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Here's your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin'!) IN LOCAL NEWS: • Sobering news from Gov. Kate Brown's news conference today: Oregon now leads the nation in COVID-19 infection rates, and hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the past week. However there is some good news to be had as well, as OHSU predicts vaccination efforts.
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• Mayor Ted Wheeler has found time in his busy schedule of fretting about broken windows to release a proposed city budget for the coming year. But before you nod off to sleep, this shit is actually important and YOU can influence where this money goes (not to cops, right?). Our Alex Zielinski has done the heavy lifting of digging deep into the budget and deftly explaining it all to dummies like me. CHECK IT OUT!
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IN LOCAL NEWS:
• Starting today, 15 Oregon counties move back to the extreme risk category due to a worrying spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. What does that mean for you? Our Blair Stenvick breaks it all down.