Ben Botkin
Oregon Capital ChronicleBen Botkin covers justice, health and social services issues for the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Ben Botkin has been a reporter since 2003, when he drove from his Midwest locale to Idaho for his first journalism job. He has written extensively about politics and state agencies in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
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Oregon Health & Science University is expanding its program that prepares students for nursing careers on an accelerated schedule to Bend. -
Spokespeople for Gov. Tina Kotek and the corrections agency declined to answer questions about the allegations of abuse and poor conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. -
AllCare, which serves about 70,000 people in southern Oregon, highlighted the lack of affordable housing in its region. -
An Oregon nonprofit that advocates on behalf of incarcerated people warned legislative leaders and Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday that it may go to court to block the Legislature’s drug addiction proposal. -
The sweeping drug addiction proposal now heads to the Senate for a final vote before the session ends. -
Providers have "shovel ready" projects, and the Legislature allocated millions last year but the health authority has yet to make any funding decisions -
Lawmakers heard from a stream of people about changing Measure 110. -
The Oregon Medical Board needs to do more to fairly and consistently discipline the health care professionals it regulates, a new Oregon Secretary of State audit found. -
Democratic lawmakers are working on a separate proposal to address the state’s drug addiction crisis.
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The Coalition to Fix & Improve Measure 110 says it will fix the “administrative error.” -
The incarcerated woman alleges she faced retaliation in the prison after a corrections officer was charged with sexually abusing her.
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The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency’s largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit.
