Oregon
> The Jewell School District in Clatsop County plans to “bet the farm” to overturn a habitat conservation plan that threatens the district’s timber funding
- • 100%elkhornmediagroup.com Brown bandits threaten to close City of Union's park bathrooms - Elkhorn Media Group
UNION – The city of Union recently issued a strange, and equally disgusting, notice to ...Read More
- • 100%www.opb.org Effort to tear down Eastern Oregon dam nears finish line after 40 years
Tribal project aims to restore 300 miles of waterway across the region
- www.kptv.com Fred Meyer workers in Portland area vote to strike, accuse grocery chain of unfair labor practices
Workers at Fred Meyer stores in the Portland area voted to authorize a strike this week, accusing the grocery chain of unfair labor practices, the union announced Saturday.
- https:// ballotpedia.org /Oregon_Measure_117,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_Federal_and_State_Elections_Measure_(2024)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dormedas.com/post/541485
> How do you feel about RCV compared to alternatives like STAR? > > Some of the opponents reference a 2022 election in Alaska where they claim Palin caused a spoiler for the other republican, even though she got more first choice votes than he did. Ended up with democrat winning. What do you think of that situation? Is it evidence against RCV since Alaska is considered a red state?
- • 100%www.nbcnews.com Air tanker plane goes missing while fighting Oregon wildfire
The Bureau of Land Management contracted the single-engine plane that was assisting fighting the Falls Fire, authorities said.
- www.opb.org Oregon’s transportation system is due for an overhaul next year. Here’s what you need to know
Finding a solution to the state's road funding problems is one of the highest-profile — and politically tricky — problems lawmakers will consider next year.
Potentially big changes are coming to ODOT's funding model in the next few years. There are holes that the state can't patch.
- www.oregonlive.com Feds award $1.5 billion toward replacement I-5 bridge
The grant brings the total federal allocation to $2.1 billion.
Sorely needed.
100% chance that they'll still need to toll traffic to cover the remaining few billion in costs but it is a good step forward.
- www.opb.org Oregon is first state to join free filing option for federal taxes
The state and federal free tax-filing software programs will be linked to make tax filing less of a painful experience
Get fucked, intuit!
- www.opb.org Only Oregon Republican lawmaker who supports abortion rights is now an Independent
Though his core beliefs haven’t changed, Conrad said the primary made clear his version of moderate Republican politics doesn’t represent the majority of Republican voters in his rural Lane County district. Just less than 1,400 of the more than 8,000 Republican voters who cast ballots in the 12th Ho...
The collapse of the state Republican Party continues.
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EO Media Group is laying off 28 people amid financial troubles.
The La Grande Observer, Blue Mountain Eagle, Hermiston Herald, Wallowa County Chieftain and Baker City Herald will all cease to publish print editions on July 1, according to an announcement from the chain’s publisher, Joe Beach. Subscribers will get copies of the East Oregonian in their mailboxes instead
- • 93%sh.itjust.works Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho - sh.itjust.works
> On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho m...
Legend: Candidate Name (party, %of vote)
Vote tallies current as of 12:30am PST, May 22nd 2024 (Due to lower voter turnout in primaries, most ballots are already counted by this time and these totals are unlikely to change significantly by the election certification date.)
Please see title link to the official Secretary of State page for complete and accurate election results.
Statewide Positions Secretary of State: Tobias Read (D, 71%) will run against disgraced state senator (who is barred from running for senate) Dennis Linthicum (R, 65%)
State Treasurer: Elizabeth Steiner (D, 78%) will run against another disgraced state senator who is barred from running, Brian Boquist (R, uncontested)
Attorney General: Dan Rayfield (D, 76%) will run against Will Lathrop (R, 64%)
Other Notable Contested Races: US Representative, 3rd Dist: Current State Rep Maxine Dexter (D, 50.7%) beats out former Multnomah county commissioner Susheela Jayapal (D, 28.5%)
State Representative, 12th Dist: Darin Harbick (R, 82%) beats out current representative Charlie Conrad (R, 18%) for the republican nomination. No other candidates filed for any other party, so Harbick is the de-facto winner of the position. Conrad faced this primary challenge by Harbick due to his Yes vote on HB2002 that created legal protections for abortion rights and transgender care. Conrad was publicly censured and disowned by the state Republican Party due to his vote not toeing the party line. Read more here.
Personally Irksome: State Senate District 28: Diane Linthicum (R, 59%), the wife and co-conspirator of disgraced senator Dennis Linthicum, beats out current Klamath County Commissioner Dave Henslee (R, 41%) for the republican nomination. No other candidates filed for any other party, so Linthicum is the de-facto winner of the position. Mrs. Linthicum has no real world qualifications to be Senator beyond being the husband of the current disgraced Senator, and has all but openly said she is only running to be the mouth of her husband as to bypass the election restrictions.
- • 55%nypost.com Transgender high school runner in Oregon booed after winning girls’ state title
Aayden Gallagher, of McDaniel High School, was booed while being crowned as the Oregon Girls’ 6A 200-meter state champion.
- lemmy.world My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! - Lemmy.World
In the Oregon Voting Pamphlet. This is not an endorsement, this is a Simpsons joke.
Crosspost. I'm the Oregons Voter Pamphlet.
Not an endorsement.
- • 90%www.opb.org Gov. Tina Kotek abandons nominations to Oregon forestry board after pushback
Nominations to the board that sets state timber policy are often fought over by logging and environmental interests.
- www.oregonlive.com Oregon tax filers will get their money back after TurboTax messed up their returns
TurboTax outlined a 28-step process for customers to amend their tax filings.
- www.oregonlive.com Microchip will furlough Oregon factory workers again as sales plunge 40%
The company won $162 million in federal funding last January to expand its factories.
- • 100%www.theguardian.com Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon
Joshua Alexander Heckathorn, 20, arrested and booked into jail for second-degree burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief
- www.statesmanjournal.com 30 taco vendors set for Northwest Taco Fest at Riverfront Park in Salem: What to know
The family-friendly Northwest Taco Fest will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Riverfront Park on Saturday.
- • 100%prospect.org UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.
Thought the folks on lemmy would like this.
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1by5wkx/boomer_lady_at_the_water_company_asked_if_i_sold/
Ok… picture it… Tillamook, Oregon. Yes, THAT Tillamook. Tiny town with more cows than people and most people who live there are old and crotchety. When you call the water company in the rural areas around town, a lady just answers, “Hello,” in a cranky voice that sounds like she was doing something way more important when you called her. She hand writes your bill on paper note cards and they don’t accept anything but checks as payment.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I call and tell her that I need to disconnect the water or put it in the new person’s name.
Her: “It’ll be easier to just put it in the new person’s name. Do you know it?”
Me: [name that sounds like maaaaaaybe it could Asian, but not really]
Her: [name]? Are they Chinese?
Me: I don’t know, but they’re moving over from Hawaii. So I kinda doubt it.
Her: Well, good. Cause you know all them Chinese around here are all a bunch of drug dealers.
Me: Uhhhhhh.
Her: Alright, I got it down. You’ll get one more bill. [click]
I sat there for a minute with my phone in my had, wondering what the fuck I had just heard. I always felt like everyone in that town had a robe and hood in their closet, but they usually kept it pretty low key. In any event, I sure hope that she gets to see the new people and rest assured that they have pretty, white faces.
Fucking boomers. Especially rural, white boomers.
The idea that 40 years and this house cost than 10x more?
I know there's a lot of other factors. I'm just... Sigh.
From https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1bmqjkw/truck_do_not_stop_list_for_usa_highlighting_where/
- www.oregonlive.com Small Oregon town fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials
The Gervais City Council voted Feb. 20 to fire Mark Chase, the second time in less than eight years that an Oregon city had fired him as police chief.
The independent investigator, southern Oregon attorney David Groff, also reported that Chase had favored some officers over others, made inappropriate sexual comments during a pat down and a training exercise, accused an officer of going easy on migrant workers because she was, in his words, “Hispanic too,” and allegedly told an officer that if he ever shoots a suspect to “put five more in him so he’s gone.”
- fossforce.com Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones - FOSS Force
Oregon's "right to repair" bill that's waiting for the governors signature, has teeth not found in similar legislation from other states.
- www.opb.org 2 Oregon state senators barred from seeking reelection after walkout will seek statewide office
Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, is one of eight state senators prohibited from running again for state Senate, after participating in extended walkouts last year.
- www.oregonlive.com Legislature wraps up work after session focused on housing creation, drug policy, campaign finance limits
On Thursday, key budget bills to deliver substantial increases in some programs and a host of lawmakers’ pet community projects gained approval in both the House and Senate.
- www.oregonlive.com Here’s how much Portland Public School employees made last year
Some principals, teachers made far more than their counterparts.
Pay wall
- • 100%www.oregonlive.com Driver crashed into Portland homeless camp on purpose, killed man, court filing alleges
The responding police officer saw several tents, wood pallets and debris that appeared to have been run over.
Pay wall
- www.opb.org Oregon bill to end daylight saving time fails to clear state Senate
A deadlocked vote in the chamber means Oregon will not be changing its time standard without its neighbors following suit.
- • 100%www.kptv.com Flooded with cases, Portland Police Bureau rarely solves hit and runs, data shows
Only a fraction of hit and run crashes in Portland actually get solved.
- kobi5.com Oregon Supreme Court Measure 113 ruling prevents senators from re-election
SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to uphold voter-approved Ballot Measure 113. This ruling also upholds Secretary of State Lavonne Griffin-Valde’s previous ruling that nine Republican and one Independent state senators who participated in the legislative walkout last ...
Chickens coming home to roost
- www.opb.org In interview, Oregon lawmaker suggests non-Christians are unfit for elected office
The comments from state Rep. E. Werner Reschke, R-Malin, are raising eyebrows as the legislature prepares to convene.
Reschke is such a huge piece of shit.... oh and he was elected fraudulently in the first place. Doesn't deserve the title of Representative.
- www.oregonlive.com Dutch Bros will move some corporate jobs from Oregon to Arizona
The drive-thru chain's headquarters will remain in Grants Pass but new CEO Christine Barone will live near the Arizona office.
They were dead as a company the second they went public. It always always happens this way...
Frankly dutch drinks have been heavily mid for a while anyway.