Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order meant to get agencies to identify barriers to clean energy projects and transmission and find solutions by 2027. -
Oregon has two reserve funds meant to ensure state agencies and services remain whole and public school budgets aren’t throttled. -
Potential cuts across state agencies could mean service reductions for Oregonians and more work for current employees. -
Federal lawyers are asking an appeals court to reverse a recent decision in District Court in Oregon that blocked Trump’s deployment. -
Nuclear is mostly absent from a new energy strategy outlining how the state will meet growing power demand, reduce greenhouse gas pollution. -
Federal lawyers claimed a surge of 115 federal police were needed over the summer to quell protests, but Oregon alleges fewer than 31 were ever on the ground at any given time. -
Despite delivering in past shutdowns, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said it was unable to provide the September jobs report because of the government shutdown. -
Multiple decisions in a lawsuit brought by Oregon and the city of Portland against the federal government are being decided in two different courts. -
U.S. Department of Energy officials under Trump tried put a 10% cap on staff and administrative costs on federally funded sustainable energy and efficiency projects. -
Some in Oregon’s congressional delegation said government shutdown is necessary as President Trump consolidates power, sends troops to American cities, attacks political enemies. -
Oregon and the city of Portland are suing President Donald Trump to block the federal government from deploying hundreds of Oregon National Guard members in an unprecedented crackdown in Oregon’s largest city. -
Nearly 35,000 Oregonians who buy insurance through the state’s Affordable Care Act market will lose all financial help if enhanced tax credits aren’t extended.
