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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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. -
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. -
The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency’s largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit. -
A Malheur County woman is appealing a federal judge’s ruling against her lawsuit that challenges state adoption policies for transgender children on the basis of religious freedom. -
Five Republican senators are suing to overturn Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s ruling that they can’t run for reelection. -
Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, plans to introduce a bill in the 2024 session to provide funding for addiction medication, screenings and more. -
Four of Oregon’s largest hospital systems announced on Thursday they have appealed a federal court ruling that dismissed their lawsuit alleging the state violates the civil rights of Oregonians with mental illnesses by giving them inadequate care.
