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Families raising children in rural Oregon often have limited access to after-school activities that boost social skills, academic performance and safety.  Five in six children in Oregon could benefit from after-school programs but can’t access them because they are too expensive or far away, according to a survey from the Afterschool Alliance, a nationwide nonprofit. […]

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(The Center Square) – The United Kingdom will pay 25% more for new medications as part of a deal to avoid U.S. tariffs on Britain's drug exports to the U.S., a key step in President Donald Trump's push to get other nations to pay more for pharmaceuticals that he says U.S. consumers unfairly subsidize.

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Hood River County, which is in the midst of its own budget crisis, has proposed increasing the subsidy it pays to fund the regional jail, even though it would mean staff reductions at the county.