Lynne Terry
Editor | Oregon Capital ChronicleLynne Terry has more than 30 years of journalism experience. She reported on health and food safety in her 18 years at The Oregonian, was a senior producer at Oregon Public Broadcasting and Paris correspondent for National Public Radio for nine years. She has won state, regional and national awards, including a National Headliner Award for a long-term care facility story and a top award from the National Association of Health Care Journalists for an investigation into government failures to protect the public from repeated salmonella outbreaks.
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The only pediatrician 鈥� and medical doctor 鈥� in the state Legislature treats vulnerable children in her practice and now she鈥檇 like to help them as a policymaker. -
Hunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic, but then COVID hit and during the following two years, the number of Oregonians struggling to put food on the table rose, a recently released Oregon State University study found. -
The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Division has discovered several dozen more voter registrations of non-U.S. citizens in its system as part of reviews ordered by Gov. Tina Kotek in late September. -
Analysts are predicting 90% among Republicans and Democrats, with about 65% for nonaffiliated voters. -
Crews are fighting three new blazes and are focused on about six fires where evacuation orders are in place. -
The price of individual and small business health insurance plans will jump again next year 鈥� and two by double digits that could leave people paying nearly $700 more a year for their monthly premiums. -
The proposal comes after former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have both floated plans that would exclude taxes on tips for a variety of workers. -
The lawsuit, joined by eight states and Washington D.C., alleges that RealPage鈥檚 software helps landlords keep rental prices high, even in a down market. -
The Department of Environmental Quality issued an alert Wednesday for southern and central Oregon, where wildfires are filling the air with smoke. -
Wildfires burning across much of the western U.S. and Canada are causing smoke to stretch across parts of central, eastern and southern Oregon. -
The Oregon Department of Transportation said Friday that Oregonians who travel this weekend and in the days ahead should prepare for road closures. -
About 80% of Medicaid members in Oregon have retained coverage since a nationwide unwinding began compared to less than 4% in Texas, which was last.
