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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Twenty-five states, including Oregon and California, plus the District of Columbia sued over the new rule, saying it would make it harder for blind and seriously ill people to stay insured. -
Oregon’s next governor will have to lead the state through difficult cuts to spending on the Oregon Health Plan. -
Officials have named 5-year-old kindergartener Rhoam Summer and 25-year-old teacher Megan Lambert among the dead. -
A majority of the subjects in the first rigorous study of legal psilocybin reported fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression and more than half ranked the experience among the most meaningful of their lives. -
Measles is a sporadic but growing threat in Oregon, with 32 reported cases — including one hospitalization — so far this year. -
Programs like SNAP and Medicaid are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts. It’s unclear how state leaders will fill the gap. -
The cuts are just the beginning. The hole in the state’s budget will double as federal funding phases out over time. -
While the nonprofit is negotiating with a national carrier over the operation of its Medicare Advantage plan, a majority of its health insurance business will wind down by 2027. -
The decision comes amid changes at the federal level. The Food and Drug Administration recently authorized the sale some fruit-flavored tobacco for adult use. -
The situation in Oregon is not yet on par with major outbreaks in states like Utah and South Carolina. But state health officials say they are worried about cases that are going unreported, and about the spread of the virus to schools and urgent care clinics this week. -
Oregon is the first state to require nonprofit hospitals to figure out if a patient qualifies for free or discounted care before billing them. But a law recently signed by the governor cut hospitals a big break on that rule. -
The state hasn’t seen a major measles outbreak yet. But it may only be a matter of time.
