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Our TV picks for Wednesday, June 19: Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics; The Conners; Let’s Make a Deal Primetime
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics HIST 8 p.m. It was a spectacle of immense proportions when African American track and field athlete Jesse Owens traveled to Berlin for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. With a backdrop of Hitler’s Aryan supremacy agenda, he proceeded to win four gold medals. The Conners ...
State economist reflects on 14 years on the job
For Mark McMullen, who just wrapped up more than 13 years as Oregon’s state economist, coming to Oregon was both difficult and easy. The hard part was his career path after he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pomona College and a master’s degree in public economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His first job was as a researcher for the Congressional Budget Office, which Congress created almost two decades earlier to provide information and analyses independent of the White House Office of Management...
My opinion: Oregon may be putting patients in the middle of bad policy
In 2021 the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 844, creating the Oregon Prescription Drug Affordability Board (Oregon PDAB). Today, the board is charged with annually identifying nine drugs and one insulin product that it determines may create affordability challenges for the Oregon health care systems or high out-of-pocket costs for Oregonians. It is also charged with developing a mechanism for establishing upper payment limits on those drugs it has reviewed. Oregon Bioscience Association—along with the voices of many patient groups and health leaders—is growing increasingly...
OPINION: Former school board members set the district on perilous path
There should be a way to challenge a majority vote. It would have come in really handy to stop Dave Brown, Brian Shannon, Renee Powell, Raquel Peregrino de Brito and Trevor DeHart from crippling the Newberg school district. It has been widely speculated as to why these five hired a man with an extremely shady work history as superintendent of Newberg schools. ...
Oregon ranks middle among states for child well-being in new report
Oregon kids are healthier than average but lag their peers nationwide when it comes to education, according to a new report. The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation releases annually a report called KIDS COUNT that ranks how well states support kids using state and federal data. The latest report, the foundation’s 35th, was released last week and includes data collected in 2021 and 2022. It shows Oregon is in the middle among states for overall child well-being. ...
June 17 sheriff's office outstanding warrants
Anyone with information on these individuals may call the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office or its detectives, or the Newberg-Dundee Police Department. The Sheriff’s Office Crime Information tip line is 800-577-1707. Newberg police can be reached at 503538-8321, and Yamhill County detectives can be reached at 503-434-7508. Feb. 8. June 17 Jacob John KeteLaar, 31, is wanted on a warrant for contempt of court. ...
Readers Respond: Ideals for off-roading
Your Oregon News asked readers whether they like to go off-roading. About 35% of readers said no. On the other hand, about 30% of reader respondents said they love off-roading as a hobby, and modify their vehicle. About 24% said they like to off-road, infrequently. About 6% of readers like to watch others drive off-road, and another 6% like to go off-roading on vacation of seasonally, they said. ...
With six words, Michele Norris starts a conversation about race
Race. Your story. 6 words. Please send. With those six words (and one number), Michele Norris began a conversation about race that began 14 years ago with 200 postcards she distributed during a tour of the United States — and it continues today with more than half a million submissions from 100 countries. She described the results of the Race Card Project in her new book, “Our Hidden Conversations: What...
Sweet Survival: PNW Survival Games return for more outdoors
So, you like a challenge, testing yourself in the great outdoors of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, all while having fun in the process. Something’s returning that may just fit the bill. The second annual PNW Survival Games will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10-11, at the Ripple Creek Campground in Molalla. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, this year promises to be bigger and better, with...
2024 Subaru BRZ named "Best Affordable Sports Car"
1It’s hard to believe I’ve been testing the back-to-basics Subaru BRZ sports car since 2013, the model year it was first introduced. It seems fresh every time because it is so simple but purposeful – a car designed for nothing but cheap thrills, despite being available with the latest automotive technologies. Car and Driver gave it a 2024 Editor’s Choice Award for Best Affordable Sports Car. The BRZ was co-designed with Toyota, which produces a mechanically identical version called the GR86. They are only available...
Our TV picks for Tuesday, June 18: Fixer to Fabulous; Neighborhood Wars; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
Fixer to Fabulous HGTV 7 p.m. A couple reconnects after years of dating, and now they’re moving in together and want to make major updates to their home. As a nod to their time spent traveling, Dave and Jenny look to add traces of the world to create the couple’s unique renovation. Neighborhood Wars ...
THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK: Balloons, festivals and boat races!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19-SUNDAY, JUNE 23 TIGARD FESTIVAL OF BALLOONS — Forty years from inception, Tigard’s annual Festival of Balloons returns to celebrate its ruby jubilee June 21-23 at Cook Park. Hot air balloons will launch each morning, with vendors and carnival rides available ahead of the evening's Night Glow event and musical acts. Tickets from $15. For more information, go online (tigardballoon.org). RISK/REWARD — Artists have been announced for the...
Our TV picks for Monday, June 17: Name That Tune; Below Deck Mediterranean; NCIS
Name That Tune KPTV 8 p.m. One lucky contestant will turn countless hours putting together the perfect Spotify playlists into a life-changing grand prize in the latest edition of this classic music game show revival. Will their music knowledge be enough to outlast the competition? Below Deck Mediterranean ...
Newberg's Sophia Castaneda and Dax Duggan compete at Nike Outdoor Nationals
Newberg track and field's Sophia Castaneda and Dax Duggan returned to Hayward Field just under a month removed from their successful outings at the OSAA 6A state championships, competing at Nike Outdoor Nationals against some of the best athletes from across the country. Castaneda ran in the 400 meter championship division, finishing sixth overall in 54.53 seconds. She clocked in with the second-fastest time from Oregon, as Lake Oswego's Josie Donelson finished second. Castaneda's time was the fastest posted by a sophomore in the discipline. Her personal best of 54.17, which she ran at the Pacific Conference Championships on May 9, makes her the 13th-fastest sophomore in the country this season. Meanwhile, Duggan participated in the 400-meter hurdles, crossing in a personal best of 56.37, finishing 25th overall. He posted the second-fastest time from an Oregon runner, improving by over two seconds from his result in the event last year.
Our TV picks for Sunday, June 16: The 77th Annual Tony Awards; Naked and Afraid XL; Grantchester on Masterpiece
The 77th Annual Tony Awards KOIN 5 p.m. Ariana DeBose hosts this 77th annual tribute to all Broadway has to offer, including powerhouse categories such as Best Musical, Best Revival of a Play, Best Revival of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical, as well as various Best Performance categories. Naked and Afraid XL ...
Defendants will take Newberg school board case to the Court of Appeals
The Newberg-Dundee school district’s legal issues will continue for the foreseeable future, following word that one particular case will advance to a state court. Legal counsels for the district and the three former and one current conservative members of the school board indicated in early June their intent to take their case to the Court of Appeals. There, they will argue that Yamhill County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday erred...
Oregon still fixing state employee payroll system after problems last year
Auditors were unable to completely review Oregon’s new $21 million payroll and human services system that plagued thousands of state workers with inaccurate paychecks in early 2023, records show. The finding is contained within the Secretary of State’s statewide single audit, released the week of Monday, June 10, that looks at a variety of state government agencies and programs. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services implemented the payroll system, called...
More Oregon leaders react to U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion medicine
Oregon political leaders continued to react Friday, June 14, after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to mifepristone, a widely available abortion drug, earlier in the week. The decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh carefully sidestepped the issue of future court challenges to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone. The decision, released Thursday, only rules that the plaintiffs in this case — anti-abortion doctors — don’t have standing to sue because they do not prescribe the drug themselves. ...
Nurses will go on strike at Providence Newberg Medical Center next week
Newberg’s Providence Newberg Medical Center is among six Providence Health & Services facilities where nurses will go on strike next week. On June 7, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) delivered to Providence management a 10-day notice of their intent to strike at PNMC, a nonprofit entity, as well as Providence facilities in Portland, Oregon City, Medford, Hood River and Milwaukie. According to an ONA release, 3,000 nurses at the six...
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