Federal funding

California’s bid for $1.4 billion in broadband funding has been five years in the making. Now the Trump administration says it must give up net neutrality and other state internet rules.

Rogue Community College will offer eligible small manufacturers hands-on instruction designed to improve efficiency, workforce skills and government-contract readiness.

Campus tours, help with college applications and academic counseling. These are just a few forms of college outreach and assistance lost to California students when the U.S. Department of Education canceled over $40 million in funding across the country for more than 100 TRIO programs. The cuts hit rural students the hardest.

Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment removed from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.

While the Trump Administration moves to end federal support for bicycle transportation programs, North State Democrat Mike Thompson is sponsoring a House bill to fund bike safety infrastructure and boost U.S. bicycle manufacturing.

‘Oregon asks for the Utah clock,’ Gov. Tina Kotek wrote in a letter for immediate and robust aid to Oregon farmers and ranchers hit by wildfires.

The Trump administration wants to link emergency preparedness grants for states to its preferences on immigration enforcement and the administration of elections.

In a legal win for California, a federal judge rejected President Trump’s efforts to funnel money away from permanent homeless housing.

The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.

Most Oregon counties are set to receive nearly $100 million from the federal Secure Rural Schools Act after Congress let funding for the 25-year-old program lapse for almost two years.

President Donald Trump’s budget office this week ordered most government agencies to compile data on the federal money that is sent to 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia in what it describes as a tool to “reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds.”

Courts have blocked previous Trump administration attempts to cut funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. Both Oregon and California have statewide sanctuary laws.