Amelia Templeton
Oregon Public BroadcastingAmelia Templeton is a multimedia reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting, a JPR news partner. She was previously a reporter for EarthFix, an award-winning public media project covering the environment in the Northwest. Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
Amelia has been producing radio since 2004, when she contributed to a student radio podcast of stories from the war in Iraq. Amelia has also worked as a freelance journalist for NPR, American Public Media's Marketplace, and CBS News. From 2007 to 2009 she was a Refugee Policy Analyst with Human Rights First in Washington, D.C.
She has a degree in history from Swarthmore College.
Amelia enjoys hiking, exploring the Northwest, and raising chickens in her backyard.
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Here’s a look at what we know about where to get the shot in Oregon, who can get it — and what's happening with state and federal health agencies that are offering conflicting guidelines. -
The four-state group, which includes Oregon, Washington, California and Hawaii, formed a vaccine policy alliance after concerns about partisanship at the CDC. -
The states' Democratic governors offered few specifics Wednesday as to how they hope the Western Health Alliance could influence which vaccines will be available in their states. -
Rep. Cliff Bentz, representing Oregon's sprawling 2nd Congressional District, met with constituents in The Dalles this week, where they pressed him on Medicaid cuts, timber revenue and the president’s golf game. -
Providence announced it is laying off 128 staff, the second time this year it has eliminated positions in Oregon. -
The U.S. Department of Justice promises more litigation is coming. Top attorneys for Oregon and Washington say their sanctuary laws are on sound legal footing. -
Congressional Republicans have passed their sweeping domestic policy bill. In Oregon, the impacts of the legislation will be significant. -
Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz voted for the version of the reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May, but the version of the bill now awaiting a vote includes new cuts to Medicaid that were not in the House version of the bill. -
Oregon’s state health agency is appealing a ruling that found the agency in contempt. The case concerns people who are accused of crimes but who are too mentally ill to stand trial, often due to psychosis. -
U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson will begin calculating $500 daily fines for each person left waiting in a local jail more than a week before admission to the state’s psychiatric hospital. -
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he wants the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ on his desk by July 4. -
A bill that passed a key committee vote in Congress this week would add a work requirement for some on Medicaid and would jeopardize billions in Medicaid funding for Oregon.
