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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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. -
An Air National Guard base in Portland and an Air Force base near Spokane are among those that will have longer timelines for forever chemical cleanup. -
Lawmakers must decide if and how to split from the new federal tax cuts that are on track to be replicated at the state level and cost Oregon $888 million in revenue. -
Between April and July, Oregon experienced its fourth driest period since record keeping began in 1895, according to the state’s climatologist. -
The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast old-growth habitat to logging and wildfire. -
The $8 trillion wholesale product distribution industry is challenging a four-year-old Oregon recycling law weeks after the law took effect. -
National research laboratories in Oregon, Washington and Colorado focused on addressing climate change and its impacts and improving energy efficiency and affordability would be gutted under proposed Republican budgets. -
The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. -
A proposal to require utilities cover federal income taxes on settlements paid to powerline-ignited wildfire survivors died and a federal law providing relief is set to expire. -
Environmentalists recently filed a petition to get Oregon voters to guarantee a healthy climate in the state constitution. -
The “doors are open” on a new state office charged with meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s goal of getting 36,000 new homes built in Oregon each year. -
As the clock ran out for adjournment Friday night, Democrats faced a high-profile loss after failing to pass a dramatically watered-down transportation funding package.
