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Boeing workers pressured to put speed over quality, FAA says

By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Boeing factory workers felt pressured to prioritize production speed over quality and said they did not receive enough training to properly perform their jobs, according to the results of a special investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published Wednesday. The never-before-disclosed results of a six-week-long FAA special

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Oregon State Hospital marks 10th anniversary of memorial for historical cremated remains as more are returned to families

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – World War I veterans, a mother of five, a singer and a seamstress – each is among the 92 people whose cremated remains were claimed and returned to their families this year. Their lives were remembered Tuesday during Oregon State Hospital’s annual ceremony that celebrates the reunification of families. The event

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Help shape the future of Oregon’s workforce: Survey for educators, business leaders now open

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Educators and business leaders across Oregon are invited to participate in a vital survey aimed at shaping the future of Oregon’s workforce. This four-question survey focuses on the Oregon Employability Skills (OES) program, a key initiative that bridges the gap between education and industry through a free, open-source online curriculum. The OES program

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Senate chairman demands answers from emergency rooms that denied care to pregnant patients

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans have influenced how they treat those patients. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, sent inquiries to nine hospitals ahead of a hearing Tuesday looking at whether abortion bans have prevented

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Wyden, Chu introduce bill to boost access to capital for small businesses owned by women and people of color

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Representative Judy Chu, D-Calif., introduced legislation Tuesday called the PROGRESS Act that would improve access to capital for small businesses owned by women and people of color. Short for Providing Real Opportunities for Growth to Rising Entrepreneurs for Sustained Success, the PROGRESS Act would create two new tax

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FAA boss: Boeing still must make ‘significant changes’ to improve quality and safety

By Chris Isidore and Pete Muntean, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing still has to make “significant changes” to improve the quality and safety of its airplanes, according to the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. In a congressional hearing on the FAA’s oversight of Boeing set for Tuesday morning, agency Administrator Michael Whitaker told

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Senators anonounce over $1.8 million investment in Oregon manufacturing public-private partnerships

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) —  Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Monday that $1,852,748 is heading to the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP) to bolster Oregon manufacturers. This funding will provide public-private partnerships to small and medium sized manufacturers across the state.  “If we don’t make things in America, we won’t have a middle class in

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Wyden backs legislation to empower tenants’ rights to organize without fear of retaliation, interference

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday he has joined in introducing a crucial bill that he said would empower tenants to organize, participate in, and operate tenant organizations without fear of retaliation or interference in Oregon and nationwide.  Here’s his news release: The Tenants’ Right to Organize Act, led by Senator John Fetterman,

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The eyes have it: Oregon now has an official state vegetable – it’s the potato

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The potato was officially recognized as Oregon’s official vegetable on Monday during an induction ceremony hosted by the Oregon Potato Commission.  State Senator Bill Hansell (R-Athena), a co-chief sponsor of SCR 3, was on hand to celebrate the occasion and delivered a speech highlighting the potato’s importance to Oregon. “The hard-working farmers

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Wyden, Merkley, colleagues urge social media, chat platforms to boost efforts to combat 2024 election disinformation

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Monday they have joined Senate colleagues in calling on 11 of the largest and most popular social media and encrypted chat companies in the United States to increase resources needed to combat 2024 U.S. election administration and certification disinformation.  “We are deeply concerned that

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Oregon agency announces state’s annual maximum rent increase for 2025 will hold at 10% cap

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Administrative Services published Monday the annual maximum rent increase allowed by statute for calendar year 2025. The DAS Office of Economic Analysis has once again calculated the maximum percentage as 10%, the maximum allowed under the 5-year-old state law. Implemented in 2019, Oregon law requires DAS to

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Oregon Department of Forestry is out of money, seeking more to pay for the costliest wildfire season in state history

By Evan Watson, KGW PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry needs emergency funding to pay for the most expensive wildfire season in state history, with record-high costs of $250 million and counting, KGW reports. As of mid-September, more than 1.9 million acres of land had burned across Oregon — nearly double the acreage

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Oregon Dept. of Forestry incident management teams play key coordination role in challenging wildfire season

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – This week marked the 12th deployment of 2024 for the Oregon Department of Forestry’s incident management teams, or IMTs —11 during fire season and one following the ice storm earlier this year.  An IMT is a group of specially trained and qualified personnel who together provide the type of highly adaptable and

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State agencies issue Lower Umatilla Basin nitrate reduction plan

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The State of Oregon, through collaboration between the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the Oregon Water Resources Department and the Oregon Health Authority, released a Nitrate Reduction Plan on Friday to outline the state’s key strategies to reduce groundwater nitrate concentrations to less than seven mg/L

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