposed and cropped 2018 Instagram post feat. one of my favorite mugs. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/06/b...

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This is horribly sad news. The Malheur Enterprise punches far above its weight and in recent years has trained many talented young journalists, including several of the Salem Reporter crew across the hall. www.malheurenterprise.com/2025/05/06/m...

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Oregonians -- send me your tips! What is not being covered in Oregon that needs attention, particularly regarding social services, immigration or under the greater umbrella of Oregon politics? 🦫 Email: [email protected] Add me on signal: signal.me#eu/XQ0KP1zuo...

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The last time I went to this Cinebarre, a v confused employee produced the wrong sandwich and a fountain lemonade instead of the fancy pink spiked lemonade I ordered, interrupted America Ferrera's "Barbie" monologue to deliver an incorrect check and disappeared. www.salemreporter.com/2025/05/05/s...

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Not a baaaaaad day 🐑

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Trump's proposed cuts to the National Park Service represents the largest single funding change of any line item under the Department of Interior and a spreadsheet suggests cuts be targeted toward smaller sites. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/r...

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Wonky but v important discussion on this week’s @opb.org Politics Now podcast with @dirquez.bsky.social and Lauren Dake: The #orleg is relying more and more on placeholder bills that make it much harder for Oregonians to track their Legislature’s work. www.opb.org/article/2025...

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Until 2018, Oregon and Louisiana were the only two states that allowed non-unanimous jury convictions. Now, Louisiana could follow Oregon in letting people convicted before a 2020 Supreme Court ruling seek new trials. buff.ly/gYt8WcO by @delaneynolan.bsky.social for @lailluminator.com

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As Republican lawmakers across the U.S. have passed laws to restrict access to certain books and limit discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusion, Democratic Oregon lawmakers are taking steps to ensure that books by diverse authors remain accessible to readers. buff.ly/JnEpZq6

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It’s @miamaldonado.bsky.social’s first day on the #orleg beat, and she already published her first story on a bill to provide more workplace protections for ride share drivers. Give it a read and give her a follow! #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/28/o...

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“It’s been horrible. It’s been a deeply exhausting roller coaster,” the employee said. “It’s very difficult to work when you’re in a constant state of being terrorized by your employer.” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/24/c...

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It’s “follow members of Congress around as they talk to interesting people” week. Here’s my report from a Saturday with @bynum.house.gov in Silverton, where she promised to show up for constituents — even if only two people are there. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/23/i...

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Within about 12 hours today, I sliced open an index finger, bloodied a knee, scraped the opposite palm and lost some skin that should be on my chin. If you see me out reporting while held together with bandages, please trust that I’m much, much better at journalism than using knives or sidewalks.

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(This Salem resident’s far-fetched new vision for funding city services is to start issuing huge fines to the drivers who turn into crosswalks without waiting for pedestrians or block crosswalks because they’re too impatient for bridge traffic. Just let us walk downtown safely!)

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Salem resident, will back the city’s five-year levy to keep our libraries, parks and senior center open. Kotek also supports the concept of state aid for Salem but hasn’t talked with the state rep pushing a bill to do just that. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Flags in Oregon will be flown at half-staff to honor Pope Francis. Gov. @tinakotek.bsky.social, who was raised Catholic, praised the late pope as a champion for the poor, climate action and a more just and inclusive world. "His guidance in this moment of human history will be missed," she said.

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Oregon state Sen. Aaron Woods, D-Wilsonville, died on Saturday at age 75. Colleagues remembered him for his commitment to public service and his community. buff.ly/25Yw3EX by @jmshumway.bsky.social

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Oregon Senate confirms that Sen. Aaron Woods, a Wilsonville Democrat and retired Xerox executive, died on Saturday. No cause of death given, but Woods was undergoing medical treatment that led to him being removed from committees earlier this month. #orleg

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Also I met some guard geese 🪿

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Sobering media realization while shadowing a congresswoman on a district visit today: She asked a crowd to list off where they got their news, and the list was mostly Tiktokers, bloggers, MSNBC personalities. One person named the ag paper the Capital Press, but no other Oregon papers/TV made the cut

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Yes hello! We're hiring! Into Idaho state politics and policy? Come work with us! (Don't get caught sleeping on these benefits, either, now!)

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Another lawmaker heading to El Salvador to demand Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release. "This is not just one family’s nightmare; it is a constitutional crisis that should outrage every single one of us,” says Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.). “I will travel to El Salvador to confront this crisis head on."

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We’re so excited Mia’s coming to the @oregoncapitalchronicle.com! Readers probably already know her byline from all the great work she’s done in Idaho and that we’ve shared over the past few years, and Oregon’s gaining a brilliant reporter.

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When it comes to just plain weird lawmaker behavior, it’s hard to beat the AZ story (azmirror.com/2023/06/13/s...) about a state rep hiding Bibles between couch cushions and in a fridge, but Michigan appears to have done it.

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In 49-0 floor vote, the OR House just got a step closer to making it easier to force journalists to issue corrections, doubling time to build a defamation case. Free press champs say the bill, born of a legislator's son's J6 insurrection attendance, may be used to harass journalists. ✍️Tom Henderson

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Catching up on @abbeymcd.bsky.social series today and it is a gut punch. Up until Jan., state training for investigators determining whether someone should be forced into mental health treatment, included advice that if a person can find discarded food in a dumpster, they can take care of themself.

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Longtime journalist Dick Hughes writes about troubling transparency trends. After Dick's column published, a Kotek spokesperson responded to me to claim it removed a simple staff list because of "threats of violence" and deferred questions to state police. oregoncapitalinsider.com/2025/04/17/c...

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The Oregon Court of Appeals found that a middle school student’s curiosity doesn’t amount to criminal mischief in a case that involved a toilet and an enticing hole in the boys bathroom ceiling.

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Jackie Llanos, a reporter with our sister outlet @floridaphoenix.com, spent the day tracking the case of an American citizen and Georgia resident wrongly held in a Florida jail on an immigration detainer and who has since been released. Her original story: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

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Oregon schools will soon have something they’ve never had before: more than a year to plan for summer school with the promise of consistent funding from the #orleg. But it comes with one condition. buff.ly/DD5Wn0c by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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Oregon fishermen, clothing, food, wine and beer manufacturers might not survive Trump's tariffs, business leaders told Gov. Tina Kotek Wednesday. Tariffs projected to cost the average U.S. household $3,800 more per year, too. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/16/o...

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