Lauren Dake
Reporter & Producer | OPBLauren Dake is a political reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Lauren spent nearly a decade working as a print reporter. She’s covered politics and rural issues in Oregon and Washington. She’s spent time in a maximum-security prison in Bogota, Colombia (for a story!) and sat in a sweat lodge on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
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Several members of Congress are requesting the Office of Inspector General investigate youth congregate care and residential facilities, including those operated by a company Oregon previously sent dozens of foster youth to for treatment. -
Gov. Kate Brown orders the Oregon State Health Authority to continue to release detailed data.
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Gov. Kate Brown is using her executive authority to close three Oregon prisons, a move her office said would save the state more than $44 million dollars.
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Lawmakers heed the advice from Oregon State Police and FBI in delaying gathering for the 2021 session.
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Brown gives school districts greater flexibility in choosing whether to reopen
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29 of Oregon's 36 counties will have ongoing restrictions in an attempt to curb the virus
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With two years until the next gubernatorial race, it’s already easy to tick off more than a handful of well known Democrats who have been rumored to be interested in the state’s top job. On the Republican side, even party loyalists have been reticent to share a list of candidates for governor.
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Shemia Fagan has recaptured the last statewide elected office held by a Republican in Oregon, becoming the next secretary of state.
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The secretary of state oversees elections, is next in line to be governor and could play a major role in redistricting
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Election officials are working to ensure Oregonians can still vote if they have been evacuated or lost their home in the fires
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Before being released, the inmates must take a COVID-19 test. Adults in custody who are showing symptoms or who have tested positive will not be released.
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As the number of COVID-19 infections continue to rise, Gov. Kate Brown is once again expanding Oregon’s statewide face mask policy and is ordering all restaurants and bars to close at 10 p.m.
