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15 Sep 2020, 11:00 am by Brenda Baumgart and Caroline Sundbaum
On the day that its temporary rule was set to expire, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (“BOLI”) issued a permanent rule to allow employees to continue to avail themselves of protected “sick child leave” under the Oregon Family Leave Act (“OFLA”) to care for a child whose school or childcare provider has been closed in conjunction with a statewide public health emergency, including COVID-19. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:48 am by Tom Smith
The so-called red flag warnings stretched from hard-hit southern Oregon to Northern California and extended through Monday evening. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:07 am by Tom Smith
  Meanwhile the mainstream media is busy issuing headlines like this instead of actually trying to get to the bottom of what's behind the seeming simultaneous explosion of fires: "Oregon Officials Warn False Antifa Rumors Waste Precious Resources For Fires," writes NPR. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 8:39 am by Tom Smith
” As someone who has argued against catastrophism—I don’t believe Donald Trump is a fascist or a dictator in the making, and I don’t believe America is a failed state—I find myself truly worried about only one scenario: that Trump will win reelection and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result.A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because… [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 5:00 am by Tom Smith
  At least 20 have now been killed in California, eight in Oregon and one in Washington state as thousands of firefighters struggle to bring the blazes under control and the governors of California and Oregon told residents to expect more fatalities in the coming days. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 5:26 am
Said Andrew Phelps, director of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, quoted in "A Line of Fire South of Portland and a Yearslong Recovery Ahead/Firefighters continued to battle blazes along the West Coast that have now charred nearly five million acres. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 3:39 am by SHG
The mayor of Portland on Thursday ordered police in Oregon’s largest city to stop using tear gas for crowd control during the frequently violent protests that have racked the city for more than three months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
(The LAPD notes that In 1905, Lola Baldwin of the Portland, Oregon Police Department was authorized with police authority and oversaw a group of social workers. [read post]
In response to the Final Rule, certain jurisdictions, including New York, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Vermont, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, filed suit to vacate it and to enjoin its implementation under the APA, which sets forth the procedures by which federal agencies are accountable to the public and their actions subject to review by courts. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 11:57 am by Anna Salvatore
In the past few days, rapid-moving fires have incinerated more than 900,000 acres in Oregon and killed at least four people. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 11:37 am by Renae Lloyd
., a  restaurant investment in Portland, Oregon, reportedly filed a form D to raise capital from investors in 2018. [read post]
” This order has allowed the president to send agents to American cities including over a hundred agents who clashed with BLM protesters in Portland, Oregon back in June. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 8:23 am
Kate Brown of Oregon, where the Beachie Creek and Riverside fires threatened to merge near Portland’s suburbs. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 6:07 am
The final provisions of Oregon’s Workplace Fairness Act (OWFA) go into effect on October 1, 2020—less than a month away. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 3:42 am by Tom Smith
Fanned by unusually hot, dry winds, dozens of fires are sweeping the state, and at least one is being treated as suspected arson. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 3:32 am by Tom Smith
As wildfires raged up and down the West Coast on Thursday, officials in Oregon said that one of the most destructive fires, which incinerated whole neighborhoods in two towns, may have been deliberately set.Three law enforcement agencies in Oregon, including the Ashland Police Department and the State Police, said they had opened an arson investigation for the Almeda Fire, which has been linked to at least two deaths and destroyed roughly 600 homes in the towns of Talent and… [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal $2,933 for ‘Girl’s Night’: Medicaid chief’s consulting expenses revealed Politico – Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn | Published: 9/10/2020 A House investigation showed how Seema Verma, the Trump administration’s top Medicaid official, spent more than $3.5 million on a range of GOP-connected consultants, who polished her public profile, wrote her speeches and Twitter posts, brokered meetings with high-profile individuals, and even billed… [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 2:06 pm by Tia Sewell
“We expect to see a great deal of loss, both in structures and in human lives,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown stated. [read post]