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Oregon In A Good Position To Compete For Federal Semiconductor Money, Legislators Hear
Oregon has nearly 15% of the nation's semiconductor employment, including 21,000 workers for Intel.

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Oregon has nearly 15% of the nation's semiconductor employment, including 21,000 workers for Intel.

For Idaho’s new superintendent of public instruction, private schools are a political quagmire.
41.2% of those surveyed said the state is on the wrong track, versus 44.1% who said the state is moving in the right direction.
Democrats continue their yearly effort to prohibit sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in state law.
When the Idaho Department of Lands auctioned off the island on Sept. 14, only one of the five parcels sold or even attracted a bidder.
The report's thesis is that Trump led a multipart scheme to overturn the election results that escalated until the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
The U.S. House voted Friday to approve a sweeping $1.7 trillion government spending package that carries along with new initiatives.
91 lobbyists were fined by the Idaho Secretary of State’s office for filing late reports, records obtained by the Idaho Capital Sun showed.
The Voces Internship of Idaho was established in 2022 by a group of Latinx journalists and Latinx community members.
The United States’ ceiling for female governors was shattered this week, with voters in 12 states electing women to the role.
The wording of the statute is almost identical to statutes several other states were passing to ban abortion around the same time.
“We mourn for the lives lost, and grieve with their loved ones and the entire Vandal community,” Boise State University said in a tweet.
“As you know, the situation in Florida is far more devastating,” Biden said. “We’re just beginning to see the scale of that destruction."
When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its fall term on Monday, a few things will be different.
Digital billboards are traveling around Moscow for the next week with various messages from a national nonprofit about reproductive health.
The HUD funding is of course just one step toward addressing rural homelessness in the U.S.
The governors of Montana, Alaska, Utah and Wyoming also signed the letter that was sent to the White House on Monday.
On Aug. 30, 12 school districts will be seeking voter approval for $261.4 million for a variety of education investments.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a ban on semi-automatic firearms on a near party-line vote.
The lawsuit seeks immediate, temporary restraining orders on the rules in the hopes of blocking them permanently.