Rob Manning
Rob Manning has been both a reporter and an on-air host at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before that, he filled both roles with local community station KBOO and nationally with Free Speech Radio News. He's also published freelance print stories with Portland's alternative weekly newspaper Willamette Week and Planning Magazine. In 2007, Rob received two awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists, and he was part of the award-winning team responsible for OPB's "Hunger Series." His current beats range from education to the environment, sports to land-use planning, politics to housing.
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Oregon's unemployment rate continues to fall. The state has regained nearly three quarters of the jobs it lost during the pandemic's roughest days.
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The Trail Blazers said they ran an investigation of a 1997 sexual assault allegation against Chauncey Billups, which cleared the former NBA All-Star. But the team offered few details about what it found.
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The state's largest higher education institution said it's not requiring proof of vaccination of students, staff or faculty.
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The state's unemployment rate is at its lowest point since before the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked the economy in March 2020. But 109,000 fewer people have jobs than in February 2020.
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Senate Bill 513 requires a half credit civics course for an Oregon diploma, starting with the Class of 2026.
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Students in grades 6-12 will shift back to distance learning after six positive COVID-19 cases were found among high school students in Wallowa.
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Rep. Elizabeth Furse, D-Oregon, founded and helped lead an institute on tribal government at Portland State University after leaving Congress.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Saturday.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has said in order to run full-contact sports outdoors, high schools have to offer some instruction indoors.
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More student-athletes in Oregon will get a chance to compete, under an announcement Wednesday from Gov. Kate Brown.