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By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Weeks before the end of federal unemployment benefit programs on Sept. 4, Oregon Employment Department officials have shifted their efforts toward helping recipients get jobs — and not necessarily the jobs they had prior to the economic downturn resulting from the coronavirus pandemic last year. “We want to make sure that people looking for work

By JAELEN OGADHOH/Pamplin Media Group The Oregon Liquor Control Commission will officially change its name to the Oregon Liquor & Cannabis Commission after Aug. 2 to reflect its new regulatory responsibilities while retaining its previous acronym. Oregon House Bill 3000 directs the OLCC to work in tandem with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and other state and local agencies to

By BEN BOTKIN/The Lund Report Ninety-four percent of Oregon dentists have received a COVID-19 vaccination. But only half of chiropractors have gotten a jab. And for chiropractic assistants the vaccination rate is 45%. Dentists and chiropractors represent the high and low end of vaccination rates among licensed health care workers in the state, new data show. Many other health care

By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service CORVALLIS – A 17-year study in Oregon, Washington and California found that removal of invasive barred owls arrested the population decline of the northern spotted owl, a native species threatened by invading barred owls and the loss of old-forest habitats. The conservation and management of northern spotted owls became one of the largest and most visible wildlife