State Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland recapped the 2025 legislative for constituents during a Sunday, Aug. 3 town hall and ice cream social in Talent.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is suing the federal government over a provision in Congressional Republicans’ massive tax and spending law that prevents Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for health care services at its clinics.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, along with state Rep. Pam Marsh and state Sen. Jeff Golden, will hold a town hall about federal cuts at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, at Southern Oregon University.
A 30% increase to the Oregon labor bureau’s budget will help the agency hire 50 investigators to help reduce a backlog of wage theft and discrimination cases.
Cliff Bentz, Ashland’s congressional representative, made his first visit to his district since voting for federal budget cuts.
A local rally and food drive on Saturday, July 26, opposing President Donald Trump’s federal tax and spending bill drew about 100 to Ashland Plaza.
Southern Oregon Public Broadcasting is on the brink of losing nearly $1 million in federal funding if the U.S. Senate votes to strip previously approved public media funding. Jefferson Public Radio stands to lose more than $500,000.
Oregon will see rising rates of hunger due to the recently passed GOP megabill that cuts federal food aid to states, according to Oregon leaders and advocates aiming to blunt the fallout of what one Oregon Congresswoman called the “single largest rollback of food aid in American history.”
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, 68, announced Thursday he’d run again for the Senate seat he’s held for more than 16 years. He’s represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate since 2009, alongside Oregon’s senior U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, also a Democrat. Merkley was last elected to his seat by Oregon voters in 2020.
Oregon leaders expressed anger, devastation and disappointment with the passage of a nearly 900-page tax and spending cut bill by Congressional Republicans expected to take health insurance and food assistance away from millions of Americans while sending tax cuts worth tens of thousands of dollars to the nation’s highest earners.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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