Experts predict demand for electricity in the Northwest to grow at least 3% per year until 2034.

via Oregon Capital Chronicle Alex Baumhardt
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It’s impossible to overstate the damage this company has done to journalism and civic life in communities throughout the country, especially in smaller cities and rural areas with few other options.

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court has granted DOJ's emergency (mandamus) petition in the Our Children's Trust Juliana v. US youth constitutional climate case, ending the case for good w/o a trial

More on this to come...
#ClimateLitigation #youthvgov #JusticeDenied

BREAKING: After weeks of criticism from within and outside her office and the departure of key staff, Governor Tina Kotek is giving up on plans to expand her wife's policy role. More tk from a press conference starting soon. #orpol

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/05/01/ore…

Wow, this Google Group / Listserv is a major resource for journalists all over the world and has been for years. At least a decade or more? Really curious to know under what pretext Google would ban it?

Nearly all of Oregon's 7 public universities have increased tuition every year for the past 10 years. Average tuition today is up 26% from a decade ago. Oregon’s public 4-years now have some of the highest tuition and fees among public Us in the West.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/05/01/tui…

New internal Big Oil documents just dropped

featuring hits like

-“We don’t yet see the world even approaching a 2°C pathway'

-'“Methane is more potent than CO2'

-“No one is committed to anything, other than to stay in the game.”

And more!

heated.world/p/new-internal…

New $75 million jail facility in Minnesota's Itasca County includes a giant 10 commandments mural and bible quotes from Ronald Reagan minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/30/tho…

Portland State University said it will close its campus today as protesters have taken over a library building.

opb.org/article/2024/0…

Use our migrant child labor data!

More children are crossing the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs.

We sued the government for a huge trove of data about these kids, and shared it all here: github.com/nytimes/hhs-ch…

A group of students at University of Oregon have started a pro-Palestinian protest encampment in front of the university's library.

klcc.org/education/2024…

Top Kotek staff were concerned about first lady's role, security requests, records show oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/26/top… via Oregon Capital Chronicle

Portland State University pauses connections to Boeing due to companies ties to Israel opb.org/article/2024/0…

The only #orleg Republican who supports abortion rights faces a primary challenge from a rural businessman with no prior elected experience who’s trying to make the race a referendum on abortion and trans issues. #orpol

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/26/rep…

Nearly a year ago Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. This week on All Things Considered we look at the aftermath. I spent time in one immigrant community where locals told me 30% have fled.

npr.org/2024/04/24/123…

.The New York Times video investigates Israel’s strike on our guesthouse in #Gaza & others

IRC/MAP house was deconflicted. Staff movements to it were deconflicted. Israel confirmed its safety in below message

Then Israel struck it with a 1,000 lb US bomb

Israel tells NYT it wasn’t them

For 5 of Oregon's 17 community colleges, high schoolers in dual college credit classes made up 20%+ of the colleges’ total enrollment. The state sends colleges money based on enrollment, though many teens take the classes at their HS, with a HS teacher
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/25/tee…

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

This is truly bittersweet — and more bitter than sweet. “Surviving to Graduation,” the podcast Sabby Robinson, Hannah Natanson and I produced about a high school grappling with losing students to gun violence, is a Peabody finalist. peabodyawards.com/award-profile/…

WOAH we've been nominated for a Peabody!!!

Our last season of The Uncertain Hour (RIP)- the podcast I made & hosted for 6 yrs - was just recognized by Peabody Awards!!!

So grateful for our amazing team & all the folks who shared their stories to shed light on welfare-to-work.