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Oregon fell just short of hitting a hospitalization metric that would have pushed many counties into a second week of "extreme risk."
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Illustration by Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters; iStock/While the governor’s opponents have burned through most of the money they’ve collected to date, his defenders have some $2.5 million in their war chest. -
In response to allegations of mismanagement, the Oregon Department of Transportation plans to hire an independent arborist or forester to review the state’s post-wildfire hazard tree removal operations.
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Recovered from a career-threatening injury, Miloš Karadaglic has his sights set on two goals: finding the next great classical guitar concerto, and erasing the taboo of injuries among musicians.
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Unsigned musicians: NPR wants to hear from you. Starting May 11, send in a video of you performing one original song at a desk — and you might get to come play behind Bob Boilen's!
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Jenny Friedrichs from Pixabay/Vinyl is back, baby! Well, sort of. It is alive and kicking, and that’s more than can be said for quite some time. In fact, you may well have purchased a vinyl record or received one as a gift. And if you’re new to the format, you’re holding on to something with a long connection to music history.
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Critics widely consider 1971 one of the best years in music history. For NPR's 50th anniversary, public radio stations (including JPR!) turn back the clock and reflect on the year's best tracks.
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Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.
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A huge organic farm that's backed by General Mills is facing accusations that it's doing more environmental harm than good. The project shows the difficulties of delivering on green promises.
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OSU is the first Oregon public university to make this decision.
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The destructive plant disease seems to be on the move again on Oregon's south coast.
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The drought emergency in Oregon's Klamath County could just be the start of a hot, dry summer statewide.
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The faculty union and university administration say a deal could come "any day now," but the union insists that, until then, the strike will continue.
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If signed by Gov. Kate Brown, House Bill 2006 will also make it easier for cities to allow people to sleep in cars in approved “transitional housing” parking lots.
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Millions of young salmon are being trucked, rather than swimming downriver to the ocean.
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Democratic Party leaders unite behind a message that the recall is a desperate Republican plot that is bad for California. But will progressives and Latinos turn out to vote?
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Proponents' single-payer proposal failed to make it through the Assembly this year
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Assembly Bill 65 would give many Californians $1,000/month.
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Mario Gonzalez, 26, died in police custody on April 19. Body camera footage showed police pinning him to the ground for several minutes.
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The city released body camera footage showing the police encounter with Mario Gonzalez. He died after being pinned to the ground.
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