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Lucille McNamara

Lucille McNamara is a Daily Tidings reporter with 27 years of journalism experience, covering Oregon public safety, crime and courts, plus statewide policy and community impact stories including housing, education, health, and immigration. She previously worked at The Star.
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Oregon’s Hottest New Career Is Where AI Meets Clean Energy

Lucille McNamara Jul 7, 2025

Renewable Energy Analysts is the top AI career identified by Oregon Managers, a professional organization for local government managers in Oregon, following a survey of 3,003 decision-makers. The organization notes that while most public…

Business

These Oregon Small Towns Are the First to Reveal Financial Strain Before the State’s Economy Shifts

Lucille McNamara Jul 6, 2025

While Wall Street watches global markets as an indicator of economic stress, businesses on the main streets of small, local communities watch grocery bills and gas pump prices. They are the precursors of financial change. To uncover the…

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Construction Starts Tomorrow to Restore Portland’s Riot-Damaged Elk Sculpture and Historic Fountain

Lucille McNamara Jul 6, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — Crews begin work tomorrow (Monday) on reinstating Portland’s iconic elk, badly damaged during the 2020 riots, to its platform in downtown’s Southwest Main Street. The city workforce will return the sculpture and an…

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Oregon Judge Dismisses Privacy Lawsuit Over Student Tracking in Beaverton Schools

Lucille McNamara Jul 5, 2025

The father of a 13-year-old student at Mountain View Middle School in Beaverton failed to obtain a temporary restraining order to halt the school's use of digital hall passes. Jeffrey Myers appeared in U.S. District Court in Portland on…

Crime & Courts

Medford Park Shooting Leaves Suspect Hospitalized as Sheriff’s Office Takes Over Case

Lucille McNamara Jul 5, 2025

MEDFORD, Ore. — The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has taken over the investigation of an officer-involved shooting at Hawthorne Park in Medford on Friday. The officers involved in the incident were not injured. However, a suspect was…

Oregon Named One of the Riskiest States in America for Financial Cybercrime

Lucille McNamara Jul 5, 2025

Oregon is one of five states ranked as the riskiest for financial cybercrime, according to Cloudwards, an online platform that provides information, reviews, and comparisons of cloud-based technologies. Oregon ranks…

Crime & Courts

Oregon Foster Home Operator Admits Stealing Medicaid Funds While Neglecting Disabled Residents

Lucille McNamara Jul 4, 2025

MARION COUNTY, Ore. — Brian Woodring, the former operator of an adult foster home for individuals with developmental disabilities, has admitted guilt in Marion County Circuit Court to several felony offenses, including criminal mistreatment…

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Audit Finds Oregon’s DMV Voter Errors Too Small to Sway Elections but Points to System Flaws

Lucille McNamara Jul 4, 2025

An independent audit into Oregon’s DMV program which automatically registers motor vehicle owners as voters has found that the number of potentially ineligible registered individuals is too small to affect the outcome of an election.…

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Federal Judge Orders Release of Mexican Asylum Seeker Unlawfully Detained by ICE in Portland

Lucille McNamara Jul 3, 2025

The immediate release of a 24-year-old Mexican, arrested by masked ICE agents outside a Portland courtroom and placed in a detention center, has been ordered by a federal judge. Identified as Y-Z-L-H, the man has been detained in an…

Crime & Courts

Honduran National in Portland Faces Federal Trial Over Fatal Fentanyl Sale

Lucille McNamara Jul 3, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Honduran national living illegally in Portland appeared in federal court yesterday charged with distributing fentanyl that resulted in the death by overdose of an unnamed adult male in January 2024. Jury Trial…

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