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 State Hospital is in immediate jeopardy of losing its eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid funding in the wake of a patient's death. -
Hospital staff will check patients immediately upon arrival and ensure life-saving medical equipment is properly maintained. -
The psychiatric hospital is reviewing its in-person visitation policies as Oregon State Police investigate the overdose. -
The winner will run against a three-term Republican incumbent Kim Wallan in House District 6 this November. -
No Democrats are running which means the primary winner will represent the district in Salem for the next four years. -
The agency has subpoenaed nine years of state Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin’s correspondence with constituents, journalists and even Paris Hilton. -
The incumbent is barred from serving another term under a voter-passed law that bars legislators from serving subsequent terms when they have too many unexcused absences. -
Sen. Art Robinson’s son Noah Robinson is running against Rep. Christine Goodwin in a two-way Republican primary in the southern Oregon district. -
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.
