June 2022 - Page 6

 A man the FBI identified as Reed Christensen of Hillsboro pushes a police officer outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Body camera still included in a federal affidavit) By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Five Oregon men face charges for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as public hearings by the congressional committee investigating

 Colette Peters (center), director of the Oregon Department of Corrections director, talks with workers in the Norway prison system during a 2017 research trip to transform Oregon prisons. (Oregon Department of Corrections) By LES ZAITZ/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM – Colette Peters, director of Oregon’s prison system, is poised to become the next director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. She

By the Eugene Register-Guard VENETA — In the fall of 2021, Northwest retail chain Bi-Mart sold all 56 of its pharmacy businesses to Walgreens. The sale left a hole in some rural areas, a gap two former employees of the chain were eager to fill. On May 16, pharmacists Brian Crook and Scott Davis opened Caris Pharmacy in Ray’s Grocery

By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Clackamas County must perform a more extensive post-election audit than other counties because of its ballot-printing issues, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan ordered Friday. After every election, the secretary of state directs each county to hand-count votes in at least two races on randomly selected batches of ballots to compare with machine-tabulated results. Fagan on

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin, D-Corvallis, had experienced what she calls a “bad education day” before she showed up to a June 2 legislative education committee. A parent in her district had gone to Facebook to share that their high school would no longer provide her child with a disability class time after third period for