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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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. -
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.
