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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Republicans say Democrats are using the bill as a bargaining chip to get Republicans to vote on redirecting $1 billion of kicker tax to fund wildfire mitigation work. -
Hundreds of federal employees managing the nation’s main hydropower corridor have retired, resigned or been released due to Trump orders and hiring freezes. -
Oregon is kept from millions promised by the U.S. Department of Transportation to get more electric vehicle chargers installed statewide. -
Oregon lawmakers are considering at least six bills right now that would limit for what, when and for whom private electric and gas companies can raise rates. -
A new partnership between the Oregon State Fire Marshal and a wildfire nonprofit could help Oregonians harden their homes and keep insurance. -
‘Big One’ coupled with rising ocean could leave many in Northwest living in flood zones, study findsMore than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the researchers found. -
Oregonians hoping to buy an electric vehicle this spring could get thousands of dollars from the state to help pay for it. -
Data centers, electrifying transit and buildings and producing hydrogen will drive demand, according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. -
Undergrad tuition to rise again at all Oregon’s public universities, up nearly 30% from a decade agoThe rising cost of college is being driven by labor costs, inflation and historic disinvestment in higher education by the Oregon Legislature. -
The Oregon Legislature passed two bills to provide consistent funding to summer learning programs and to ensure they boost student academic outcomes. -
.At a roundtable hosted by Gov. Tina Kotek, more than a dozen business leaders described a dire situation under President Trump’s tariff wars. -
Ten Oregon projects are among more than 470 across the country stuck in limbo, with recipients denied access to millions in funding.
