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Oregon Hospitals Are Trying to Revive a Lawsuit Against The Oregon Health Authority
Just over a year ago in September, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon State Hospital (OSH) were both sued by three hospitals. It was alleged that the two had failed to provide room for patients who had been admitted through civil…
Oregon Ends Contract With Dynamic Life, a Nonprofit Earning Millions by Putting Foster Kids in…
Following a wave of mounting criticism, Oregon’s Department of Human Services has just canceled its contract with a religious nonprofit that had been placing foster children into short-term rentals. Said religious nonprofit was being paid…
Measure 114, a Voter-Approved Gun Safety Law, Has Been Ruled as Violating the State Constitution by…
When it comes to United States law, Americans tend to take all things enshrined within the Constitution as completely set in stone. This also extends to state constitutions. However, what happens when the majority of voters vote to put in…
Dogs in Certain US States are Getting an Unidentified Respiratory Illness
These days, all we want to do is to be able to protect our pups, but as a new unidentified respiratory illness emerges from the woodworks, vets and parents everywhere are scrambling to find out just what’s going on. Dogs are getting sick…
Toxic Vapors Could Kill Thousands If an Earthquake Were to Hit Portland, Report Says, Prompting…
It almost feels as though the amount of natural disasters is starting to climb as time goes on, and that’s because it is. Climate change has done its part so that natural disasters are becoming more of a constant than they have ever been.…
Oregon to get billions of dollars from Intel and the Federal Government
The state of Oregon is going benefit from US$ billions investment over the next few years as Intel, the chip manufacturer, recently announced that it will make significant investment in its Oregon operations. This will result in thousands…
The 5 Highest Paying (and Lowest Paying) College Degrees You Can Get in the Portland Metro Area
We live in a period of time where we have to ask ourselves if going through years of higher education is even worth it. We go to college with the idea that being able to score a college degree will ensure a secure, higher paying job, but…
What You Need to Know About 2024 Medicare and How It May Affect Social Security Cost of Living…
Starting January of 2024, tens of millions of older folk will be seeing a decent increase in their Social Security benefits from the COLA, or cost-of-living adjustment. It will be a 3.2% raise as an adjustment for the rise in the average…
Ashland Has Come Up With an 8-Year Strategic Housing Plan, and Here’s What It Looks Like
Earlier this year, Oregon’s House of Representatives passed a bill that requires cities of at least 10,000 people to think up a housing strategy plan for the next eight years. The first to be approved in the state was Ashland, who came up…
Audit Finds That Failures in Oregon’s Mental Health System Caused Delayed/Reduced Care for Those…
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has been under fire ever since a whistleblower contacted the Oregon Secretary of State’s hotline to report wasting money and outright fraud within the government.
More precisely, the anonymous man’s…