Update 2:00 pm: Following the press conference, Governor Kate Brown announced on Twitter that the $100 gift cards will be available today at the Hillsboro Stadium vaccination site. The Portland International Airport and Oregon Convention Center vaccination sites will distribute $100 gift cards to people receiving their first dose of the vaccine tomorrow, June 12, while supplies last. Update: $100 gift cards are available to Oregonians receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today.
As the state moves to reopen, Oregonians are starting to see a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel filled with summer barbecues and breezy, bustling happy hours—at least, for vaccinated, and mostly white, Oregonians. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) predicts that 70 percent of adult Oregonians will have at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by June 21, at which time almost all statewide mask, social distancing, and building capacity limit requirements.
Andrea Valderrama sworn in as newest member of Oregon House
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Posted Apr 01, 2021
Andrea Valderrama was sworn-in to represent House District 47 in the Oregon House. Beth Nakamura / The Oregonian|OregonLiveThe Oregonian
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In an outdoor ceremony Thursday at a new park in her district, Andrea Valderrama was welcomed as the newest member of the Oregon House.
She pledged to work to help the Legislature respond expeditiously to the coronavirus’s devastating health and economic impacts with a special focus on Black and Indigenous Oregonians and other people of color.
She noted that, as the daughter of a Peruvian immigrant and the mother of a kindergartner who will attend her first-ever day of in-person school on Monday, the issues of racism and the brutal impact of coronavirus on working mothers are personal as well as political.
Oregon Cannabis Equity Act Set for Hearing
HB 3112 in front of House Judiciary Committee Thursday
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PORTLAND, Ore., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Oregon legislators will get their first in-depth look at HB 3112, the Oregon Cannabis Equity Act, Thursday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. The bill, developed by a coalition of over 80 groups and individuals, calls for using cannabis tax revenues to provide for direct investment in the people and the communities most harmed by cannabis criminalization.
State Rep. Ricki Ruiz, one of the chief sponsors of the measure, said using cannabis tax dollars to repair the harm individuals and communities have suffered from over-arrest and incarceration must be dealt with now.
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Oregon’s new law decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of all drugs for personal use went into effect earlier this month and has been hailed by advocates of drug policy reform as a “revolutionary” step in the right direction.
Rather than face a criminal violation with jail time, possession of illegal drugs is now a civil violation that comes with a fine and court-ordered therapy. Using a public health approach that offers treatment, rather than the decades-long war on drugs approach resulting in incarceration, is one Oregon now shares with countries such as Portugal, the Netherlands, Switzerland and others. Criminal punishment has been shown to have little to no effect on reducing crime, including the use and possession of illegal drugs.