After letting funding lapse for nearly two years, Congress voted to renew crucial federal funding that rural counties and schools have counted on for a quarter century. The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday evening voted 399-5 to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act through September 2026, and to provide lapsed payments […]

Glen Szymoniak and a group of Klamath County students were excited this fall to get an invitation to meet with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol in Washington D.C. Szymoniak, superintendent of the Klamath County School District in southern Oregon, said he was told the Oct. 20 meeting would be a celebration of […]

Oregon has lost out on more than $48.6 million in federal money for rural roads, public services and schools since 2023 as Congress failed in the last year to renew a federal act that has sent billions to western states in the last 20 years. Most recently, Congressional Republicans failed to reauthorize the Secure Rural […]