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Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.
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Oregon’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates both welcomed new CEOs recently. OPB "Think Out Loud” host Dave Miller recently spoke to both about how the organization is responding to stricter abortion laws in other states.
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A higher minimum wage for health care workers that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law is set to take effect in two weeks, but he is racing to delay it because of its potential impact on the state budget deficit.
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County officials across Southern Oregon say they’re desperate to fund law enforcement. But measures on the ballot this month to raise taxes are a hard sell in a region once reliant on timber revenue.
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Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system.
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At a Friday morning meeting of the Mount Shasta Union School District School Board, the district's superintendent and two board members resigned.
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The state’s multibillion-dollar shortfall shapes which spending bills survived the ‘suspense file’ hearings by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees.
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The budget includes a reduction of over 32 full-time employees, mostly through attrition and reassignment.
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Federal data show that Oregon’s exemption rates are second-highest in the country, behind only Idaho.
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If you’re still waiting to return your ballot for the Oregon primary election, use an official drop box. Recent changes to mail processing in Oregon have led to questions about the speed of the postal service.
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JPR News crews gathers to examine the week's big stories
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Meet Flora, the Farm Bus, a fully licensed mobile educational kitchen and greenhouse, owned and operated by teacher/farmer Michelle Calascibetta.
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The proposed cuts could jeopardize plans to build the largest public broadband network in the United States.
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The money is part of $600 million in opioid settlement funds the state is expected to receive over the next two decades.