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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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. -
Nearly half of Oregon’s hospitals lost money on day-to-day operations last year, according to a new 2024 financial report from the Hospital Association of Oregon. -
Without legislative action, taxes that fund Medicaid will sunset in the next two years, leaving a hole in the state’s budget. -
U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., said Wednesday that the nation’s spending on Medicaid programs is unsustainable, and he urged patience as Republicans in Congress formulate their plan to dramatically reduce spending on the health care program. -
Seasonal flu is causing a second peak of illness and hospitalizations in Oregon this month, in what may end up being the worst flu season in the past decade.
