Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project
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Kotek’s Gift to Trade Unions Contradicts ODOT’s Analysis

The Oregon Department of Transportation found that it will be costly and disproportionately hit rural Oregon
by Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project

Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order last month that will make highway projects more expensive, reduce bidding competition and benefit a relatively small number of workers — who happen to be strong supporters of hers — at the expense of many Oregonians. Who says so? Kotek’s own agency, the Oregon Department of Transportation. On […]

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Wyden Decided Against Protecting the Owyhee, and Now Oregonians May Not Get Another Chance Soon

A Republican president and Congress reduce the likelihood of success
by Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project

Dr. Julie Weikel, a retired large animal veterinarian, has been fighting to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in Southeastern Oregon for a long time. How long? “My daughter’s name is Owyhee, and she’s 43 years old,” she says. Weikel, 78, now lives about 30 miles south of Burns in Harney County but treated animals from all […]

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Empire For Sale

Dr. Robert Pamplin concedes he raided his employees’ pension fund. Properties all over Oregon will now be sold so he can pay back tens of millions of dollars.
by Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project

Efforts are underway, the Oregon Journalism Project has learned, to unwind one of the great timber fortunes in the state — at the order of the federal government. On Dec. 26, Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr., 83, settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve allegations he treated his company’s pension fund […]

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The Damned Deschutes

People who depend on an iconic Oregon river say a public utility is harming it.
by Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project

MAUPIN, Oregon — Alysia Littleleaf and her husband, Elke, make their living as fishing guides on the lower Deschutes River, near the Warm Springs Reservation. A major tributary of the Columbia River, the Deschutes irrigates farmland, generates electricity and is the lifeblood of Central Oregon’s biggest industry, tourism. The river and its high desert landscape […]

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