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Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital ChronicleThousands of people statewide have been at least temporarily housed through Project Turnkey, an Oregon program that turned $125 million into nearly 1,400 new shelter beds, mostly by buying and converting existing hotels and other vacant buildings into shelters. -
Erik Neumann/JPRThe state鈥檚 public universities and community colleges are calling for increased investment in higher education.
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In a recent letter, Kotek asked Biden to protect 鈥淥regon鈥檚 Grand Canyon鈥� and a stretch of the Owyhee River in the southeast of the state. -
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's proposed two-year budget boost spending on three of her core issues 鈥� even if it crowds out some other priorities. -
Gov. Tina Kotek and other top Democrats have been more reserved than their counterparts in many other blue states. Republicans say that鈥檚 a good thing. -
Oregon judges have released four people from prison, finding Gov. Tina Kotek鈥檚 orders that revoked their early release unlawfully violated their rights. -
The document doesn鈥檛 clarify key questions raised earlier this year, when three aides left the governor鈥檚 office after raising concerns about first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson鈥檚 expanding authority. -
Lindsey O鈥橞rien was one of three women to abruptly leave the office in March, after raising concerns about the expanding role of first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson. -
Oregon has ended its experiment with drug decriminalization. Starting Sept. 1, possession of small amounts of illicit substances are once again considered a misdemeanor crime. -
During the COVID pandemic, hundreds of prisoners in Oregon were released early. That led to backlash and Governor Tina Kotek later revoking some of those commutations. One woman in Southern Oregon is still struggling after being sent back. -
Juliana Wallace, who was hired last August to oversee the governor鈥檚 behavioral health initiatives, is the latest staffer to resign from the administration this year. -
Oregon is set to receive nearly $200 million to boost efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the state鈥檚 biggest sectors. -
A spate of lightning storms coupled with hot dry weather has created high-risk wildfire conditions earlier than expected, officials said. -
The proposal aims to narrow district funding gaps caused by rising costs and an end of extra federal funding in September.
