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The commission also talked itself into participating in one more meeting. In the lone commission amendments to the $181 million budget that City Manager Mark Shepard introduced May 3, commissioners recommended Wednesday that the city target facilities with the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds it receives and that a further Budget Commission meeting be scheduled to discuss the issue. More than 100 members of the Republican party say there needs to be change.The group plans to release a statement Thursday that calls for reforms and threatens to create a new party if changes do not happen.T...

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Dramatically, the Corvallis City Council heard in a presentation at Monday’s virtual session. The annual monitoring report that university officials provide to the city shows just 21% of general on-campus spots were being used last fall. A total of 53% of the residence hall sports were used. In March, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary released two rescued baby beaver sisters to their nursery which has been specifically created to be a wild haven for the animals, after years of work and development. The pair, named Barbara and Twiggy by the public, have been in the sanctuary for a month now, and...

How an old Massachusetts policy kept people on health insurance A now-defunct policy in Massachusetts designed to protect people from losing their state-sponsored health care insurance due to lapsed payments worked well, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-authored by several Harvard researchers. The analysis found that the old state policy called “automatic retention” protected 14% of adults annually from losing health insurance coverage. Jose Figueroa, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard T.H. Chan Sc...

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