By ANTHONY EFFINGER/Willamette Week Oregon finds itself near the top of another tragic list as the year ended. Oregon had the eighth-largest population of homeless people on a given night in […]
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Efforts to ban books in Oregon libraries on the rise; library patrons and supporters are pushing back
By AMANDA WALDROUPE/Oregon ArtsWatch In December the Grants Pass School District approved removing two books from the Grants Pass High School Library: All Boys Aren’t Blue – George M. Johnson’s memoir about […]
New report projects number of Oregon high school graduates will decline almost 20% by 2041
By ELIZABETH MILLER/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education has published an edition of “Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates,” every four years […]
Suspect in man’s 2022 disappearance jailed on corpse abuse charge
NEWPORT – An apparent suspect in the disappearance of a Newport car dealer three years ago is being held in the Lincoln County jail on $500,000 bail on accusations of […]
Lincoln County jobless rate stays at 4.8 percent in November
Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 4.8 percent in November, unchanged from October’s rate but half a percentage point higher than the year before and higher than Oregon’s […]