if you woke up this morning and thought 'i want to read 3000 words about how spotify is doing the same thing to audio that facebook did to digital media,' well, you're in luck: defector.com/if-you-love-po…

Salem is cutting free summer movies, park concerts & some youth rec programs

This comes as the city is seeing a spike in shootings involving teenagers, which nearly every local leader says is best addressed by more spaces & programs for young ppl

salemreporter.com/2024/04/11/sum…

The Reading Recovery organization is spending a lot of money to defend itself. It hired a consulting firm to design a campaign to rebut Sold a Story, and it filed a lawsuit against its home state of Ohio.
New from Christopher Peak and Kate Martin.

apmreports.org/story/2024/04/…

Dang. Children born near military bases with high levels of groundwater PFAS contamination 'were born with lower birthweights, were less likely to complete college, and earned less as adults than cohorts born near any other military installation.'

Idaho has lost 22% of practicing OBGYNs since its abortion bans took effect. CEO of the Idaho Medical Association: 'Idaho is digging itself into a workforce hole that will take many years, if not decades, to fill.'
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/09/ida… via Oregon Capital Chronicle

The drop in FAFSA (financial aid form) completions by state is jaw dropping. Look at CA. by the amazing Phil Hill onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…

Former OHSU president now receives $1 million/year from Oregon's public pension system, following cost-of-living bump.

Oregon PERS database: Look up the pension benefits of public employees oregonlive.com/data/2024/04/o…

It's giving Paul Dorr (who got a $110 million school improvement bond in Idaho Falls defeated back in 2017) Dorr has worked for decades to defeat school bonds to defund public schools in nine states, calling public education 'a sin against god.' More here: apmreports.org/episode/2019/0…

the amount of legal abortion access that’s been decimated in the last two weeks alone is just staggering

BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate a 160-year-old law that forbids all abortion procedures except those to save a woman’s life. It will go into effect in 14 days.
azmirror.com/2024/04/09/abo…

The number of wild winter steelhead in the Upper Willamette Basin reached its highest level in two decades — huge news after their population nearly collapsed in 2017. I wrote about what's going on and why it's a big deal: tinyurl.com/4hj9ukf3

My latest: As Grants Pass case looms, Oregon advocates urge U.S. Supreme Court to protect homeless oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/09/as-… via Oregon Capital Chronicle

Port of Morrow continued this winter to spread more nitrogen-contaminated wastewater across east Oregon fields than permitted, harming an already contaminated water supply to thousands. The port has violated its permit for most of the past two decades. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/08/mor…

More fines for Port of Morrow as unpermitted wastewater dumping continues oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/08/mor… via Oregon Capital Chronicle by Alex Baumhardt

The lithium boom is the latest source of water conflict in the West -- particularly in Nevada's slice of the Great Basin, where one company controls most of the groundwater rights even as other companies move in with mining plans: insideclimatenews.org/news/08042024/… via Daniel Rothberg

There's a Massive, Hidden Lake of Mining Residue Above the North Shore. It Might Grow. racketmn.com/milepost-7-mn-…

I hope we remain *part of* the future of state journalism and part of robust state-level press corps that includes reporters from traditional newspapers, alt-weeklies, public radio and broadcast television. The more eyes on state capitols, the better.

This story about Rocky Shorey's life and death is extraordinary and heartbreaking. I was halfway up St. Helens Sat when a guy descending told us there was a fall and to stay back from the rim. I'd never seen so many people on the volcano as that day.
oregonlive.com/pacific-northw…

Because everyone has come to understand that tech like this is not “magical” but a nonconsenual harvesting of artists’ works that has been synthesized into bland automated aural mush that will be used to erode real artists’ pay. Hope this helps

If you're making lunch plans for tomorrow, look no further:
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