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Oregon Prison Inmates Were Evacuated From Wildfires Onto the Home Turf of Their Former Gang Associates “Hey, dude, don’t eat the food. The white dudes in the kitchen are putting stuff in the food.” Oregon State Penitentiary (Chris Nesseth) Updated January 13 It had been a long night, and Derrick Jermaine Jay wanted a cup of coffee. That was a bad idea. On the morning of Sept. 9, 2020, Jay awakened on the floor of the Oregon State Penitentiary. He and the 250 or so other men who had slept on the floor around him didn t get the best night of sleep. They had arrived in the middle of the night after standing outside the prison under a blood-red sky for hours as ash rained down.
Legislature opens 2021 session with a heavy infusion of reality
Ritual and rhetoric are subdued; members of color reach historic high in Oregon.
The new Oregon Legislature was light on the usual ritual and rhetoric during its opening day on Monday, Jan. 11 though they were present but heavy on the realities that have reshaped state politics during the past year.
All 60 representatives and 17 new senators took their oaths from Chief Justice Martha Walters. But unlike typical opening days which have been compared to the first day of school staff, families and friends were largely absent from the Capitol in Salem because of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the addition of a Vietnamese American, a Latina, a Latino and a Somali immigrant, the Legislature will include a record 12 people of color, including three Black men in the Senate. The House will be 15% non-white.
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Oregon health care leaders present their legislative concepts for the 2021 session Sydney Kurle | Dec 21, 2020
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During a remote committee meeting on Thursday the House Interim Committee on Health Care met to discuss their legislative concepts for the 2021 legislative session. Most notable among these concepts was the legislators’ commitment to addressing equity in health care, the social determinants of health, and health care affordability.
Charlie Fisher, State Director at the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, began the conversation with a presentation on a potential public option in Oregon. The presentation discussed how a public option may work and which populations would benefit in Oregon. Representative Andrea Salinas mentioned that she is working on a bill that is focused on making a public option possible in Oregon.