House passes broad health care legislation
REPRESENTATIVES WERE near-unanimous Thursday in their support of a major hospital sector oversight and health care reform bill that directs tens of millions of dollars in supplemental aid to strained…
Outside money in Oregon swing district prompts claims of Republican meddling
State Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Clackamas, is running against 2022 nominee Jamie McLeod-Skinner in the Democratic primary for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. (Campaign photos) Outside money pouring into ads in an…
A look at some of the bills that failed to pass the Alaska Legislature this year
Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, listens to discussion on the Senate floor on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) In the last days of their two-year session, Alaska…
Advocates press U.S. House to act soon on compensation for nuclear testing victims
New Mexico Democrats Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, at the lectern, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, and Guam’s Republican House delegate, James Moylan, along with advocates, on May 16, 2024, urged…
The day that bills die in CA Legislature
The Assembly appropriations committee holds its “suspense file” hearing at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 16, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters How does it…
Brown v. Board litigants, family mark anniversary as Biden decries ongoing school inequality
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel…
Tolls on existing I-5 bridge will help pay for the new span linking Oregon and Washington
Tens of thousands of people use the Interstate 5 Bridge every day. (Courtesy of Interstate Bridge Replacement Program) When construction starts on a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia…
Northwest tribes, feds dive into work on salmon revival in upper Columbia River
Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the…
On 20th anniversary of same-sex marriage, here’s the story of how it almost did not happen
IN 2003, in the case of Goodridge v. the Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found a right to same-sex marriage in our Constitution for all the…
Should California doctors report domestic abuse to police? Here’s how physician lawmakers voted
In summary Pending legislation would lift requirements for California’s doctors to report all domestic abuse cases to police. The Assembly’s three physicians had different opinions. Should doctors be required by…