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After a city in his district temporarily shut down several of its parks because it couldn’t pay for their maintenance, a Democratic state lawmaker is proposing the Legislature create a fund that would provide small Oregon cities with emergency financial assistance to keep community spaces open.  Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, announced last week a plan […]

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Oregon’s employment rights agency is joining a coalition of states in opposing the federal government’s move to rescind a 60-year-old rule used to inform antidiscrimination practices in the workplace. Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries — alongside similar labor and human rights agencies from Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York […]