Lynne Terry
Senior Contributor | The Lund ReportLynne is a veteran health care reporter and previously served as editor-in-chief of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, editor of The Lund Report and was a health reporter at The Oregonian/OregonLive, where she worked 18 years. She's also been a senior producer at Oregon Public Broadcasting and Paris correspondent for National Public Radio. She's won state, regional and national awards for her health care coverage.
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A legislative proposal that died in subcommittee would have helped 62,000 undocumented immigrants, including many farmworkers. -
A lawyer for Oregon Recovers said in a letter that restaurant owner and Commissioner Kiauna Floyd has a conflict of interest. -
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether endangered Oregon beetle needs federal protectionIn 2020, a nonprofit environmental group focused on biodiversity petitioned federal authorities to protect a bug-eyed beetle that used to thrive on West Coast beaches but now only exists in certain sites, mainly in Oregon. -
A bill that would allow Oregonians to pump their own gas anywhere in the state edged closer to passage this week with its second public hearing in the Legislature. -
A House proposal would create a marketing board to promote whiskey, vodka, gin and other Oregon-crafted spirits. -
A month after lawmakers killed a bill that would have raised beer and wine taxes, state officials are considering increasing a tax on hard liquor. -
Several dozen cases are slowly moving through the appeals process and a few have been sent to collections. -
The money, approved early in the legislative session, will build more shelter beds, help prevent evictions, devote resources to rural counties and help homeless youth. -
All of Oregon’s congressional members – except Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz – are behind a proposal to restore some tribal rights over land -
Despite a 2017 pay equity law, two studies of the state payroll and two rounds of equity raises, women and people of color working for the state of Oregon still earn far less than white men, according to a report released Tuesday. -
Oregon’s senior U.S. senator and the state’s attorney general, both Democrats, say they will do everything possible to keep the abortion pill on the market. -
Dozens of advocates brought their personal tales of hunger to a state Senate committee hearing this week in hopes of persuading lawmakers to support proposals to give food aid to low-income residents who are excluded from federal benefits.
