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Appeals court upholds Gov. Brown's clemency powers, denies lawsuit from Lane DA, others
The Register-Guard via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOregon’s second-highest court found Gov. Kate Brown lawfully used her clemency powers when granting...
Outgoing Oregon governor reflects on turbulent final term
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOregon's Democratic Gov. Kate Brown faced unprecedented challenges in her final term: COVID-19, a...
There's no sign of widespread COVID-19 mandates in the US. Republicans are warning of them anyway
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAs Americans fend off a late summer COVID-19 spike and prepare for a fresh vaccine rollout,...
What happened in the year since an Oregon farmworker died in extreme heat
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe day before he died, Sebastian Francisco Perez turned 38. He went to dinner with his nephew,...
In an America divided by abortion, guns and COVID, California and Newsom seize the moment
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGov. Gavin Newsom hugs his wife, Jennifer, at a Sacramento news conference at which he denounced the...
In the ‘Crosshairs’: Beleaguered Superintendents Face COVID Wave of Firings
The 74 via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJust months after COVID closed schools nationwide, Carlee Simon took over the Alachua County Public...
Opinion: Jimmy Carter, Iowa politics, and the demise of progressive evangelicalism
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn October 1975 a dispatch from Ames rocked the political world. “Jimmy Carter of Georgia appears to...
Chicago could become largest US city to independently abolish tipped wage under Mayor Brandon...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoChicago would be the largest American city to move on its own to abolish a subminimum wage for...
Posthaste: Wealth is no longer about rich versus poor, but homeowner versus renter
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoGood morning! Homeownership, long considered the great wealth equalizer, might actually lead to...
Next front in the attack on affirmative action: State diversity programs
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTyler Lynn, a Spanish instructor in Eagle Point, Ore., says he’s out $192 because a state rebate to...