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Over the past decade, a drug that many people with diabetes depend on to live — insulin — has skyrocketed in price. One study found that cost nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013. Politicians and activists in Washington, D.C., and the local area have paid special attention to the plight during November,

Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Monday, Nov. 4, a nearly $8.5 million electric infrastructure investment in West Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc., a Vernonia-based co-op which serves communities throughout Columbia, Yamhill, Tillamook, Washington and Clatsop counties. Merkley serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee,

Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced legislation to end “exorbitant price hikes” on insulin. The End Price Gouging for Insulin Act comes as a new report highlights the high cost of insulin in Northwest Oregon. The report, produced for U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, found that Medicare beneficiaries in the region pay more than $1,000 more per year in

On Thursday Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced legislation that would ensure counties receiving Secure Rural Schools funds cannot spend federal resources on any activity related to lobbying. The release from the Senators said their bill is to ensure that SRS funds remained dedicated to their intended purpose

With all the attention being paid to the whistle-blower who set off the impeachment inquiry and the anonymous “senior Trump administration official” whose book was published this month, a story about yet another insider slamming the Trump administration has been almost entirely ignored. This one is a damning moral, and legal,