WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: Questions are mounting about Val Hoyle after a bombshell report in Willamette Week revealed Hoyle backed illegally directing over half a million dollars to a program run by a major donor to her campaign. * Hoyle awarded $554,000 in taxpayer funds to a nonprofit run by La Mota CEO Rosa Cazares to launch an apprenticeship program that planned to train just four people. * The nonprofit "had no evid  more

SALEM, Oregon, April 29 -- Gov. Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, issued the following news on April 28, 2023: Governor Tina Kotek announced today that she is accepting applications for a judicial vacancy on the Clackamas County Circuit Court created by the planned retirement of Judge Thomas J. Rastetter. The Governor thanked Judge Rastetter for his dedicated judicial service and announced that she will fill the position by appointment. Judge Rastetter's retirement takes effect June 30, 2023. Interested a  more

SALEM, Oregon, April 29 -- Gov. Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, issued the following news: Governor Tina Kotek and Oregon Housing and Community Services announced that funding contracts for the Homelessness State of Emergency have been signed and funding will start being distributed to the regional multi-agency coordination groups (MAC). On her first full day in office, the Governor declared a homelessness state of emergency and urged the legislature to pass an early investment package to meet specific   more

SALEM, Oregon, April 26 -- Gov. Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, issued the following news on April 25, 2023: Today the Housing Production Advisory Council, which Governor Tina Kotek established to ramp up home construction across Oregon, released its next steps for reaching the state's housing production goals. "Oregonians want healthier and safer communities, and that means we need to build more housing," Governor Kotek said. "Council members have done an amazing job to set the table for this essential  more

SALEM, Oregon, April 29 -- The Oregon State Legislature issued the following news release: House Republican Leader Vikki Breese-Iverson (R-Prineville) and Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp (R-Bend) penned an op-ed in The Oregonian on House Bill 2002 B which knowingly and forcefully strips away parental rights. Read the op-ed here or below: Oregon parents should not have to co-parent with the government The Oregonian By: Tim Knopp and Vikki Breese-Iverson April 28, 2023 Field trip permiss  more

SALEM, Oregon, April 21 (TNSres) -- Williamette University issued the following news: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Willamette Law graduates primarily prepared for the all-important bar exam largely solo. With a robust BEAST program and strong faculty support system, students were still preparing for the bar exam in isolation despite a return to in-person instruction. Though their peers going through the same process, collaborative bar exam preparation was difficult to encourage. As bar exa  more