Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

if DOGE was actually interested in going after waste, fraud, and abuse, the Pentagon should have been its first stop newrepublic.com/article/191611…

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

Counties and schools in rural Oregon (and 40 other states) to lose millions in federal money in 2025 after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year to the state. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/23/u-s…

Great look from @jrlsilverman into one school district employee, and one mother's experience, getting 14-year old to school each day against challenges that include housing, work, financial, health and child care insecurity. oregonlive.com/education/2024…

A single father Gov. Tina Kotek met just before Thanksgiving is one of the thousands of Oregonians who found a temporary home in a Project Turnkey shelter as the state struggles to build enough permanent homes. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/09/ore…

This story is WILD: Mysterious takeover of 140-year-old rural Oregon news outlet by AI plagiarists, deployed by unknown source, warns of "online future supercharged by the next unregulated wave of technology from Silicon Valley companies may hold for news consumers."

After 5+ years of waiting for some, wildfire survivors across the West will be relieved of paying federal income taxes on recovery settlements and lawyer fees. The Senate passed the Disaster Tax Relief Act Weds. It awaits signature from Pres. Joe Biden oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/05/bil…

"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers." Read @propublica's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives. propublica.org/series/uncover…

The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to tsunami.gov for more information.

Portland General Electric is seeing massive demand from chip manufacturers, data centers since 2020, requiring PGE to buy more, and more expensive, energy, and spend on infrastructure. But those costs are coming down to all customers, CEO letter indicates. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/05/res…

Tsunami Warning 1 for areas of OR & N. CA: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M7.3 045mi SW Eureka, California 1044PST Dec 5

Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of the state known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” before he leaves office. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/03/gov…

Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win confirmed in a rural Woodburn-based House seat late Tuesday. #orleg #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/27/dem…

Oregon's U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is 'blowing the whistle' on the state's largest electric utility, scrutinizing the role of data centers in massive rate hikes for residential customers - more than 40% - in the last four years. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/25/sen…

“The antiquated notion that everything is printed out and placed in some physical ‘master file’ is completely made up in Mr. Zaitz’s head.” - @eoumountaineers attorney. Friday, I got the ordered access to these figments of my imagination. @SPJOregon @RCFP #Localjournalism

The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Oregon Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Oregon on Tuesday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/19/u-s…

.@GovTinaKotek vows to "protect Oregon values" as state stockpiles abortion drug oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/18/gov… #orpol

Democrat @bynum4thewin has now defeated Republican @LChavezDeRemer in electoral matchups three times in the past decade. The AP called #OR05 for Bynum this morning. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/14/dem… by @JMShumway

Wildfire survivors appeal to Congress to end federal income tax on settlements, lawyer fees @AlexBaumhardt @ORCapChronicle oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/14/wil…

APM story from 2018: Pete Hegseth had two separate affairs with co-workers during two marriages, did some nepotism while running a veteran's organization, spent a bunch of campaign funds on Christmas parties for family and friends apmreports.org/story/2018/03/…