Hillary Borrud
Investigative Reporter at Oregon Live (The Oregonian)
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1 month ago |
oregonlive.com | Hillary Borrud
A top administrator at Portland Public Schools on Friday defended sending hundreds of unused laptop cases purchased during the pandemic to the dump. Debra Giles, interim chief of technology at the district, said in a statement that the cases were left over from a 2021 order, with most of the cases — more than 17,000 — distributed to schools. “The remaining surplus sat unused for years,” Giles said.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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 ...
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