Peter Wong

2 months ago | theoutlookonline.com | Peter Wong

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2 months ago | salemreporter.com | Ben Botkin |Peter Wong

Oregon lawmakers and food advocates are starting smaller this year in their bid to make cash food benefits available to immigrants who are ineligible under federal rules. After failing to get a bill passed in 2023, they’ve narrowed the group who would be eligible for state aid to children and youth and older people at risk of hunger. In 2023, supporters unsuccessfully lobbied for the passage of a proposal that would have provided state funding to provide food benefits to about 62,000 immigrants.

2 months ago | theashlandchronicle.com | Ben Botkin |Peter Wong |Kate Lamb |Helen Livingstone

Oregon lawmakers and food advocates are starting smaller this year in their bid to make cash food benefits available to immigrants who are ineligible under federal rules. After failing to get a bill passed in 2023, they’ve narrowed the group who would be eligible for state aid to children and youth and older people at risk of hunger. In 2023, supporters unsuccessfully lobbied for the passage of a proposal that would have provided state funding to provide food benefits to about 62,000 immigrants.

Jul 17, 2024 | portlandtribune.com | Peter Wong

Veterans' Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough says his agency is making progress on reducing the rate of veterans’ suicides and improving care for veterans. But speaking with reporters after a keynote address at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, McDonough said the more than 2,400 mental health professionals and veterans’ service advocates acknowledge there’s more to be done. “It is not a mistake that we are doing this conference in Oregon,” McDonough said on Tuesday, July 16.

Jul 17, 2024 | theoutlookonline.com | Peter Wong

Tributes are being paid by nearly every top official in Oregon to Peter Courtney, the longest serving state legislator and Senate president. Courtney died Tuesday, July 16, of complications stemming from cancer, according to an announcement by Gov. Tina Kotek. He had surgery to replace an aortic valve six months ago after he had been diagnosed in 2023 with congestive heart failure. He had already had a kidney removed in 2021 as a result of urethral cancer. He was 81.