HB 4177 takes a wrecking ball to Oregon public meetings law. That's why SPJ Oregon, which represents journalists across the state, is calling on Gov. @tinakotek.bsky.social to veto it and preserve the public's right to know.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
Google execs say they are all about transparency.
Their track record says otherwise. They tried to keep their water use secret. The Oregonian had to sue to make that information public.
This was one Google executive’s response when I pressed him about the lawsuit.
The Oregon Coast Humane Society has bought its Florence headquarters – which it previously rented from the county - for $500. The purchase is the first step in a planned, long-term expansion.
The nonprofit has served over 900 animals this year.
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Lane County has signed a two-year, $132,000 contract with Flock Safety. The technology will allow deputies to search for vehicles based on license plates, or use AI to search for visual characteristics like color and model.
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Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson says she's been navigating her first 10 months in office while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Mayor Knudson says that she is now cancer free.
KLCC’s Rebecca Hansen-White spoke with Knudson about her experience.
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“I simply don’t trust Flock, and I don’t trust the Trump administration, given where we are today.”
Eugene Council unanimously voted to pause their use of AI license plate cameras , which are owned by national surveillance company Flock.
The question of who gets to tell the story is a critically important one right now. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Crosscut/cascade pbs is an essential part of the PNW's journalism ecosystem, and writers their have for years, consistently asked WA leaders hard questions. Truly unbelievable.
Funding for the 126 overhaul, as well as several other Oregon infrastructure projects, were put on hold earlier this year by the Trump administration.
Following an immigration raid at an active wildfire in Washington state, wildland fire professionals are raising alarms that the leadership team in charge of the fire response may have sent their crews into an ambush.
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Have you ever wondered if government leaders are writing things with ChatGPT?
Through records requests, I obtained thousands of pages of chat histories from city officials in Washington.
The logs show widespread use of AI — with little transparency:
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Hello just wanted to say:
Public media is a useful public good. It is a source of great local news at a time when local news is being decimated. Also, in my 10 years in public media, I can say people who work here do it because they believe in the mission of informing people.
Just noting.
Eugene and Springfield police have purchased license plate readers that use AI to make digital fingerprints of vehicles. Police say they're a tool to gather objective evidence.
Privacy advocates fear the system could put Oregon’s vulnerable residents at risk.
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"So if you can afford high-priced attorneys -- and find judges to go along -- you get access to a secret court system in Oregon.
The poor, the middle class, everyday Oregonians? You get the public system, the one that has worked just fine since 1859."
Our editor laid himself off this week due to an impending cashflow shortage. We’re pretty devastated, and a little bit scared for the future of RANGE.
We've been hard at work at the #orleg, including by marshaling opposition last week to this proposal that could chill public service journalism by giving people and their lawyers more time to make frivolous demands to retract news articles. Read more from @opb.org:
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Eugene's current budget would close the downtown library 2 days a week, end the city’s contract with Greenhill Humane Society, and close the Amazon Pool and Sheldon Community Center in the fall.
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A Lane County food waste and recycling project has hit a few setbacks: The county’s building permit was rejected and one trash company has diverted thousands of tons of garbage and revenue, to its own landfill.
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A few council members pushed back on the idea, saying the could lose voters trust and compromising on the fee could put the city in another deficit in a few years.
A Eugene ballot measure that would allow voters to decide whether they want to pay a new fire fee is mostly funded by commercial property owners and businesses.
Opponents to the ballot measure have argued that a fee is the only way the Eugene can dodge drastic cuts.
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The emergency room is feeling the strain of multiple local healthcare challenges, including a rise in respiratory infections, the closure of the University District emergency room, and accommodating thousands of former Oregon Medical Group patients.
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“Cities like Eugene and Corvallis are canaries in the coal mine, don't ignore the warning signs.”
Oregon U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle recently spoke with KLCC's Rachael McDonald. She believes the United States is in a constitutional crisis.
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My conservative, working class family is currently reading the most hardcore, conspiracy theory, memable content for free.
My biggest pet peeve with initiatives like “Riveting Storytelling for All of America” is that it never seems to include hiring people from backgrounds that reflect America?
Somehow AI, and a conservative column you have to pay a subscription to read will make you relatable to blue collar people?
Want to tell you elected officials what to do? They’re not reading your social media posts. Here’s a simple guide to get their attention. open.substack.com/pub/dgblanki...
A non doom and gloom story (by me) that features the voices of children learning how to read -