Alejandro Figueroa

1 month ago | opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa

In a regular season, commercial fishing boats off of the Oregon Coast set out at the beginning of April to catch Pacific pink shrimp to then be canned or frozen at a local processing facility. This year, those plans got delayed. “They decided to wait and put it off two weeks at least,” said Nick Edwards, the secretary of the Shrimp Producers Marketing Cooperative — he also commercially fishes Dungeness crab and pink cocktail shrimp.

1 month ago | metro.pr | Alejandro Figueroa

El Partido Demócrata cometió un error histórico al ignorar los problemas de salud del presidente Joe Biden y cerrar la posibilidad de una primaria competitiva para la candidatura presidencial de 2024. Esta decisión, que dejó a la entonces vicepresidenta Kamala Harris como la única alternativa viable, resultó en una derrota aplastante frente al Partido Republicano, que no solo aseguró una segunda presidencia de Donald Trump, sino también el control absoluto de ambos cuerpos legislativos.

1 month ago | klcc.org | Alejandro Figueroa

A Linn County judge has invalidated a permit for a proposed chicken farm that would have raised over three million chickens per year east of Salem. The decision, issued Tuesday, follows years of push back from a coalition of local farmers and residents concerned the farm would pollute local drinking water and the nearby North Santiam River. J-S Ranch is the last of three large chicken farms the coalition, Farmers Against Foster Farms, has fought against for almost five years.

1 month ago | opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa

A Linn County judge has invalidated a permit for a proposed chicken farm that would have raised over three million chickens per year east of Salem. The decision, issued Tuesday, follows years of push back from a coalition of local farmers and residents concerned the farm would pollute local drinking water and the nearby North Santiam River. J-S Ranch is the last of three large chicken farms the coalition, Farmers Against Foster Farms, has fought against for almost five years.

1 month ago | opb.org | Alejandro Figueroa

For years, Oregon state agencies, local governments and committees have hashed and rehashed plans to clean up a decadeslong nitrates pollution problem in northern Morrow and Umatilla counties. While nitrate levels continue to rise, there’s one constant: These groups say they need more resources and money to get the job done. Whether they’ll get it in the near future is not clear. “The challenge is this is obviously a long-term and expensive project,” state Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, told OPB.