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Bills to help Oregon schools fund years of summer learning await governor’s signature

4 days ago | ijpr.org | Alex Baumhardt

Oregon schools will soon have something they’ve never had before: more than a year to plan for summer school with the promise of consistent funding from the state Legislature. But it comes with one condition: The money should be spent on programs that get students reading and writing at grade level.
Becoming The Attachment Theory was a 'sonic trust fall' for Sharon Van Etten

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Stephen Kallao

Sharon Van Etten has made a series of impressive solo albums, but for her latest project, Van Etten's backing band got top billing. Enter: The Attachment Theory, featuring longtime collaborators Devra Hoff, Teeny Lieberson and Jorge Balbi. Van Etten says it all started with something she almost never does: studio jams. "It happened pretty naturally," she says.
California lawmakers expedite over $170 million in fire prevention funds

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Megan Myscofski

The funds are going to six conservancies across California, including in the Los Angeles area and the Sierra Nevada. “With this latest round of funding, we’re continuing to increase the speed and size of forest and vegetation management essential to protecting communities,” Newsom said in a statement.
CalRecycle begins enforcement on plastic foam foodware ban

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Manola Secaira

A law passed in 2022 required producers of plastic foam foodware to demonstrate a 25% recycling rate to continue using the material by 2025. Since that target was not met, CalRecycle says these producers are now prohibited from selling or distributing it.
'Permanent extinction event’: Humboldt farmers struggle to survive legal cannabis market

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Justin Higginbottom

Galen Doherty’s family has lived in southern Humboldt County since the 1800s. For the last five generations, they’ve worked in different industries, riding out booms and busts: from old-growth logging and salmon fishing to Redwood land conservation and salmon habitat restoration. “Whatever we got to do to get by, to stay here. Because we like it here,” Doherty said. Now as owner of Whitethorn Valley Farm, he grows cannabis on a quarter-acre parcel of his family’s original homestead.
3 major gun bills advance in Oregon legislature

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Bryce Dole

Three bills that would alter Oregon’s gun laws are advancing to the floor of both legislative chambers. Members of the House and Senate judiciary committees this week voted along party lines to move the bills forward, with Democrats using their majority power in the face of Republican pushback. The bills would create a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, ban rapid-fire devices, initiate a state licensing program for gun dealers and lay the framework to implement Ballot Measure 114.
Head Start parents and staff brace for possible federal cuts

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Jane Vaughan

Local Head Start programs are preparing for potential closures after some regional offices were recently shut down, part of the Trump administration’s reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services. Now, local programs say their concern isn’t that their funding has been cut, but that they won’t be able to access it, since there aren’t regional staff to approve or process it.
California voter ID bill voted down at the state Capitol

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Laura Fitzgerald

Assembly Bill 25 would have required Californians to show documented proof of citizenship, like a passport or birth certificate, in order to register to vote. It also would have made voters show a government-issued ID at polling places and list the last four digits of a government ID number on a vote by mail ballot. “We lack proper review of citizenship eligibility when registering individuals to vote,” said Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio who authored the bill.
‘A confusing time': Federal firings leave utility assistance programs uncertain

2 weeks ago | ijpr.org | Justin Higginbottom

This month the Trump administration fired all 25 staff overseeing the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The federally-funded program, created by Congress in 1981, helps low-income families around the country pay for utilities like heat or electricity. It also provides assistance for weatherizing homes. The staff overhaul has worried county-level providers tasked with providing those federal funds.
Thousands of Oregonians book appointments as REAL ID deadline approaches

2 weeks ago | ijpr.org | Bryce Dole

State transportation officials said Monday that more than 1.3 million Oregonians have so far acquired a REAL ID in the nearly five years since the state first started issuing them. Every traveler over the age of 18 must have a REAL ID, passport or other federally approved form of identification to board a domestic flight May 7. In all, 17,660 REAL IDs were issued last week, compared to nearly 6,500 that were issued in the same week last year, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.