Alex Baumhardt
Alex Baumhardt is a reporter for Oregon Capital Chronicle. She has been a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media since 2017. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post
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Oregonians making minimum wage will get a 50-cent bump per hour beginning Wednesday, resulting in an average of $573 more per year for someone working full time.
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The potential super El Niño event this fall and winter could bring much needed rains to the region, experts said -
Legislative leaders said their focus was to spending on public safety, including drought and wildfire preparedness and response -
Oregon’s wildfire season started early this year and is expected to last into October, according to state fire experts. -
Oregon’s congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to give the public more time to learn about and comment on new plans that would open up millions of acres of federal forests in Oregon to logging activity not seen since the 1960s. -
Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1507 to help the state preserve $291 million in tax revenue during the next 18 months -
State Rep. Boomer Wright, a Republican from Reedsport who has represented Oregon’s southern coast since 2020, will not run for a fourth term. -
A roundup of Oregonians who played an outsized role in the protests, policies and major tax cut and spending packages that made headlines this year -
USDA officials notified states that funding for SNAP benefits would be frozen in November due to the government shutdown -
By the fall of next year, Oregon State University’s new wave-energy testing facility off the coast of Newport could be kicking out its first volts of electricity as companies begin testing devices capable of harnessing the powerful wave energy.
