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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Following a bumpy few months for the Oregon Department of Forestry and the abrupt resignation of its leader, Kotek wants to pick the next state forester. -
Democratic and Republican U.S. legislators from Western states are joining forces to get the 20-years-old Secure Rural Schools bill reauthorized. -
Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to keep, update or repeal it. -
Over the past few years, the Oregon Legislature has responded to industry-wide labor shortages in manufacturing, tech and health care by directing millions of dollars to workforce development programs. Now, education advocates say it should do the same for child care and preschool teachers. -
The Ashland lawmaker wants the map to designate the risk level of broad areas rather than naming the risk of individual properties. -
Oregon is in the bottom half of states in reading and math scores among fourth and eighth graders in the “nation’s report card.” -
Officials say they are prepared for potentially volatile federal policies and funding under the Trump administration. -
Watchdog groups are calling for the state to require more transparency from lobbyists who work for both fossil fuel companies and governments and environmental groups fighting against climate change. -
The Seventh Oregon Climate Assessment from state and federal scientists and researchers evaluates the what the future could look like based on increasingly precise forecasts. -
Five counties in eastern Oregon will get federal help paying for recovery from historic wildfires that destroyed rangeland, homes and other structures in central and eastern Oregon, hitting five counties the hardest. -
From a historic election to record wildfires to drug recriminalization, 2024 was a big year for state government and political news in Oregon. -
Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill, which passed the Senate but failed to garner Republican support to pass in the House.
