Judge: Government Must Identify Thousands More Migrant Kids Separated From Parents

A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to identify thousands more migrant families separated at the border before the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy was announced in 2018. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw's ruling vastly expanded the number of migrant families potentially eligible for relief under a federal class action lawsuit that challenged the legality of the practice, and ultimately banned further family separation. On June 26 of last year, Sabraw ordered...

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JPR Live Session: John Medeski's Mad Skillet

Famed keyboardist John Medeski is not easily contained to a single project or genre. He is credited on over 300 works to date, most notably as one third of the groundbreaking trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Equally comfortable behind a Steinway grand piano, Hammond organ or any number of vintage keyboards, Medeski is a highly sought after improviser and band leader whose projects range from work with John Zorn, The Word (Robert Randolph, North Mississippi Allstars), Phil Lesh, Don Was, John Scofield, Coheed & Cambria, Susana Baca, Sean Lennon, Marc Ribot, Irma Thomas, Blind Boys of Alabama, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and many more.

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Poor In Oregon Means Working Poor

The idea that people in poverty are just lazy people shirking work is severely undercut by research. That includes a new report from the Oregon Center for Public Policy showing that most Oregonians below the poverty line have jobs. Janet Bauer is a policy analyst at OCPP.

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California Makes Moves To Curb Building Emissions

Even buildings all decked out with solar panels may still be burning fossil fuels for heat and hot water. And California just put some attention into reducing emissions from buildings across the state, through a new policy report from the California Energy Commission. The move is applauded at the environmental group NRDC, where Pierre Delforge focuses on building emissions .

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Unvaccinated Boy, 6, Spent 57 Days In The Hospital With Tetanus

A new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention details the harrowing story of a child in Oregon who contracted tetanus because he wasn't vaccinated. The boy was playing outside on a farm in 2017 when he cut his forehead. Six days later, he started having symptoms: a clenched jaw, muscle spasms and involuntary arching of his neck and back. When he started struggling to breathe, his parents realized he needed help and called for emergency medical services. Doctors...

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JPR Live Session: Darlingside (2019)

" It's over now / The flag is sunk / The world has flattened out, " are the first words of Extralife , the new album by Boston-based quartet. While the band's critically acclaimed 2015 release Birds Say was steeped in nostalgia and the conviction of youth, Extralife grapples with dystopian realities and uncertain futures. Whether ambling down a sidewalk during the apocalypse or getting stuck in a video game for eternity, the band asks, sometimes cynically, sometimes playfully: what comes next...

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A section of Highway 101 near Brookings, Oregon, will partially re-open to a single gravel lane, with flaggers on either side, Saturday at noon after a massive landslide last month. 

More people used Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act to end their life in 2018 than in any other year since the law took effect in 1997. Now, state lawmakers are considering proposals that would expand the law to make it easier for someone to seek medical aid in dying.

Since the start of the racing season in late December, a shocking 21 horses have died at the famed Santa Anita Park racetrack in southern California.

It's horrified the racing world and experts say there's no clear answer as to why this is happening.

Santa Anita's owners, The Stronach Group, announced on Tuesday that it was halting racing and training at the park in order to test the main track – a picturesque spot tucked next to the San Gabriel Mountains where the champion racehorse Seabiscuit won big.

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A Northern California congressman is calling on the federal government to take back money it gave the state for high-speed rail development.

With an eye toward schools, health care and saving for a rainy day, top lawmakers unveiled their first crack at a spending plan for the next two years on Thursday — and it didn’t take long for aggrieved factions to begin taking shots.

The $23.7 billion proposal is a framework for how the chairs of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee believe Oregon should use money in the state’s general and lottery funds in the 2019-21 fiscal years.

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The end of most institutionalization in mental healthcare means many people with mental illness live among us. 

But it does not necessarily mean mental illness is any better understood.  Stigma still comes with mental illness, a condition Southern Oregon Compass House in Medford works to change. 

Compass House is a clubhouse for people with recurrent mental illness, and our partner in a monthly segment we call simply Compass Radio. 

Last fall's deadly Camp Fire has brought renewed questions about whether towns in high-risk areas like Paradise, Calif., should even be rebuilt.

Barry Long recently tried to squash those questions immediately as he kicked off a crowded town hall meeting at Paradise Alliance Church.

"One of the first questions we get is, 'Are they really going to rebuild Paradise?' " Long said. "And we say that's not a question. [The Town] Council made an immediate decision [that] we're going to rebuild Paradise."

Last year, we reported the Blockbuster Video store in Bend was the last one remaining in the U.S.  Now the Australian Associated Press reports that with the scheduled closure of that nation’s last store this month, the Bend Blockbuster will be officially the last one on the planet.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams was in the Pacific Northwest Wednesday to highlight the measles outbreak.

Adams was joined by Cerise Wilson, a Vancouver mother who had been hesitant to vaccinate her 15-month-old son, based on advice from friends and information she'd found online. Misinformation on the internet was a focus of the Surgeon General's visit. 

“We are working with Facebook and Google – we’re expecting an announcement from Facebook this week about efforts they’re making to try to help get the correct and accurate information out there,” Adams said.

Secretary of State Dennis Richardson built his political reputation in Oregon’s House of Representatives — cultivating a relentless work ethic and sharp debating skills, while impressing even foes with his fundamental decency.

  

It was in the same House chamber that Richardson was remembered Wednesday, by a bipartisan array of dignitaries who’d gathered to honor the life of Oregon’s 26th secretary of state.

Gov. Kate Brown said Richardson “embodied what it means to be a dedicated public servant.”

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