Ted Sickinger
Investigative Reporter at Oregon Live (The Oregonian)
I'm an investigative reporter at The @Oregonian covering energy, state economic development and other business topics.
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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
How does someone who was a government employee for less than 14 years and never made more than $32,000 a year end up with a pension of more than a quarter million dollars annually? As explained earlier this week when the newsroom updated it online database of retirees in Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System, it comes down to a legacy retirement formula that is still cranking some very lucrative benefits, despite legislative efforts to defuse the time bomb it created.
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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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4 weeks ago |
oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger
With heavy rain, damaging hail, thunderstorms and potential tornadoes forecast this evening in Western Oregon, publicly available emergency alert systems can provide potentially life-saving early warnings about dangerous conditions in your area.
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4 weeks ago |
oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger
President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order Tuesday that would require individuals to provide proof of citizenship to register tovote and prevent states like Oregon from counting mail-in ballots received after election day. Oregon officials are analyzing how specific provisions in the order would impact voting here. But Secretary of State Tobias Read, whose office oversees Oregon elections, said the fundamental aim of Trump’s order was to make it more difficult for people to vote.
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Portland appears to have its own small version of the migrant/asylum crisis. State and county officials seem determined to keep their response, now shuttered, and associated costs under wraps. https://t.co/ZuIlCuiTOy
Did you buy an electric vehicle in the last 12 to 18 months? We’d love to talk tyo you about your motivations, buying experience and life with the vehicle for a story in The Oregonian. Email me at [email protected]. Thanks.
Oregon politician says ‘put your faith in God…you can’t trust doctors,’ when considering COVID vaccination. https://t.co/SxKMYWV4vK