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Oregon mayors, city officials lobby legislators Wednesday for more money for homelessness

January 25, 2023
 Local government officials participate in the League of Oregon Cities’ City Day at the Capitol event at the Salem Convention Center.  By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Hundreds of mayors, city councilors and city employees from around Oregon descended on Salem on Wednesday to lobby lawmakers for hundreds of millions of dollars for homelessness and housing shortages. Local leaders

Unemployment rate in Lincoln County continues to increase

January 25, 2023
Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continues to rise, reaching 5.8 percent in December – up more than a full percentage point since July. The Oregon Employment Department said Tuesday that Oregon’s statewide unemployment rate for December was 4.5 percent, the fifth consecutive month it has risen from its low of 3.5 percent last July. The national average was 3.5

Oregon Senate Republicans describe hopes for bipartisanship but won’t stop delaying tactics

January 25, 2023
Senate Republicans Lynn Findley of Vale, from left, Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls, Dick Anderson of Lincoln City, Tim Knopp of Bend, Kim Thatcher of Keizer and Daniel Bonham of The Dalles spoke Tuesday about their legislative priorities.  By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon Senate Republicans described hopes of a bipartisan legislative session Tuesday – but they also

Portland-based vacation rental management company lays off 1,300 employees

January 25, 2023
By Oregon Public Broadcasting Portland-based Vacasa laid off about 1,300 workers on Tuesday or roughly 17% of its workforce. The cuts include the elimination of 240 jobs in Portland. The vacation rental management company went public in 2021, but its stock has slumped. Vacasa is trying to shrink its expenses as it seeks to become profitable. “It is clear to me

National environmental group asks federal agency to speed up plans to reintroduce sea otters to Oregon coast

January 25, 2023
By ZACH URNESS/Salem Statesman Journal The Center for Biological Diversity wants the federal government to get moving on a plan to reintroduce sea otters on the Oregon coast. The national environmental group submitted a petition Thursday, under the Endangered Species Act, to reintroduce the sea otter to their native habitat from the San Francisco through Oregon. The idea of returning otters

Oregon’s public defense agency formulating plan on how to spend $10 million to improve legal representation

January 24, 2023
By CAYLA MIHALOVICH/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Officials have approved a plan for spending $10 million of emergency funding to address Oregon’s public defender crisis, which has left hundreds of people languishing in jails or in the community awaiting legal representation. Last month, the Joint Legislative Emergency Board allocated $10 million to help the state hire more public defenders. It asked the

Oregon Department of Justice, law firms open free legal advice hotline about abortions

January 24, 2023
By The Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The Oregon Department of Justice has launched a hotline to provide free legal advice to people with legal questions about abortions. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s Monday announcement came the day after the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v Wade, which guaranteed abortion rights nationwide until the court

Lack of quorum again stymies Yachats fire district board

January 24, 2023
YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board has been unable to hold its first meeting of the year — and decide how to give firefighters enough of a raise to counteract inflation — for lack of a quorum Monday and earlier this month. The five-member board discussed a cost-of-living increase for employees in December but asked for more

Yachats “Swifty” group seeks funding to expand its aid to migrating birds, builds website, launches video

January 24, 2023
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — While their winged tenants are wintering in warmer climes, a local group of bird-lovers is expanding to provide more nesting boxes for some migrating species. Thanks to the efforts of SWIFTY — Swallows In Flight to Yachats — tree swallows, violet-green swallows, chickadees and purple martins may find more housing options in the spring

Fire destroys abandoned house Sunday north of Yachats

January 23, 2023
YACHATS – U.S. Highway 101 three miles north of Yachats was closed for nearly two hours Sunday night as firefighters from three departments fought a blaze that destroyed an abandoned house. The one-story house at 7610 N. Highway 101 had been neglected for years and half of it was covered with heavy brush, the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District
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