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Oregon lawmakers reluctantly make $17 million downpayment on wildfire preparedness Updated Jan 09, 2021; Posted Jan 09, 2021 The Riverside fire burns in the Mount Hood National Forest, seen from La Dee Flats near the Clackamas River.Mount Hood National Forest Facebook Share If anything illustrated the need for Oregon to invest more in wildfire preparedness, it was last year’s cluster of Labor Day infernos that chewed through a million acres of forestland, destroyed thousands of homes and structures and killed nine people. Despite scores of recommendations that the governor’s Council on ...

December 19, 2020 No. 1 Governor Kate Brown       Kate Brown made history when she became the first openly LGBT Governor in the country, but she quickly showed she wanted to be and would be more than a checkmark on the list of “firsts.” She became one of the state’s most active Governors as she promoted equal pay, vaccinations, and many other things which shouldn’t be partisan issues – although conservatives thought otherwise, trying and failing to recall her.      In 2020, Brown continued to take on the state’s biggest problems head on, shrug...

>> thank you very much. president trump will be leaving for california to see the wildfire damage firsthand. >> sarah westwood joins us from the white house. the president, he's been critical of california's handling of the wildfire response. his press secretary, sarah sanders, says he's going to be there to comfort. >> reporter: that's right, the president has repeatedly blamed california forest management for the fires. he's claimed that neglect created the conditions that's allowed the fires to spread so quickly. in a tweet last week the president even threatened to cut federal funding to...

Be life threatening every day, do not have health insurance. as temporary employees, these heroes have been considered ineligible for health coverage from the forest service. that's about to change. when president obama went to colorado springs last week to see the wildfire response there, he met with firefighters who told him about the health insurance problem for temporary firefighters. "the denver post" reports that when the president returned to washington, d.c. the following day, he told his cabinet he wanted to find a way to fix that problem, and now the president is fixing that problem....

Working incredibly dangerous jobs, under conditions that can be life threatening every day, do not have health insurance. as temporary employees, these heroes have been considered ineligible for health coverage from the forest service. that's about to change. when president obama went to colorado springs last week to see the wildfire response there, he met with firefighters who told him about the health insurance problem for temporary firefighters. "the denver post" reports that when the president returned to washington, d.c. the following day, he told his cabinet he wanted to find a way to fi...