WASHINGTON, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Oregon for more than $2 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs. Through the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS), the Oregon Department of Educ  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 24 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 23, 2023 entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization, Oregon - 2022": In 2022, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 7.5 percent in Oregon, not   more

MEDFORD, Oregon, March 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in Oregon this weekend to highlight Biden-Harris administration investments to support wildland fire preparedness, water management and outdoor recreation opportunities across the state. She was joined by Senator Jeff Merkley, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget Joan M. Mooney, and Department leaders to meet with local,   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on March 23, 2023: A Portland drug dealer with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today after he was arrested transporting methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to Redmond, Oregon. Jason Robert Melcado, 51, a Portland resident, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and four years' s  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 21 -- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency issued the following news release on March 20, 2023: The U.S. Trade and Development Agency announced that it has awarded a grant to PLN Indonesia Power (Indonesia Power) for technical assistance to help develop the country's first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant. Indonesia Power selected Oregon-based NuScale Power OVS, LLC (NuScale) to carry out the assistance in partnership with a subsidiary of Texas-based F  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on March 23, 2023: * * * Congressional Republicans' Plans To Gut Medicaid and the ACA Would Have Devastating Consequences in Oregon Congressional Republicans' have yet to release a budget, but the plans that have been offered and reported so far are a five-alarm fire for American families - especially when it comes to their health care costs. Not only has virtually every Republican budget or fiscal plan over the  more