Current best practices for encouraging more female students to pursue degrees in economics may actually have the opposite effect and worsen gender disparities in the field, a recent study from Oregon State University found.
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden said Wednesday he has directed the US intelligence community to redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days. The announcement comes after a US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and
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Gov. Kate Brown has ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff until sunset, May 30, to honor and remember the victims of Wednesday’s shooting in San Jose, California.
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The east Bend brew pub will grow its own vegetables, and use its small farm to teach new agricultural methods.
Continue ReadingAfter yet another apparent noose was discovered at the construction site of an Amazon fulfillment center in Windsor, Connecticut on Wednesday, local NAACP officials and town leaders voiced their outrage with Amazon and law enforcement authorities for not taking the proper precautions before workers returned earlier this week. The latest discovery of a noose at
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Prineville city councilors heard a proposal Tuesday night that would, like Bend, allow some restaurants to convert some parking outside of their business to additional dining space, similar to what’s been done in downtown Bend.
Continue Reading“The Five,” one of the most popular shows on Fox News, is losing its liberal co-host — and Fox fans seem thrilled. Juan Williams, the lone dissenter on the conservative program, is stepping down from his co-host spot. He announced his departure on Wednesday afternoon’s broadcast. His exit is effective immediately. Fox says another liberal
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Qualified Central Oregon renters can now submit applications to the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program for funding to pay rent, rent arrears, future rent and certain home utility costs, NeighborImpact officials said Wednesday.
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Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday reflected on the frustration he had felt in office when his “institutional role” limited his ability to comment on federal investigations into the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. “I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin or what was happening
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Central Oregonians joined others around the world, getting up early Wednesday to see a spectacular full moon — not just a bigger “supermoon” for May’s full moon (known as the ‘Flower Moon’ — but a so-called “blood moon” — a lunar eclipse.
Continue ReadingRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are objecting to changing protections police currently enjoy from civil lawsuits, underscoring the challenges facing a trio of lawmakers who are furiously working to cut a deal that would overhaul policing in America. The issue — known as qualified immunity for police officers — has long been the biggest
Continue ReadingA New Mexico man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to kill President Joe Biden and others in text messages he sent to people in two states. John Benjamin Thornton is charged with using interstate commerce communications to send a threat to injure another person. The rambling texts allegedly from Thornton provided as
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid
Continue ReadingSan Jose, California, officials said for more than a year, local transit employees battled the dangers of Covid-19 — only to now fall victim to another epidemic: gun violence. At least eight people were killed Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire at a public transit rail yard in San Jose. The victims were employees
Continue ReadingA chance to win a $1 million prize has helped boost Ohio’s Covid-19 vaccination rate by 45%, Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday. The jump came after DeWine’s May 13 announcement of special lotteries offering millions of dollars in giveaways to adults — and full scholarships to younger Ohioans who get vaccinated. Across the country, governments,
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Gov. Kate Brown on Wednesday signed House Bill 2165, legislation introduced by the governor’s office to expand access to electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, particularly to people with low incomes and people of color.
Continue ReadingEric Carle, the author and artist of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and dozens of other popular children’s book, has died at 91. On Wednesday, Carle’s Twitter account acknowledged the death, indicating he died Sunday. “From the Eric Carle Team: It is with heavy hearts that we share that Eric Carle, author & illustrator of The
Continue ReadingA transgender woman placed in a men’s prison after filing a lawsuit alleging abuse at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to an out-of-state women’s facility, according to her lawyer. Rae Rollins had filed a lawsuit in March, alleging she was one of several inmates attacked by corrections officers at
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to “take immediate action” on gun legislation in the wake of a shooting in San Jose, California, that killed eight people earlier in the day, noting that he was ordering the flag lowered to half-staff just weeks after other mass shootings around the country. “Enough,” Biden said in
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