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"As church pews become increasingly empty, the United Methodist Church and denominations across Oregon are hoping to turn their underutilized properties into housing. Church leaders say they’re located in city centers, which are convenient locations for people who need services."

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/22/oregon-churches-land-housing-units-bill/

#ORpol #Oregon #Housing #Urbanism


Local #journalism jobs at the new regional #news org in #oregon #getfedihired #fedijobs https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/hiring/

// This org is an offspring of the Santa Cruz Lookout, and it is starting up in April. Oregon is a Sinclair news desert, so this is exciting.


Yamhill County News Register: Whatchamacolumn: Yet another raid on legal notices in newspapers. “In the guise of saving money, the latest proposal to the Oregon Legislature would allow publication of legal notices on any website carrying some kind of local news, so long as 25 percent is locally composed. In other words, anyone with a computer could become sole publisher of public messages […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/03/whatchamacolumn-yet-another-raid-on-legal-notices-in-newspapers-yamhill-county-news-register/


As egg costs climb, some accuse producers of inflating prices and blaming bird flu https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/02/as-egg-costs-climb-some-accuse-producers-of-inflating-prices-and-blaming-bird-flu.html

#OregonLive #oregon


Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Arizona AG Kris Mayes, #NewMexico AG Raul Torrez, and #Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE [sic] funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.


It is so neat being able to visit the School of Journalism & Communication at the University of Oregon this week. What a wonderful place. I've already had a lot of inspiring conversations about the troubling times we are in, with many brilliant students & colleagues. Oh, and I also spotted an extraterrestrial vehicle.

Many thanks goes to Seth Lewis & Damian Radcliffe for being absolutely outstanding hosts!

@commodon @communicationscholars #Oregon #Eugene #Journalism #Communication
A statue of the Oregon duck, the university's mascot, on campus, with campus buildings in the background
A hiking trail in the woods of Eugene, OR
A street view with a large white house in the background and an oddly looking shiny silver car parked on its driveway


"In healthcare, the DSA endorsed the profit-driven policy of “herd immunity” as far back as 2020, originally promoted by the first Trump administration and the extreme right and which became state policy under the Biden administration. Jacobin has also favorably interviewed signatories of the pro-mass death Great Barrington Declaration in late 2020 and called for the reopening of schools, knowing they were significant vectors for the virus.

The organization has therefore been in political solidarity with policies which have produced the conditions which nurses face, including the near collapse of the healthcare system."

How the Democratic Socialists of America enforces unsafe staffing levels in Oregon hospitals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/17/nxbx-f17.html

#CovidIsntOver #PublicHealth #Nursing #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #DSA #Oregon


https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/01/portland-police-chief-apologizes-to-normandale-park-shooting-survivors-for-mischaracterizations.html
Day said press releases issued in the hours after the Feb. 19, 2022 shooting in Northeast Portland had described the victims as “armed protesters” — when, in fact, they were unarmed traffic safety volunteers known as corkers.
#pdx #Portland #Oregon #acab #fascism #disinformation #altright #ppb #ppa #malice #PortlandPolice #nazi #tedwheeler #normandale


Hello fellow fediverse denziens. I just deleted my #Facebook account and moved here. I didn't use #Twitter or #Instagram, so if I do weird things here that's probably why. I will, for example, use full sentences and the Oxford comma.

I live in #Portland, #Oregon with my wife and cat. I am currently trying to escape the corporate world, where I work as an #infosec professional. I am an #OSU Apprentice #Beekeeper and have two hives of #bees. And they're still alive!

#introduction


Im Crater Lake im US-Bundesstaat #Oregon schwimmt seit über 120 Jahren ein „Alter Mann“. Es handelt sich dabei um einen ca. 9 Meter hohen Baumstamm der aufrecht im Wasser treibt.

#Kurioses #Natur

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake


Saw this online earlier, just passing it on - not affiliated with the group, please contact them for questions!

Monday, January 20,
11th Annual Reclaim MLK Day -March for Human Rights and Dignity, Call to action for all common unity groups to show up for solidarity.

Show up at 1:00 PM, 700 North Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR

More info here:

https://www.dontshootpdx.org/community-events/11th-annual-reclaim-mlk

Or send email to contact@dontshootpdx.org

#PDX #Portland #Oregon #MLKDay #InaugurationDay
"Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reclaim Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 11th Annual March for Human Rights and Dignity. Call to action for all common unity groups to show up for solidarity, Jan. 20, 2025. Show up at 1:00 PM, 700 North Rosa Parks Way.
For more information email contact@dontshootpdx.org,
or visit dontshootpdx.org


The devastation left behind by a 2020 Oregon wildfire has created an opening for native plants and a network of pollinator gardens.

#wildfires #Oregon #RogueValley #gardening #NativePlants #pollinators

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/12/pollinator-gardens-rise-in-the-rogue-valley-from-the-ashes-of-the-almeda-fire/


I suspect that's how the captive wild cats caught the #BirdFlu -- from raw poultry!

House #cat in Washington County [#Oregon] died after contracting bird flu from raw frozen #PetFood

Story by Maxine Bernstein, December 24, 2024

"A house cat in Washington County contracted bird flu and died after eating #NorthwestNaturals raw frozen pet food, according to the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

"The state issued an alert Christmas Eve about #MoraschMeats of Portland’s voluntary recall of Northwest Naturals’ two-pound feline turkey recipe."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/house-cat-in-washington-county-died-after-contracting-bird-flu-from-raw-frozen-pet-food/ar-AA1wrJRL

#PetFoodRecall #RawPetFood #H5N1 #AvianInfluenza #AvianFlu #CatFood


By #Voting for #Democrats We Make Our Lives Better!

The EPA announced a $319 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan to the City of Portland, serving Oregon’s Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties. The loan supports construction of the new Bull Run Treatment Projects to meet federal and state safe drinking water standards, and it will help protect the public health of nearly 1 million residents. #portland #oregon #climate #water #environment https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-319m-wifia-loan-improvements-critical-drinking-water-system-oregon


More details released about death of AI whistleblower, age 26 https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/12/more-details-released-about-death-of-ai-whistleblower-age-26.html

#OregonLive #oregon


In 2016, a few white guys from #Oregon contacted leaders of the Fort McDermitt Tribal Council in northern #Nevada. They wanted to partner with the tribe to grow cannabis on tribal land.

They said the farm would be 100% owned by the tribe, would create much-needed jobs, generate money for tribal services like healthcare and education, and spur business in the remote area.

Tribal leaders signed on, but soon realized they'd entered a bad deal.

#Indigenous #Cannabis

https://www.hcn.org/articles/legal-weed-entrepreneurs-promised-a-windfall-from-tribal-lands-then-it-fell-apart/


AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
#Journalism #Journalists #Plagiarism #LocalNews #Oregon
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/


"The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to be. The bylines listed on Daily Tidings articles were put there by scammers using artificial intelligence, and in some cases stolen identities, to dupe local readers.

“It seems quite terrifying,” said Minihane, an actual journalist and author who learned he had his identity stolen after OPB contacted him. “I have friends who live in Portland, but I’ve never been to another part of the state, so I just don’t know quite how it came to pass.”"

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/

#USA #Oregon #AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #Journalism #Media #News


Great story from OPB:

"AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism"

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/

"Silicon Valley’s latest hot technology is being used to further degrade the news available to Oregonians"

I'm already an OPB member but I might send them another donation in support!

#Oregon #Journalism #LocalNews #Plagiarism #AI #AIHype #AISlop #OPB


The #MSM consolidation continues. More and more local independent media outlets are getting swallowed up by larger corporate giants from who knows where! This is how #Democracy dies. And now that the #UnitedStates will have a fascist in our White House, AGAIN!! the threat is even greater!

An #oregon_public_broadcasting article illustrates the situation.

#MediaCoverage
#USpol #USPolitics
#Journalism
#DefendDemocracy
#Oregon

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/local-news-job-loss-oregon/


I originally heard that Margaret Atwood's talk here in my little college town had been moved online because of the storm. That made sense. It turns out that the real story is sadder, but depressingly unsurprising. If these fascist assholes can shut down a book talk in Corvallis, they can do it anywhere.

#Corvallis #Oregon #books

https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2024/11/anonymous-threats-of-violence-move-margaret-atwood-event-at-osu-online.html


#Oregon tribe has hunting and fishing rights restored under a long-sought court ruling

November 27, 2024

LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) — "Drumming made the floor vibrate and singing filled the conference room of the Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, as hundreds in tribal regalia danced in a circle.

"For the last 47 years, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have held an annual powwow to celebrate regaining federal recognition. This month’s event, however, was especially significant: It came just two weeks after a federal court lifted restrictions on the tribe’s rights to hunt, fish and gather — restrictions tribal leaders had opposed for decades.

"'We’re back to the way we were before,' Siletz Chairman Delores Pigsley said.
'It feels really good.'

"The Siletz is a confederation of over two dozen bands and tribes whose traditional homelands spanned a large swath of what is now western Oregon. The federal government in the 1850s forced them onto a reservation on the Oregon coast, where they were confederated together as a single, federally recognized tribe despite their different backgrounds and languages.

"The Siletz is a confederation of over two dozen bands and tribes whose traditional homelands spanned a large swath of what is now western Oregon. The federal government in the 1850s forced them onto a reservation on the Oregon coast, where they were confederated together as a single, federally recognized tribe despite their different backgrounds and languages.

“The goal was to try and assimilate Native people, get them moved into cities,” said Matthew Campbell, deputy director of the Native American Rights Fund. 'But also I think there was certainly a financial aspect to it. I think the United States was trying to see how it could limit its costs in terms of providing for tribal nations.'

"Losing their lands and self-governance was painful, and the tribes fought for decades to regain federal recognition. In 1977, the Siletz became the second tribe to succeed, following the restoration of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin in 1973.

"In the 1950s and ‘60s, Congress revoked recognition of over 100 tribes, including the Siletz, under a policy known as 'termination.' Affected tribes lost millions of acres of land as well as federal funding and services.

"But to get a fraction of its land back — roughly 3,600 acres (1,457 hectares) of the 1.1-million-acre (445,000-hectare) reservation established for the tribe in 1855 — the Siletz tribe had to agree to a federal court order that restricted their hunting, fishing and gathering rights. It was only one of two tribes in the country, along with Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, compelled to do so to regain tribal land."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/siletz-oregon-tribal-rights-powwow-restoration-ee2c9fd73c372298aa4d505e3c992761

#Siletz #NativeAmericans #ConfederatedTribesOfSiletz #LandBack #OregonTribes #FishingRights #HuntingRights #Assimilation


"Urban Alchemy was founded in late 2018 with the purpose of creating career pathways for returning citizens, primarily those who were serving long term or life sentences.

Beginning in San Francisco and Los Angeles providing street cleaning, public restroom monitoring and activating public spaces, today we have grown into a thriving social enterprise with over 1,300 Practitioners (staff) and operations in #California, #Oregon, #Texas, and #Alabama. Our groundbreaking initiatives, programs and services are built on science, research and best practices and rooted in love, respect, and empathy, for traumatized people and communities."

#homelessness #poverty
https://urban-alchemy.us/


Help stop these wolf killings 🐺

Last year, two wolves in the wilds of #Oregon came together to form a new family. The duo and their two pups were officially named the #FrazierMountainPack in 2023.

This year, their lives are on the line.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (#ODFW) has issued an order to kill two of the Frazier Mountain wolves, destroying this small family before it has the chance to grow and thrive.

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/wolves/Counties/Union.asp#FrazierMountain

🐺


Update. "#Oregon’s legislature just passed a #RightToRepair bill over the objection of #Apple lobbyists, and which would require Apple to change an anti-repair design in the iPhone and other devices. If signed by the governor, it will become by far the strongest repair law in the nation."
https://www.404media.co/oregon-passes-right-to-repair-bill-that-would-make-apple-redesign-the-iphone/


Update. "#Apple might’ve backed a #RightToRepair bill in #California, but it was spotted lobbying 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 a new bill in #Oregon that tries to ban the practice known as parts pairing."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067957/apple-right-to-repair-oregon-bill-parts-pairing-ban


Update. #Google supports the #RightToRepair bill in #Oregon, even as applied to #Pixel phones.
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/11/pixel-right-to-repair/

But it adds this proviso: "Legislation should acknowledge the risks borne by unskilled repairers and allow original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to provide parts assemblies rather than individual components to reduce the risk of injury."

Primary source
https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/right-to-repair.pdf