Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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Journalist. Currently covering environment, education @ORCapChronicle @statesnewsroom. Alumna @apmreports @FulbrightSpain. [email protected]
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if DOGE was actually interested in going after waste, fraud, and abuse, the Pentagon should have been its first stop https://t.co/h4FYcA14Ac
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at https://t.co/8XlteewbRp - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Counties and schools in rural Oregon (and 40 other states) to lose millions in federal money in 2025 after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year to the state. https://t.co/cIixZeraFe
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill in 2025 after House Republicans failed to take a vote on it.
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Great look from @jrlsilverman into one school district employee, and one mother's experience, getting 14-year old to school each day against challenges that include housing, work, financial, health and child care insecurity. https://t.co/Q0AHrAkajd
oregonlive.com
In the Salem-Keizer school district, getting kids to show up at school consistently means helping their families too.
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A single father Gov. Tina Kotek met just before Thanksgiving is one of the thousands of Oregonians who found a temporary home in a Project Turnkey shelter as the state struggles to build enough permanent homes. https://t.co/bX7YDuA3w7
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon's Project Turnkey shelters have given temporary homes to thousands of Oregonians waiting for permanent housing.
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This story is WILD: Mysterious takeover of 140-year-old rural Oregon news outlet by AI plagiarists, deployed by unknown source, warns of "online future supercharged by the next unregulated wave of technology from Silicon Valley companies may hold for news consumers."
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers. https://t.co/gJWcBpo8BW
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After 5+ years of waiting for some, wildfire survivors across the West will be relieved of paying federal income taxes on recovery settlements and lawyer fees. The Senate passed the Disaster Tax Relief Act Weds. It awaits signature from Pres. Joe Biden https://t.co/iLho2w0JI4
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
The Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2023 will offer relief to survivors of wildfires dating back to 2015.
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"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers." Read @propublica's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives. https://t.co/mqHzhm995E
propublica.org
Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.
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The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for more information.
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Portland General Electric is seeing massive demand from chip manufacturers, data centers since 2020, requiring PGE to buy more, and more expensive, energy, and spend on infrastructure. But those costs are coming down to all customers, CEO letter indicates. https://t.co/1HR1vMYVku
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Editor’s note: The Capital Chronicle has launched a $10,000 end-of-year fundraising campaign to help us continue our first-class coverage next year. A lot is at stake, and there’s a long legislative...
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Tsunami Warning 1 for areas of OR & N. CA: See https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for alert areas. M7.3 045mi SW Eureka, California 1044PST Dec 5
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Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of the state known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” before he leaves office. https://t.co/UhqlHh9ix9
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
In a recent letter, Kotek asked Biden to protect “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” and a stretch of the Owyhee River in the southeast of the state.
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Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win confirmed in a rural Woodburn-based House seat late Tuesday. #orleg #orpol
https://t.co/USDBtkyq99
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win in a Woodburn-based House seat.
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Oregon's U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is 'blowing the whistle' on the state's largest electric utility, scrutinizing the role of data centers in massive rate hikes for residential customers - more than 40% - in the last four years. https://t.co/kc8IugRpLC
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Wyden wrote to Portland General Electric’s CEO requesting data on load growth and how the company has used historic federal subsidies.
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“The antiquated notion that everything is printed out and placed in some physical ‘master file’ is completely made up in Mr. Zaitz’s head.” - @eoumountaineers attorney. Friday, I got the ordered access to these figments of my imagination. @SPJOregon @RCFP #Localjournalism
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The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Oregon Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Oregon on Tuesday. https://t.co/Ocjvzf8xfh
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
The U.S. Senate confirmed Oregon Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Oregon.
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.@GovTinaKotek vows to "protect Oregon values" as state stockpiles abortion drug https://t.co/JlpEigigrG
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oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon added to its emergency supply of the abortion drug mifepristone, but most of the state’s plans to respond to Trump are undecided.
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Democrat @bynum4thewin has now defeated Republican @LChavezDeRemer in electoral matchups three times in the past decade. The AP called #OR05 for Bynum this morning. #orpol
https://t.co/jbLcdlWdq8 by @JMShumway
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Democrat Janelle Bynum has defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for the third time in less than a decade.
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Wildfire survivors appeal to Congress to end federal income tax on settlements, lawyer fees @AlexBaumhardt @ORCapChronicle
https://t.co/SpV7nAJD66
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, vowed at a Portland town hall to pass a relief bill by the end of the year, possibly Thanksgiving.
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APM story from 2018: Pete Hegseth had two separate affairs with co-workers during two marriages, did some nepotism while running a veteran's organization, spent a bunch of campaign funds on Christmas parties for family and friends https://t.co/XRMO9Dl7zQ
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