Merkley Monthly: Realizando importantes inversiones en el puerto de Coos Bay
El Mundo de Coos Bay. Transformar el Puerto Internacional de Coos Bay, Oregón, en la primera instalación portuaria totalmente conectada con el ferrocarril en la Costa Oeste representa una gran oportunidad para Oregón y nuestras comunidades costeras. Este proyecto creará empleos sindicalizados bien remunerados y empleos locales permanentes, y aumentará la capacidad portuaria de la Costa Oeste en...
Tres estadounidenses fueron liberados de prisiones en China
NPR. El gobierno de Biden afirma que todos los prisioneros fueron detenidos injustamente y que se están reuniendo con sus familias por primera vez en muchos años. Parecen ser parte de un intercambio de prisioneros. ARI SHAPIRO, PRESENTADOR: Tres estadounidenses han sido liberados de prisiones en China. El gobierno de Biden...
Wyden y Merkley anuncian casi 1 millón de dólares para la restauración del ecosistema en Oregón; el premio de la Fundación Nacional de Pesca y Vida Silvestre beneficiará a los residentes y proyectos a lo largo del río Tillamook.
Pionero del condado de Tillamook, Washington DC—Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley anunciaron hoy una inversión federal de $1.18 millones para la Asociación de Estuarios de Tillamook con el fin de ayudar a reparar la carretera Burton-Fraser a lo largo del río Tillamook, que limita el paso de peces. "Dejar que nuestra infraestructura se desmorone con el tiempo hasta un punto en que...
USDA AGREES TO EXTEND SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAM THROUGH SCHOOL YEAR
On Wednesday, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley applauded the United States Department of Agriculture’s decision to extend school meal waivers through the end of the current school year. A release said the department’s decision follows a pressure campaign by Merkley and his colleagues, which included multiple letters to the USDA urging
Lawmakers set aside $20 million for schools affected by wildfires
Oregon lawmakers have set aside $20 million to help schools damaged in the Labor Day wildfires. The action Monday, Oct. 12, by the legislative Emergency Board will enable the Department of Education to aid up to 33 school districts, three education service districts and a public charter school. The districts
La delegación da la bienvenida a la nueva asistencia para incendios forestales de FEMA
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with Congressman Peter DeFazio and the other Democratic members of the Oregon Congressional Delegation, say more help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the way for those impacted by the recent wildfires. A release said eight counties, including Douglas, will
Wyden-Merkley explora el papel de las líneas eléctricas "vivas" caídas que provocaron muchos incendios...
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today asked the role power lines may have played in the cause or spread of the Beachie Creek fire. In a letter to U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen and Oregon Department of Forestry State Forester Peter Daugherty, Wyden and Merkley wrote, “We
FEMA director, Oregon senators say they’ll help every step of the way
The state’s top lawmakers and the federal government’s top emergency official pledged to work together without partisanship to rebuild Southern Oregon as quickly as possible after the destructive Almeda and South Obenchain fires. They acknowledged, however, that the rebuild won’t necessarily be swift. FEMA director Pete Gaynor said Saturday at
Nearly $1.5 million headed to McMinnville airport
The McMinnville Municipal Airport will receive a $1.46 million federal grant for apron reconstruction, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, both D-Oregon, announced Thursday. The money will pay for reconstruction of 10,500 square yards of existing apron on which aircraft can be parked, boarded, unloaded and refueled. McMinnville’s airport
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