March 2025 - Page 6

 Oregon’s Congressional Democrats met with hundreds of federal employees at a town hall Monday to discuss the impacts of President Trump’s directives cutting agency employees and budgets. By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Among the more than 300 people who attended a Portland town hall Monday for federal employees were veterans’ health care workers, climate and agricultural scientists and government

By Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon’s 197 school districts will get nearly $77 million in additional funding this year from revenues generated from leases and industry permitted on state lands. That’s a record payout from the Common School Fund and $2.5 million more than schools received from the fund in 2024, officials from the Oregon Department of State Lands announced last

By ASHLEY MURRAY/States News Service WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Monday denied the Trump administration’s emergency effort to block the reinstatement of federal employees at six government agencies. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected the government’s request to stay a Northern California district court’s March 13 ruling ordering the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury and Veterans Affairs