In a roomful of pedigreed professionals and U.S. legislators, she told her tale of addiction. Three years ago, she was on the streets. Caitlin, who didn’t give her last name, said she held a sign asking for money and shot up heroin. She went to sleep hungry and woke up
WASHINGTON – The anti-fossil fuel movement – “Keep It in the Ground” – has been inching toward the mainstream as prominent Democratic politicians ramp up their commitment to combating climate change. The shift follows an intense and well-funded activist campaign that has mixed closed-door Washington meetings with petition drives during
Today, nine Senators, led by Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), called on the U.S. Department of Education to cut off federal student aid to colleges and universities that bar their students from going to court to pursue claims against their schools. Addressing the same issue, some of the
The Army Corps of Engineers will allocate an additional $9 million this year toward dredging projects at Oregon’s small ports. More than $5 million of those funds will go toward the needs of small ports along Oregon’s South Coast, including $942,000 for the Port of Umpqua. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield,
Salem, Ore. — Oregon’s U.S. senators and representatives are working to get the TSA back in Klamath Falls with a new bill. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with Representatives Greg Walden and Peter DeFazio introduced the “Treating Small Airports with Fairness Act” on Thursday. The act would bring
City of Klamath Falls officials and community leaders are hopeful a bill introduced Thursday by a congressional delegation will bring passenger screening services back to the Klamath Falls airport. The bill, introduced by Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Peter DeFazio,
A House Democrat on Thursday introduced a bill that would ban all future fossil fuel production on federal land. Rep. Jared Huffman’s (D-Calif.) Keep It In The Ground Act would block new leases to tap fossil fuel reserves on federal land and in federal waters in the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans,
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate who is also the ranking member of the Budget Committee, sent a letter to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) with other Senate Democrats decrying the decision to skip hearings as “overt partisanship.” “This year, with no unusual circumstances to prevent us from
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. senators joined four of their colleagues Wednesday in pressing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler about companies charging consumers for equipment they do not use. Consumers of Internet and TV service complain more about billing than another other problem, according to a statement from the
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard helicopter search-and-rescue stations on the Oregon and South Carolina coasts will remain open at least until 2018. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that language keeping the stations open is included in an authorization bill that cleared Congress this week and was sent
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