Mark Friesen
Data Visualization Specialist at Oregon Live (The Oregonian)
Maps, data, journalism @Oregonian | @mujschool grad | MS Cartography/GIS Dev @uwmadisongeog | Your creature comforts aren’t the only things worth fighting for.
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3 days ago |
oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger |Mark Friesen
The Oregonian/OregonLive has updated its searchable database of beneficiaries of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, adding 5,947 beneficiaries who retired last year and another 118 who retired Jan. 1, 2025. The database is now available to all readers. (Click here to go to the database).
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2 weeks ago |
oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger |Mark Friesen
Portia Seely didn’t make the rules in Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System. But like thousands of government workers who were on the job in Oregon decades ago, she hit the lottery when she started taking benefits last year. Seely worked for just under 14 years as a government employee, with a high salary of $31,500 in 1985, state records show. But when she started receiving benefits on Dec.
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1 month ago |
oregonlive.com | Zaeem Shaikh |Mark Friesen
For the first time in four years, the number of shootings in Portland dropped below 1,000 last year – a decline that shows the city may be moving away from the years of record-breaking violence amid the pandemic. Overall, citywide shootings — including those that ended in no injuries or non-fatal injuries — dropped by about 22% in 2024, to 803.
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1 month ago |
oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger |Mark Friesen
The Trump administration 2.0 is slashing jobs from the nation’s federal workforce at a dizzying pace. The purges are ongoing and touch every corner of Oregon. The state has a smaller federal workforce than most, but they’re well paid, and they live in a lot of counties where high-wage jobs are rare.
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2 months ago |
oregonlive.com | Yesenia Amaro |Mark Friesen
The Portland metro area was blanketed with a thin layer of snow on Thursday during a winter storm that’s expected to continue through Friday morning. The Oregonian/OregonLive created a new interactive map that shows how much snow was estimated to have fallen in specific areas across Oregon, Washington and the contiguous United States. The map uses high-resolution forecast data from the National Weather Service and allows users to zoom in on a geographic grid displayed in 2.4 square mile segments.
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