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A covered driveway entrance to a large, beige building, with stairs leading up from a parking lot. A standing sign in the parking lot says, "South Lobby" and a sign on the covered entrance reads, "Hospital Entrance B"
Roman Battaglia
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JPR News
Health and Medicine
Asante faces over a dozen discrimination lawsuits due to COVID vaccine requirements
Justin Higginbottom
Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford is facing multiple lawsuits by former employees claiming that the hospital discriminated against them for not taking the COVID vaccine.
FILE - Bend City Council chambers in 2017.
Bradley W. Parks
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OPB
Race and Ethnicity
Bend spotlighted in national DEI backlash following city meeting hate speech
Emily Cureton Cook
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require tortillas and other foods made with corn masa flour to include the ingredient folic acid. The vitamin reduces the likelihood of birth defects. Here, tortilla packages are stacked at a supermarket in Fresno on April 9, 2024.
Larry Valenzuela
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CalMatters/CatchLight Local
Health and Medicine
Why tortillas sold in California may be required to add a new ingredient
Ana B. Ibarra
Power lines in Sacramento County
Andrew Nixon
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CapRadio
Environment, Energy and Transportation
Draft plan outlines how power will get from offshore wind farms in Northern California to the grid
Roman Battaglia
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from Oregon's former legislative equity officer.
Amanda Loman
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Oregon Capital Chronicle
Law and Justice
Federal judge dismisses former Oregon legislative employee’s suit over Capitol harassment investigations
Julia Shumway
Nate Monson alleged top lawmakers and legislative staff retaliated against him by publicizing discrepancies in his résumé after he raised concerns.
Deb Robertson sits for a portrait at her Lombard, Ill. home, Thursday, March 21, 2024. She didn’t cry when she learned two months ago that the cancerous tumors in her liver were spreading, portending a tormented death. But later, she cried after receiving a call that a bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help had made progress.
Charles Rex Arbogast
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AP
Health and Medicine
Terminally ill people ask more states besides Oregon and Vermont to let them access assisted dying
Jesse Bedayn
Kevin Heinrich, a licensed practical nurse, at a workstation at Mirabella Portland’s skilled nursing facility on Feb. 13, 2023. Nurses and other health care workers have become increasingly hard to find after the pandemic.
Jake Thomas
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The Lund Report
Health and Medicine
Nurses in rural Oregon take home better pay, study finds
Jake Thomas
Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge in 2021
Erik Neumann
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JPR
Environment, Energy and Transportation
Klamath farmers say new Fish and Wildlife rule would threaten agriculture on refuges
Justin Higginbottom
HB 4127 was signed into law last month, and takes effect on Jan. 1, 2025. It will require that warehouses give some new and existing employees notice of their quotas.
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Business and Labor
Oregon passes new protections for workers at larger warehouses
Nathan Wilk
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Almonroth
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Wikimedia Commons
Science & Technology
Californians get hacked all the time. The state’s top cybersecurity job is vacant
Khari Johnson
Gov. Newsom has yet to appoint a commander who is tasked with informing businesses and governments of cybersecurity threats.
UC Davis on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.
Andrew Nixon
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CapRadio
Education
California attempts to increase access to state financial aid for students as FAFSA problems persist
Srishti Prabha
Jose Villanueva carries siding while building a home in Paradise on Oct. 25, 2023. The project is partly funded by ReCoverCA, a state program providing money to rebuild homes in disaster areas.
Noah Berger
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AP Photo
Politics & Government
California requires new homes to have solar panels. Should wildfire victims get a break?
Ryan Sabalow
Mortar cubes rest in the product lab at Fortera's facility in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for about 8% of global emissions each year. Fortera, a clean tech company whose technology captures carbon emissions from kilns and feeds it back in to the process, is opening its first commercial scale operation on Thursday, April 12, 2024, in California. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy)
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Environment, Energy and Transportation
Making cement is very damaging for the climate. One solution is opening in California
Isabella O'Malley/Associated Press
Fishing boats docked at the marina at Humboldt Bay in Eureka on June 6, 2023.
Larry Valenzuela
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CalMatters/CatchLight Local
Environment, Energy and Transportation
California salmon fishing banned for second year in row
Rachel Becker
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