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Hillary Borrud

Salem

Investigative Reporter at Oregon Live (The Oregonian)

Reporter covering state politics + government @oregonian. @IRE_NICAR member. I ♥ data.

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  • Yamhill County deletes mention of immigration enforcement as draft agreement for jail use raised concerns

    1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud

    Yamhill County officials said on Thursday they will not and never had plans to house people detained by federal immigration agents at the county jail, after community members raised concerns that a draft of a fast-tracked agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service included references to immigration authorities.

  • Advocates for Oregon foster kids hit by funding cuts from Trump administration, Congress

    2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud

    A statewide program that provides volunteer advocates for children in Oregon foster care is dealing with funding cuts on two fronts, after the U.S. Department of Justice last week abruptly terminated grant funding to its national affiliate. Court Appointed Special Advocates in Oregon has already been hit with a $1.7 million cut in the federal budget that the Republican controlled Congress passed in mid-March, said Oregon CASA Network state director Kat Hendrix.

  • Oregon officials failed to follow basic public contracting rules when approving $32.3 million for wildfire housing, review finds

    1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud

    Oregon’s housing agency failed to follow basic public contracting requirements on multiple no-bid deals worth nearly $32.3 million that were supposed to help rebuild communities devastated by the 2020 Labor Day wildfires, a state review found. The contract that “raised the most concern” was with the modular housing brokerage that was supposed to deliver 140 homes for wildfire survivors in two hard-hit areas, a top official wrote.

  • A small Veterans Affairs clinic just closed in Oregon. Is the Trump or Biden administration to blame?

    1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud

    Oregon’s U.S. senators are raising concerns about the “shadowy” closure of a small Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in rural Wallowa County, where veterans now face lengthy drives for in-person care at other VA clinics. In a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on Thursday, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley wrote that they were worried Monday’s closure of the VA clinic in Enterprise could create “critical service gaps ...

  • Trump just gutted a tiny federal agency that supports libraries. Here’s what it means for Oregon

    1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud

    Federal funding could be cut off for some rural Oregon library services and a long-running statewide reading competition for elementary, middle and high school students, as President Donald Trump works to eliminate a small federal agency that routed money to states for libraries and museums. Money is also in jeopardy for a state library division that assists libraries at schools and other locations around the state, said Oregon’s State Librarian Wendy Cornelisen.

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